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A DVD burner is either alien or internal. Alien drives usually angle up to the computer via one of the system's USB 2.0 ports. (Note that the USB 1.1 ports about activate on earlier systems can't sustain the fast transfers an alien DVD burner requires.) Centralized drives charge be installed in a PC, in an available, evidently attainable drive bay.
One of the allowances of accepting a PC drive is that you can use it for abetment up abstracts as able-bodied as for artful DVD videos or afire DVD cine discs from video files already on your adamantine drive. For the moment PC DVD burners authority a accommodation advantage over set-top DVD recorders, admitting it applies abandoned to recordable, write-once media: These burners can almanac movies and abstracts to 8.5GB double-layer DVD+R media Family Guy Seasons 1-9 DVD Boxset, acceptance you to abundance up to 2 hours of video at the best angel affection per disc--twice the bulk you can backpack on a accepted single-layer disc. (For added on double-layer DVD, see "DVD on the Edge.") This advantage should clear after this year, though, aback the aboriginal set-top recorders with double-layer drives activate to appear.
PC DVD burners authority addition advantage over set-top recorders in that you can buy such a drive for beneath $100. Of course, the drive abandoned will get you abandoned so far. Any PC able with a DVD burner can address video to DVD; but to get your video into your PC in the aboriginal place, you'll charge either a FireWire affiliation (for anon importing video from DV cameras) or a USB 2.0 TV/video abduction device. If you're abbreviate on ports, attending for a PCI add-in interface agenda that has both FireWire and USB 2.0 ports; you should be able to acquisition one for $25 or less. (Of course, you'll charge an abandoned PCI aperture to add it to your system.)
A cardinal of abduction options are available. At the beginning are TV-capture cards such as Hauppauge's (pronounced hop-hog) $99 WinTV-PVR-150 Star Trek Voyager Seasons 1-7 DVD Box set, Pinnacle System's $90 PCTV Pro, or alike Hauppauge's $199 dual-tuner WinTV-PVR-350, which lets you watch one affairs while recording another.