On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I alluded to this in my description of DVD-R. Thank you for correcting >> my description of implementation details, though. (Obviously, you >> don't need a special burner, but you do need to buy specially-licensed >> media.) > > Well, if you manage to get unwritten DVD- media, you need a drive with special > firmware and you even can pretend a different manufacturer ;-) > > It is however hard to get this special firmware... > > >> >> When in doubt, go with DVD+R. >> > >> > This is a wrong advise: When In doubt go DVD- as this is the official >> > format. >> >> I don't understand this position at all for this context. Unless >> you're doing work in particular fields for the recording industry, why >> touch DVD-R at all? Doing so because "it's the official format" >> doesn't really mean anything; the industry and market has been stable >> for years, and upstream isn't going to switch out everything out from >> under people using the format. (At least, not in a way that doesn't >> screw over DVD-R users as well.) > > You seem to be anti-DVD- because you uncorrectly believe that it is related to > the film industry. You are wrong. Pioneer asked the fil industry to make a > useful proposal before Summer 2001 and as this proposal was not made, Pioneer > started to sell the A03 for 1000 US $ - together with the prerecorded media > format.
No, I'm not anti-DVD-, or even anti-film-industry. I recommend DVD+ over DVD- for the uninitiated, for compatibility and flexibility reasons. > >> I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong in that perhaps DVD-R might be >> the more appropriate format, but you should give some better arguments >> than "it's the official format". > > I did give these arguments: There are variouy problems media compatibility of > you use DVD+ with different drives. Your description runs counter to my experience. But that's not terribly surprising; there will of course be players which won't handle DVD+ media, but I've found them to be few and far between. > > NOTE: DVD+ does not have a round robin check!!!!!! I don't know what that is, and searching isn't turning up anything but pages about a movie called 'round robin'. -- :wq
