Burning the (DVD) Discs - Intro

I've had a computer for years and burning CD and DVD discs is pretty much a trivial, everyday task for me. I know how to burn a DVD - but it wasn't always like that. It started a long time ago - I can't really remember when - with sharing small games and pop-music of dubious quality. I had an old & quirky CD-ROM that looked like it was going to fall apart but worked surprisingly well (I think it's still somewhere in one of my desk drawers and it might even be in usable condition). Then I had two CD drives which was kind of cool and mostly useless at the same time :) ....

Erm, anyway. At the "good old days" (some 5 years ago that is) learning to burn CDs was a trial-and-error stuff for me. It can be similar with DVDs nowadays since it can be very hard to find both simple and effective instructions on how to burn DVD movies and other exciting multimedia stuff.

Therefore, I intend to post some useful tutorials to make someone's life a bit easier :)