> From: "A.Tuazon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "G-List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:49:12 -0500 > To: "G-List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: DVD-R or DVD+R > > on 12/21/04 8:32 PM, Katherine Zysk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is the difference between -R and +R DVD disks? >> >> How do you know which to buy? >> >> Thanks, >> Kathi >> > > It depends on your burner. It used to be that DVD burners used either DVD-R > or DVD+R discs only. Nowadays, most burners can burn both but usually the > DVD-R are rated at a slower burn rate than the DVD+R (though this fact is > also becoming rare as more and more burners are coming out with the same > burn rate in both + and -). Usually most commercial DVD players can play > either disk. Apple has been notorious for ONLY supporting DVD-R's though > Toast can burn in either format. As to the actual difference between the > two, I haven't the foggiest idea. > > > Here's my 2 cents. DVD-R's have a 90% compatibility rate in all DVD players. DVD+R has a 80% rate. So my advice to ANY one is use DVD-R for movies and DATA, and use DVD+RW for reusable data. I have ran across DVD players that will not use + discs but had a perfect rate with -R discs, I tried them in several players including friends machines. +RW are even worse! So only use DVD-R for movies. In fact there is not even an advantage that a consumer can really take with a +R disc any way. Its the +RW that have the advantage over -RW discs. +RW work like a floppy or hard disc, you can change files and erase bits of data at a time, -RW you have to start all over like a CD-RW would.
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