How to Burn CinemaNow Movies to DVD

"I bought Sex and the City and bought a digital copy through Cinema Now. The card says I can copy onto a DVD but I can not figure out how to get it from the desktop to a DVD."

There are two possible solutions to your problem, depending on what kind of DVD you are allowed to burn with your CinemaNow purchase. Some CinemaNow purchases allow you to make a backup copy to DVD, which is just a digital copy of the file you downloaded to your hard drive. In this case, you'll burn a data DVD, either using Windows Media Player 11 or your favorite DVD burning application. If your purchase allows you to burn a DVD capable of being played in a set top DVD player, things get more complicated (and more expensive).

If your option is to burn a backup copy of the file, I highly recommend downloading the freeware application ImgBurn. With a blank DVD in your DVD burner, you simply add the CinemaNow file to your DVD burning project in ImgBurn and create a burned disk. This disk will not play in your set top DVD player, but you will have a copy of the file in case your hard drive crashes or you need to free up additional space.

If your purchase allows you to burn a DVD playable in standard set top DVD players, you need a special burner to make it work. CinemaNow support indicates you must purchase a Dell Qflix DVD Burner in order to burn the movies to disk. So to play the movie in your home theater you'll first have to shell out $120 on a burner. Unless you plan to buy many videos from CinemaNow, you might be better off jumping through a few hoops to connect your computer to your television instead.