Which DVD Writer to make Backups?
 

I am looking to buy a DVD writer and I would like to make backups of retail DVD's. Which writer should I buy? I have a decent budget and would welcome advise from the experts. Thanks in advance for anyone kind enough to help.

i've bought the pioneer dvdr a03 he's good

hey M8,
How much was that pionner writer? (in £'s)

I am not to sure but isnt a DVD writer only capable of writing onto DVD Ram and not rom as if this is the case you would only be able to playback via a P.c and not a standalone unit.If I am wrong on this the price of a blank disc it would be cheaper to buy the original DVD

No..There is two types of DVD Back up storage device..
1.DVD-R Drive Example: Pioneer A03
with this it is quite possible make all your homemade DVD-R's to play back at the Any DVD players including PC interface version

2.DVD-Ram Drive
With this one it is only possible to play back only on the DVD-Ram Drive..DVD-Ram is sort of like a tape Drive where the DVD-r is Recordable like the
CD-R's..
Also DVD-R (A03) has capability to burn CD-R's and CD-RW as well on 8x equalvilent level for CDR and 4 x for CDRW's I believe..
It burns DVD-R's at 1x-2x and DVD-RW at 1x..