LIteon DVD player/recorder Xmas gift

Hi everyone and Merry Xmas
I hope someone can help me.
I got for Xmas a Liteon DVD Player/Recorder Model #LVW-5115GHC for my TV
I have everything hooked up, cables everywhere, TV & a VCR & a Cable Box.
I figured out finally, how to transfer a home movie from my camcorder to a
disk.
I also finally figured out how to transfer a home movie from my VHS tapes to
a disk. I have been working on it for 3 days.
My question is... I want to make dvd copies of all my home movies for each
of my 4 kids and of course for me too!
I am not sure what media to use, my player says that I can use them all.
But I don't want to do all this work and then find out that some people
won't be able to watch it on their tv.
It came with a DVD+RW blank, so I practiced on it and took it to one of my
son's and it played on his tv.
What media should I use DVD+R or DVD+RW?
Also in the manual it talks about finalizing & fomating disks, what and when
would I do that?
I also want to be able to put as many VHS tapes on one disk as I can so that
I don't have to be using a million disks.
sorry about the rambling, but just wanted to make sure that I gave as much
info as possible.
Thanks in advance and will await your replies before I buy any disks.

Ninip

"Ninip" <> wrote in message
news:Tw3tf.210610$ki.34756@pd7tw2no...
> Hi everyone and Merry Xmas
> I hope someone can help me.
> I got for Xmas a Liteon DVD Player/Recorder Model #LVW-5115GHC for my TV
> I have everything hooked up, cables everywhere, TV & a VCR & a Cable Box.
> I figured out finally, how to transfer a home movie from my camcorder to a
> disk.
> I also finally figured out how to transfer a home movie from my VHS tapes
> to a disk. I have been working on it for 3 days.
> My question is... I want to make dvd copies of all my home movies for each
> of my 4 kids and of course for me too!
> I am not sure what media to use, my player says that I can use them all.
> But I don't want to do all this work and then find out that some people
> won't be able to watch it on their tv.
> It came with a DVD+RW blank, so I practiced on it and took it to one of my
> son's and it played on his tv.
> What media should I use DVD+R or DVD+RW?
> Also in the manual it talks about finalizing & fomating disks, what and
> when would I do that?
> I also want to be able to put as many VHS tapes on one disk as I can so
> that I don't have to be using a million disks.
> sorry about the rambling, but just wanted to make sure that I gave as much
> info as possible.
> Thanks in advance and will await your replies before I buy any disks.

To be on the safe side you would want to use DVD-R, DVD+R shouldn't be a
problem either but DVD-R is the way to go IMHO.

Finalizing should be done in the players after you recorded all the video
you want on that disc.


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