Hello,

I want to burn some video, music, and photos to a disc; exposing my ignorance to the TV multitudes I have a question. What is the difference beside capacity between the two formats? Are the CD-R discs for music, photo files, and text storage, and the DVD-R just for recording video? Tried looking it up cannot find the answer to my question.

Thanks in advance,

-O

CD R = about 650-700MB depending on type

DVD R + about 4.7GB (or 9GB on a dual layer [dashed expensive] disk)

You can put whatever you like on either. Special formats of CD (to make VCD) and DVD (to make DVD Video) will play in your DVD/VCD player otherwise they behave just like a (slow) write-only disk drive.

My car CD player plays mp3's so I record BBC radio off the web and listen to it in the motor. It really depends upon exactly what you want to do, if nothing else you can make backups of your important data for when your hard drive fails.