Munich  - Experts say there's no need to spend a lot of money on expensive programmes for burning CDs and DVDs given the wide range of free disc-burning software available on the market.

According to PC Professionell, a Munich-based magazine, there are plenty of free programmes available such as BurnAware, which is compatible with Microsoft's Windows 7 system and can also burn Blu-Ray discs.

It can also create ready-to-boot software and allows you to add data to already copied media. Another free programme with similar features is CDBurner XP.

Internet: www. burnaware. com/burnaware_free. html ; cdburnerxp. se/download. php) (dpa)