I have a question about recording with a DVD Recorder/VHS Combo?

Question

I want to purchase one of the DVD Recorders with a VCR as well. My question is about recording. I noticed the DVDs that you can buy to record on are good for recording 2-6 hours on. I want to know if anyone happens to know if you can record a movie onto the dvd then go back later and record another movie on that dvd as well.

For example can I burn Gone with the Wind on Monday then on Wednesday use that same dvd and record The Godfather?

Cause I notice when I burn songs onto a cd all the songs have to be burned at that same time or my computer will tell me that cd is not a clean disk (unless theres a way around that too that I dont know of).

Thanks!

Answer 1

When you are burning a CD, your program should a choice as to whether you want to finalize the CD. Most are set to do that by default. When you finalize a CD, it writes the directory of all the files, and then closes the CD so it can no longer be written to. If you do not finalize the CD, you can continue to write files to it, but as it does not yet have a directory written, you can not use or see the files on it until it is finalize.

So if you put GWTW on the disk on Monday, but did not close it until after GF on Wednesday, you could not watch GWTW on Tuesday before it disk is closed.

While i have never tried it on a DVD (don't have a burner), since you use the same software for burning either a CD or a DVD, I would guess that you could also leave a DVD open and un-finalized.