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Welcome to VCD Burner!
In this site we will provide you with information on VCD burners and all other aspects that are related to the product. Our aim is to educate you about the advantages of VCD burners. This includes its history, key components and functionality.
What is a VCD Burner?
A VCD burner is basically a disk drive. A disk drive is a device that allows your computer to read CD’s that are inserted. The only difference of a burner from a normal disk drive is that VCD burners have the ability to copy files that are saved from the computer’s hard drive such as movies and music and be duplicated into a blank cd that is inserted in your burner. In short, this is a device we use to copy files to and from cd’s. Burner’s replaced the old device called floppy disk drives although their function is almost the same.
How does it work?
This type of technology uses laser light or electromagnetic waves, this laser light is near the light spectrum. These laser lights are the one that gives burners the ability to process data reading and writing to and from compact discs. It is done by selective heating of the organic dye layer with lasers. The laser creates marks on the CD. The marks is where the files are put in. VCD burners are also called writers. Below are the common types that burners use to do its functions;
- Compact Discs or Cd-r
- DVD’s, DVD-r or DVD+r
- Blu – ray discs or BD-r
History
The VCD burners of today evolved from the invention of laser disks. Laser disk was first seen in 1972. It was a 12 inch video disk. Everything were analog back then that laser disks were read like that of cassette tapes. 1975 was the year where the compact discs that we see today were first used and it was in audio form. The first burner was invented in 1987 by Sony and the rest is history.
How to use it?
All VCD burners are relatively the same; they only differ in the speed rate of copying or ripping files. What matters in this process is the software you use. There are burning softwares out in the market that are easy to use. Some have a lot of functions and some have few. Its best to choose what type of burning software will suit your needs. The softwares are the ones that control your VCD burner. CD burning software have the capability to encode your files into a VCD format. Let us say you are about to burn a movie. There are some cases where you need to convert you movies file type since most VCD burners are compatible with the MPEG format. After that, everything will be relied on the software you will use. Instructions in most software are easy to follow and they are step by step so all you need to do is read carefully and that’s it.
Future pages
Once all the content of this site is complete, we will be able to provide you the softwares that are used in burning cd’s and have links to the freewares you can download online as well as list down the best burners in the market today. Also we would like you to be educated about the future of VCD burners.