Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Along comes the DVD+R format. The DVD+R format has some variances in > *how* data is represented on disc, but to the player that doesn't know > any better, it looks just like any other DVD. The big difference DVD+R > brought was that the 'book type' field was burnable on any drive which > was capable of burning DVD+R media, and a disc appropriately burned > would play in any home DVD player as though it were a pressed disc. > (Yay, we can has home-recorded movies again!) > > Both DVD+R and DVD-R discs are sold, but I only ever buy DVD+R discs; > as far as I can tell, playback works in everything, and just about any > recorder will record to them. I have to think that the DVD-R discs are > sold only because there are still some ancient burners out there.
Not true: DVD- allows to write this too, but the media you can buy has been prerecorded to satisfy the film industry. > When in doubt, go with DVD+R. This is a wrong advise: When In doubt go DVD- as this is the official format. There is one single exception: For Dual layer, the DVD+R/DL media gives better results. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily