On Jan 16, 2006, at 13:54, Travis Roy wrote:
If you get a drive, make sure it supports "booktyping"
Basically it burns a DVD+RW disk as booktype "DVD-ROM" This lets you
play a video DVD in any commercial DVD drive, since it acts like a
"normal" DVD.
In case anyone else doesn't know what a booktype is:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/150
No wonder the DVDForum is so pissy about DVD+R!
Good info, Travis!
P.S. I got a $60 Philips DVD player from Best Buy and it plays almost
anything, including MPEG-4.
-Bill
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