Thank you for the information. I will look for my Sony DVD Manual. In the DVD Flik Guide and while burning the DVD it told me that I should do it during the night or at a time when I am not home. It did say I could continue to use my computer however. But it did say:
How long the encoding takes is very much dependant on the speed of your CPU, and the harddrive that the project's destination folder is on. It's best to let your PC do this during the night, or during a very long coffee break.
So as you say my Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop Intel ® Pentium ® M Processor 150 GHz 598 MHz 2GB RAM must have a slow CPU because it took 20 hrs. to burn. But it DID a terriffic job! We started to watch it and were all excited and guess what? I downloaded one in French with no subtitles. LOL! So now we are going to try playing it from the laptop using the cord from the flat screen TV and see if we can get the settings right. Last time we did it even with external speakers we could barely hear it. It might have been the quality of the movie itself however. So many variables aren't there?
Antoinette