Finally bought an HP

Well I finally bought my laptop, and my decision couldn't have been made with out the help of this site. After reading several reviews, and keeping in my the opinions of fellow posters, kind enough to answer my questions I settled on the HP DV6000. I couldn't be happier with the purchase, and I have only hit the tip of the iceberg on exploring all it has to offer. Now off to figure out how to burn a dvd.

 

HP provide Roxio DVD burning software ;D

 

Congrats on your purchase. The dv6000 is a very good all-round notebook.

 

OK see now I have a question, after trying, how does one burn a dvd? I though you would just put the dvd in media player and rip it, similar to a cd, but apparently that is not the case. Do I need to download special software?

 

As mentioned HP provide the software. Either you have Roxio or Sonic or something else similar (mine has Sonic My DVD plus). Can you tell us the exact steps you took, what you are trying to burn and if and what is the error message that shows?

 

I'll have to play around with it more. to see what is going on and come back with more details.

 

Pretty sure you need a DVD decryption program to rip DVDs onto your laptop. Not sure roxio or Sonic have that functionality.

 

so you wanna rip a dvd? use dvd decryptor. it can also burn the dvd after ripping it onto your drive

 

You'll have to be more specific. what are you trying to burn? If its a movie, you will need to create an image of the movie on your hard drive first, then burn it to dvd.

You pop the DVD into the drive, and then must decide if you want to make a copy onto a Dual Layer DVD or a single layer DVD. if its the latter, you will need a program like DVD Shrink. it compresses the much larger DVD Dual Layer movie, to be able to fit onto a single Layer DVD.

If youre making a straight 1 to 1 copy, DVD decrypter is the absolute best software for burning and making images. it breaks the dvd's protection and allows for a direct copy.

Google dvd burning for good tutorials.