A few months ago (in March, to be exact), I wrote a post explaining how easy it was to convert one's personal VHS collection to DVD using a fully functional TV tuner, as well as a laptop with a DVD burner. Well, a few months ago, without any warning, my laptop's DVD burner decided to quit finalizing discs.
This unfortunate event has put the entire process on hold, which hasn't bothered my brother or Emily (they're the ones I was doing it for). However, the fact that I am left stranded with just extra blank discs and nothing to burn them with (I offered to complete the project if I could borrow one of theirs -- they were okay with holding out) has felt, to say the least, frustrating.
To remedy the situation, I looked in to different options, from external burners, to new laptops, to an internal model or two that seems as though one of them would fit my current Dell desktop computer, and the price(s) were affordable, so I seriously took the options into consideration, especially considering that it would be much less expensive to add an additional piece to a desktop than to purchase an entirely new computer and it would also be less time consuming because it would be less time consuming for me to install compatible hardware inside an existing machine than to learn an entirely new operating system.
Needless to say, I am sitting at square one right now weighing my options for the DVD burning process.
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