What Can I Say But Your A Genious
What can I say but you're a genious & the only person on the planet Earth who can use DVD Shrink without any other software & make a back-up of Dark Water (the one with Jeniffer Conelly) even though it has arccos protection & DVD Shrink doesn't work with Arccos Protection.
On a DVD Computer Burner You Do, I Don't think so on Stand Alone
On a Computer DVD Burner you get 5.1 sound, assuming that's on the software program you use. I don't think you can get 5.1 sound on a stand alone DVD recorder, or at least I haven't seen one that does. For a Computer DVD burner (if you don't have an internal one, you can get an external one that you can attach by USB for a fairly low price), you need a basic comercial burning program like Nero (which also burns CD's) & a program such as DVD Shrink lets you record in 5.1 Programs like DVD Shrink also do the interactive menus etc. It's called Shrink because it will compress info more then 2 hours automatically into a 2 hour DVDR- people like NABsentia notice this- that wasn't meant as a put down but I don't notice the difference in the compressed sound or picture. You don't need compression if say you just want to back up say a 90 minute movie without the extras. Standalone DVD Recorders are for the most part alot bigger but convenient when you want to make DVDs from VCRsm DVRs & Camcorders. I have both. You can get a good external DVD Recorder new on Ebay with Nero or some other brands software between $75- $125 & a decent stand alone for $100-$150. I'd recommend getting warranties though because DVD Recorders break down like VCRs use too.