dvd burner

[Matamata]

What do I require to burn photos and videos to disc. I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 series laptop.

[Fay Mousse]

Assuming your laptop doesn't have a dvd writer, you need something like this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130748

You can burn your photos to cd, with the equipment you already have, but that is not satisfactory for video.

[vehelpfulguy]

I also have a Thinkpad R31.

You need two things:

Hardware: A CD-writer or DVD-writer. You may have one of these already built into the laptop case.

Obviously a CD writer can only write CDs (up to 700 Mb) whereas DVD writer can write to DVDs (up to 4.7 Gb)

Software: You need some CD or DVD writing software. My R31 came with a program called Record Now which is very basic.

You need something like Nero or Roxio which have more features.

Once you have your CD/DVD writer, and CD/DVD writing software, you are ready to go.

[ACtheTROLL]

the burner goes without saying ... (or it should ....!)

vista and XP will both burn directly to disc without needing ant extra software
the best way is just bung it all in a folder select the folder ...
this isn't a bad run-through

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup /learnmore/bott_03september16.mspx

and if you want a simple free burner
http://www.imgburn.com/ is a good start