Burning QuickTime files to DVD--help!

Hi--I use my Kodak camera to take QuickTime video. I've got all of my videos edited and saved onto CDs, so there is no problem viewing them from my computer using the QuickTime player.
I'd like to burn these to DVD to share with family. I've downloaded a couple of freeware programs that convert them to .VOB files without any problem (winavi and dvdsanta both seemed to do the job just fine).
So...can anyone recommend a good, cheap DVD burner so I can burn the files? Also, the whole +/- RW thing is a mystery to me. I'm afraid that I'll end up buying a burner, only to make DVDs that don't play on my TV (this has already happened to a friend of mine.) How do I know what format to use?
If anyone can advise I'd be very grateful. Thank you!!

I'm fairly sure that a bootable DVD has to be specially constructed for this purpose, as is the case for a Mac OS X install disc and for various commercial products. You can't just install OS X onto a partition, clone an image of it and burn the image to a DVD, and then successfully boot from the DVD. When a "normal" version of OS X boots, it needs to write to its startup volume to create needed caches, swap files, configuration files, etc. It could not do so if the startup volume is read-only, as would be the case for a DVD.

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