From: "Bryan J. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is this more Sony/Philips DVD+R viewpoints? > (I'm trying to remember back?).
You're domain is barking at me that I'm SPAM. I remember the last time we had this thread, I had the same issue with your domain. So it was you! ;-> In a nutshell, "keep an open mind." One of the repeat "issues" I see is that Sony/Philips +R/+RW supporters seem to be rabid about everything being "inferior" to whatever works for them. It's not only a matter of perspective, but it's very insulting and reflects poorly on you. What works for us -RAM/-R/-RW users isn't necessarily "inferior" if it works well for us, even if it doesn't for you. It really depends on what drive you have, DVD Consortium or Sony/Philips. If you have a +R/+RW drive, or a Sony/Philips-based dual-format drive, then growisofs is what you need, and the DVD patches to CDRecord won't help. Sony/Philips has been promising a lot of things since 1998, and has under-delievered on them time and time and time again. They missed projected products by 2+ years, and decided that the US market would not accept them after the Japanese consumers failed to buy them. Then it failed to deliver a promised -R compatible drive until years later (and still doesn't have a DAO option for maximum player compatibility). It couldn't even get its +R to work on its 1st gen (2nd gen for Japan) drives which led to a (rightfully so) lawsuit by consumers who were so promised -- a fact that haunted HP who sold the most in PCs c/o the DVD100i drives and promised +R writing. Sony/Philips also introduced CAV write MO which caused a lot of headaches in the CD-RW space prior (hence why I like to call it CD+RW to differentiate ;-). The specs are cool, the performance is nice, but compatibility and reliability tend to be a bit more of a consideration to some of us -- and you can't be arrogantly calling things "inferior" when some of us have a very different set of criteria and experience from your own. Find out the drive the user has and cater to them. Don't arrogantly state that something is "superior" until you find out the drive involved. I've yet to have an issue with my or anyone else's recent LG SuperDrives sold over the last 3 years. And they read my 7 year old DVD-RAM discs, which is golden. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
