On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Mol <[email protected]> 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.
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.) >> 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.) 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". > There is one single exception: For Dual layer, the DVD+R/DL media gives better > results. -- :wq
