Pretty silly comment.
Not silly at all for those who bought 1st Gen DVD+RW drives back in 2001 with the promise of DVD+R compatibility.
As I said, Sony/Philips has falsely advertised again and again and again - all the way back to the old 3GB Japan-only DVD-R+W.
I don't see how people can defend them.
The only thing I can think of is that people often confuse DVD-R(G) standards from the DVD Consortium with their CSS and Video standards.
Two whole different ballgames.
It just means that by about 2004 +R technology had matured to a point where compatibility issues dropped to about the same levels as those of -R.
No.
It meant by 2004 consumer electronics could handle MO technology more reliably.
It had *nothing* to do with "maturity" of DVD+R, and everything to do with consumer devices being able to emulate pie-slice MO as a single grove like ROM/WORM.
I urge you to read up on the *physical* differences between MO and ROM/WORM.
A MO pie-slice media must be emulated like a ROM/WORM single-grove by the end-device.
It's like trying to get an analog record player to play a hard drive.
And that's just the compatibility, not even looking at longevity.
The funny thing is that Matsushita DVD-RAM has had better compatibility on licensee's drives than Sony/Phlips DVD+RW did in the early years.
And DVD-RAM was never designed for consumer use, but optical archiving.
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