Plextor does make amazing burners man I had a cd burner for it before i got the DVD burner.

However I'd wait on the dual layer, as per the example Doug gave.

 

Not really sure the the cost on dvd9 media but for now cost wise it's more efficient to run just single layer give it a few months yet before jumping out they only just came out like 2 months ago or so. Yo don't want to be the test animal on it and find out ur making more coaster then backups, also just out the reviews on the net first see what majority of people are saying.

 

Dvd Shrink and ur good to go, you can do the whole movie or for best quality you can do just the main movie which will give less compression therefore making the quality better. It does everything pretty much in 1 click provided u have a dvd rom and a dvd burner once you click backup it does it's encoding then starts to burn the movie and that's it. When you do get a chance to burn your "backup" it's recommended to use +r for movies and -R for data backups. I am not 100% sure but it was something to the affect that +R use more of the disk to burn, where as -R burns every other space or something.

 

dvd-r negatives work best i read

 

dvd+r are the better for movies and -R for data back up.

 

One thing is clear though - none of the DVD recording formats existing today are perfect, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. DVD-R/RW are cheaper and has the fastest burning speed (4x - unmatched for the time being), while DVD+R/RW employ better technology. It's hard to foresee which format will be the final DVD recording format (although at this time, you can pretty much rule out DVD-RAM as a DVD video recording format).


That was take from http://www.dvdr-digest.com/articles/17_6.html


here is the article about the way the +r -r is burned compared to each other.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113

[ November 14, 2004, 03:45 AM: Message edited by: ChizzerZ24 ]