Can you burn a dvd using a cd-rw drive?

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NeoDude86

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Ok I know it sounds rediculous to most of you but my father-in-law told me there was a program you could download to burn dvds using a cd-r burner with 52x or faster i don't know and honestly it's not something i even need but now i really wanna know if this is for real or if he's just messing with me
 
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As far as I know there isnt. You can make a Video CD. But I dont know of any program where you can burn a DVD disk on a CD burner.
 
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lawson_jl

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Your father in law is not correct there is no way a DVD can be burned in a CD burner. Maybe as the above poster thought he found a program to either make VCDs or burn avi's to a CD.
 
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NeoDude86

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thanks guys

i figured he was just blowing hot air he thinks he's the computer god or some crap and he keeps saying stupid stuff like that but your right i think he is just thinking of video cds thanks:D
 
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NeoDude86 said:
i figured he was just blowing hot air he thinks he's the computer god or some crap and he keeps saying stupid stuff like that but your right i think he is just thinking of video cds thanks:D
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This guy does not go by the nickname PC eye does he?
 
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pjtrucker

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Hello NeoDude86,

You cannot burn a DVD file with a CR-R burner. There is a DVD/CD-R burner, which only reads DVD files but cannot burn DVD files. Now, regarding your question - there is no way that we can burn DVDs into a CD-R burner.

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konsole

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The great thing about newer burner drives is they can handle all the past "similar" media. For instance blu-ray burners can read and write blu-rays, dvd's and cd's, while dvd burners can read and write dvd's and cd's. cd burners though can only read and write cd's.
 
diduknowthat

diduknowthat

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You can burn miniDVDs. They're basically DVD quality videos that can be played on most DVD players but with a CD. A single CD only has ~15 minute capacity though.
 
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