> but I personally would never use DVD+R. > Because it is CAV MO, it is a basket of issues when it comes to > compatibility, much like CAV CD-RW did.
Sounds far fetched to me. > CLV v. CAV is a little know, but serious issue when it comes to MO. > I've had damage as a result, shortening the life of drives, beyond just > media. Sounds like a fairy tale to me, at least when stated as generalisation. You're a member of the DVD-R standards group? I'd be interested in hearing about your data and reasoning though. The compatibility of DVD+R is not any worse then DVD-R for any DVD drive manufactured 2004 or later. I only use DVD+RW for rolling backups, and never had a problem. If nothing else, they don't have this annoying feature of having to be erased before further use because they are read-write media. I also never understood why people don't like to use growisofs, which generally just works (better than the various dvd patches to cdrecord anyway, plus it's actually supported). A different command line syntax is a pretty bad argument. > **NOTE: My favored drives are the $60 LG GSA-416x series "MultiDVD" > drives. For how long do they provide firmware updates after the drive first comes to market? Pioneer is lousy, their's is about 12 months, and after that you start to find that the currently available media can no longer be burnt by the Pioneer drive (and the older media is no longer on the market of course). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list Dvdrtools-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
