Best Blank Discs for Burning: DVD-R, DVD+R DL and BD-R Explained This page contains affiliate links — see our Affiliate Disclosure. Blank discs look interchangeable and are not. Picking the wrong format gives you a disc your player cannot read or a project that does not fit; picking poor-quality media gives you a burn that…
Best External USB DVD & Blu-ray Drives for Laptops Without a Disc Drive This page contains affiliate links — see our Affiliate Disclosure. Most modern laptops have no optical drive at all, which turns a simple job — installing from a disc, ripping a CD, burning a backup DVD — into a problem. An external…
Back Up Files to a Dual-Layer DVD (8.5 GB) A single-layer DVD holds about 4.7 GB — enough for documents and modest photo sets, but quickly outgrown by video projects, disk images and years of accumulated files. A dual-layer DVD holds about 8.5 GB, nearly twice as much, on one disc. InfraRecorder 0.53 supports dual-layer…
Make an MP3 CD for the Car with InfraRecorder An MP3 CD is the simplest way to carry a lot of music in an older car: instead of the roughly one album that fits on a normal audio CD, a single disc can hold many hours of MP3 files. InfraRecorder 0.53 can burn one in…
Archive Family Photos to DVD Safely Burning family photos to DVD is still a reasonable way to make a physical, offline copy of memories — a disc in a drawer cannot be deleted by a sync error or locked behind a forgotten password. But it only works as an archive if you are honest about…
Burn a Windows Installer ISO to DVD with InfraRecorder A Windows installer ISO is a complete, bootable disc image: burn it to a DVD correctly and the disc can start a PC and install or repair Windows. InfraRecorder 0.53 — the final release, from 2012 — can do this job, because it writes ISO images…
