What kind of burnable CDs/DVDs should I get?

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Hi. I use a lot of CDs to burn music and also would like to burn DVDs from video I downloaded off the Internet. Idk what kind to buy so I need some help. I usually use CD-R to burn music from itunes and they work fine but they only have about 80 mins storage on them. I would like more. And I also download videos of concerts off YouTube onto iTunes but DVD-R and DVD-RW don't seem to work. I was wondering if in this modern age there are some discs that can do both and offer more storage, say 120 minutes. Anybody know what CDs/DVDs would work? Even if there aren't discs that can do both I would still like to know which kinds will work.

spacemissing · Answer

A CD is a CD, and a DVD is a DVD.
There is no type of disc that can be used as both.

You could make MP3 CDs with many, 
many hours of music on each one, 
but a large percentage CD players won't read them, 
so don't just jump into doing this;
make sure of the player's capabilities first.

An interesting option, not often used, 
is to record only audio on a DVD.
Depending on the method used for recording, 
this may provide up to 8 hours of play time per disc.

If it was recorded as a normal "video DVD", 
there would be no quality vs time trade-off,
because all consumer-recorded DVDs 
have 256 kb Dolby Digital stereo sound
regardless of the video quality.

Of course, these can't be used in a CD player.

The reasons for your failed attempts with DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs 
could be due to any of a large number of factors,
including two very common ones:
failure to finalize and/or wrong file format.

Only by carefully and logically examining 
the details of exactly what you did
can the exact reason be discovered.

Local help should be obtained.

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