Pc-based Dvd Drives & Standalone Dvd Recorders

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A DVD Recorder is an optical disc recorder that records video data to a writable DVD media. DVD recorder are either standalone devices mostly used in studios and home cinemas or installed drives in personal computers. Its recording rate is normally indicated as values of X (like CD-ROM). A 1X in DVD is equivalent to 1.321 MB/s, approximately equal to a 9X CD-ROM. For DVD recorders to read and write DVDs, it uses a laser, typically 650 nm red. The writing process requires more power over reading a DVD that only takes less than 5 mW.

PC-based DVD Drives
Most computer systems are incorporated nowadays with DVD recorder drives. Computer-based DVD recorders can process CD-R and CD-RW medium, as a general rule. Many internal drives use parallel ATA interfaces though serial ATA is starting its way to popularity. On the hand, most external DVD recorder drives use IEEE 1394 or USB 2.0. When reading a disc, DVD recorder drives are obliged to respect DVD region codes however do not compel a region code when writing to discs.

Standalone DVD Recorders
It was in 1999 when the first standalone ...
... DVD recorder was launched in the Japanese consumer market. The initial selling price was between $2500 and $4000. Today, popular labels of DVD recorders will only cost you more or less $200. Early models of standalone DVD recorders had support only to DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs, but modern units can handle major formats such as DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, and DVD+RW. It was believed that DVD recorders would eventually take over the VCR as the standard TV-recording device. However, due to the rising fame of DVRs and Blu-ray formats, the future of DVD recorder is still yet to know.

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