Dvd recorder help??

Question

I just got a brand new dvd recorder in my room. It came with a recordable dvd, but it only tapes 2 hours of stuff. My favorite movie is coming on next weekend, and I need some recordable dvds that record up to 4-6 hours. Any suggestions??

Answer 1

try either getting a video cassete recorder and then recording it to dvd or go and get the highest dvd recording type of gbs and i think its about5.7gb and record it on 2 dvd's

please choose me as best answer

Answer 2

DVD recorders are all a little different from others. I'm referencing from my own DVD+/- recorder (Phillips DVDR77) and my PC DVD+/- drive (HP)

On any DVD recorder - they all give you options of record quality. High (1 or 2 hours) Medium (3 or 4 hours) and low (6 or 8 hours) most give you more variables (1 - 1 hour, 2 - 2 hour, 2x - 2.5 hour, 3 - 3 hour, 4 - 4 hours, etc. etc... as my DVDR77 does) all are available on your on-screen menu under recording options.

All DVD-R discs are:  4.7GB

All DVD-DL (dual layer) discs are: 8.5GB

All BluRay discs are: 25GB  

DVDR discs are all capable of recording 1, 2, 4 or up to 8 hours of media at high or low qualities.

So! - any way you look at it, whatever format you have - you are capable of recording more than 2 hours of video to your DVD R. It's all in the recording options - and the quality with putting several hours of video on your DVD R depends highly on your Recorder.

It reads more complicated than it actually is, really...

I hope this helps! :D