I'm buying a 1.8 GHZ Pentium M laptop that does not have a DVD recorder.

Can I copy movies using DVD Shrink and write to an external DVD recorder
connected with USB?

What's the least expensive DVD writing program that can do this effectively?

Thanks, Allen

Carol and Allen Bredt wrote:
DVD Shrink directly, so that would seem a good choice.

"Carol and Allen Bredt" <abredt22@Xsocal.rr.com> wrote in message
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I use a laptop with a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 and a Firewire/USB 2 external
burner. My burner is an LG that I bought at Sam's Club for $129. Mine is
dual layer and rated 16x for -+R and 8x for -+RW so there are cheaper
external burners. I use Nero Express OEM version that came with my burner.

I have used DVD Shrink/Nero to write burn DVDs from files on my USB 2
external HD to my USB 2 external burner. Works just fine.

My laptop has an internal DVD reader, but it is designed to play DVDs at 1x
and really slows things down if I try to use it to copy a DVD. It is faster
for me to copy the DVD to my HD and then burn the copy.

Ron