Dvd Recorder

A DVD recorder, also known as DVD recorder, DVD recorder or DVD burner, is an electronic device able to read and write to a DVD. There are basically two types of DVD recorder, Freeview tuners that can record the channel tuned to a DVD, DVD recorders and computer drives are reading / DVD recorders for the PC. Once the data recorded on the DVD, the content can be read on any DVD player.

Features

A DVD recorder can record on DVD (Digital Versatile Disc, Digital Versatile Disc), the optical storage device that replaced the VHS video and CD audio and data. The capacity of a DVD is about 4.7 GB, about 7 times a CD and DVD player needs to read its contents.

Although there are several formats for recording / DVD rewrite with different features and requirements (DVD-R, DVD + R, DVD-RAM), usually the DVD recorder usually compatible with all recording formats as both recordable / rewritable .

Regarding the backwards compatibility, the DVD recorder is usually backwards compatible with the definition CD, so you can play and also in CD format. Also, the Blu-ray successor to DVD format, are backwards compatible with CD and DVD, so that read and write both formats in addition to Blu-ray.

Type

There are several types of devices that have the functionality of DVD recorder:

Freeview DVD recorder, a recorder is Freeview TV tuner that can record in digital received signal and can use different storage media at the time of recording the tuned channel. The most used, not mutually exclusive, are the internal hard drive, DVD, memory card or USB device (external hard drive or USB stick). The DVB-T recorder represents the era of digital television equivalent role that of the VHS video recorder in the era of analog television. Initially developed the DVD recorder and then the hard disk recorders, either alone or accompanied by DVD. The presence of DVD has the advantage of being able to read and record DVD-Video directly, without relying on a computer to format conversion.

DVD burner for computer: a DVD recorder drive computer is a reader / writer installed on a PC, and allows read and write data to DVD. Internal drives can be installed in a 5.25-inch bay, or external USB or generally FireWire.Son widely used in computers to read multimedia and software distributed on optical discs, and burn discs for transport and backup of data. Along with flash memory drives CD / DVD have displaced floppy and tape drives.

Blu-ray: the same way that the DVD recorder has backwards compatibility with CD definition, usually Blu-ray recorders also record DVDs. Source: DVD recorder