Okay, here's what I have so far.

I have a Desktop, windows xp, HP Media Center, with all bells and whistles (which I've never used, but I want to start). New Mother board, new ram. Everything works fine.

I also have a Lightscribe DVD +- Writer/CD-Writer (I have no idea what this means).

I have a CD rom drive too.

Now separately from all this I have a portable dvd player. It's an Audiovox D1730. I have the battery pack and I have the electric plug thing. It works fine.

What I want to do is make a video using my webcam, put it on a dvd thing, and then take the dvd thing out of my computer, put it in my audiovox, bring it over to my friend and show her the dvd.

There is no computer in her house, she's an elderly woman, she doesn't get out much and I want to share my videos with her.

So let's say I have my vidoes on my hard drive (my sprouting videos for example), and I want to transfer them to a dvd thing.

The only discs I have in my house are over 5 years old.

They are blank Memorex CD-RW Platimum 650 mb 74 min things
On the front it says 2x 4x rewrite speed (????)

Can I use this Memorex thing to copy my videos and then once they are copied to the Memorex, can I put the memorex in my Audiovox and show my friend.

I don't know DVD from CD and This Memorex says CD-RW

Do I need to buy a DVD thing? Do they have this? I have absolutely no clue what to do.

I really want to put my videos (or any videos for that matter), onto a disc (I think this is called burning???) and play them on my portable dvd player.

This way my friend can see what's happening in the world. She really would get a kick out of this.

Thanks if you can advise.

Melody

P.S. I also have a question about the new 3D tv's that are coming out but I'll wait to post that. It's a doozy of a question