Sheila, I spoke to my son and he is bringing a DVD player and hooking it up for me this weekend. If I know my son, it will have bells and whistles...LOL but like you, I doubt I'd ever use the recording feature. He recently brought over a Samsung cellphone with camera, text and image etc. when all we wanted was a simple device to carry into garden with us for emergencies like our old cellphone. But it-IS-lighterweight and so tiny. So now I'll be set to enjoy Lilo's film and then join Netflix. I watched Michael Apted's documentary "49 Up" on PBS last evening. Want to go back and rewatch the "7Up" and others again. What a thought-provoking series! Andie..Brideshead Revisited is another I'd love to see again! I'm not familiar with Acorn and Signal catalogs...do they have online sites? You all have been so helpful...Thanks so much. josh

Neat, I bought the 1GB model for my Girlfriend for her MP3's and pictures of our kids... how do you like yours? I have heard that movies.aol.com is giving away movie downloads I have not tried it yet. NBC.com has tons of episodes for free download, apple.com has tons as well, but they may not work on a competetors equipment... why would it not be OK to download your own movies? oh, perhaps you meant dvd/vhs storebought movies...Hmm, I belive it is legal, as long as you do not remove any incription. John

A quick note to say that DVDflick worked. I got the video's made - just in a nick of time (bc. I have a full day conference tomorrow). Now my daughter can bring her friend the videos (and scrapbook). DVDflick was amazingly easy compared to other things I tried. Once on the program, I printed the 6 page guide - which explained most of what I needed to know. Two things I had to figure out myself - and am posting here for others who may try this. 1 - on the Configure your Project tab, there are settings for video. If you want to change the resolution/file size (as I did to fit a 45 minute video on a standard dvd), you can adjust the bit rate). 2 - I would recommend on the burning settings (also under configure your project tab), choose to have it burn it to dvd, and verify, and eject. The first dvd I made I only selected burn it and verify. It burned it - ejected, reinserted and played it. But then the dvd tray was locked and couldn't be opened. This is somewhat frequent occurence with disc burning software - which wants to prevent you from accidentally opening the tray before it's done. The only way I could open the tray was to shut the computer, and hit the open disk tray button as it was rebooting. The next video I made, I selected eject when done - and it ejected it. For a while I thought the tray was broken - and tried the usual methods to release - like the paper clip in the tiny hole near the tray. And going to my computer, d:, eject disk. Nothing worked bc. the software was preventing it. Once my disk was ejected - and the software closed, the open and close tray works fine with other programs. Thanks so much. This was a great program. Just curious if convertxtodvd would get me additional features. I can see burning many dvd's for people (we seem to be the videographers of many social gatherings and I'd like to give dvd's to people who were part of the plans). DVDflick worked great - but I don't mind paying a little if it gets me more features. Any thoughts? Thanks so much. You saved me. Lynn.

I burn Windows Movie Maker projects to DVD all the time. Under Step 3, I choose: SAVE TO MY COMPTUER. In the next window I type in the title of the movie and select it to save under MY VIDEOS. In the next window (MOVIE SETTINGS) I choose OTHER SETTINGS, and I select HIGH QUALITY (NTSC). After the movie has saved, I open up Roxio's DVD builder. I am using an older version, so it may be called something else in your version. I then import the Windows Movie Maker video file and add that to the DVD. You can add more than one WMM project to the DVD or just the one you have. I can answer any other questions if this doesn't make sense.