On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm about to make some DVDs to be played in a DVD player, not computer > but for TV. I have been using DVD+R and they work fine. I've made > quite a few of them. My friend bought another spindle of 100 that are > DVD-R. Note the difference of + and - there. I suspect it will play > fine but I don't want to open the spindle, burn a few, find out it > doesn't play and be stuck with DVD discs, at least 90 or so more, that > are basically of no use. If it won't work, I'd rather him swap them out > now and get what we know works instead of getting stuck. > > I'm using DeVeDe 3.23.0 software to create the DVD and K3b to burn > them. I think Devede creates a ISO image for K3b to burn if that helps > any. It's been a while since I made a DVD. > > I'm pretty sure they bought their DVD player just a few years ago. Will > DVD-Rs play the same as DVD+R in modern ones or are they still picky? > > Oh, the only DVD player I have is my puter so I'm not going to claim I > know them things real well. ;-) > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Hi Dale, It TOTALLY depends on the DVD player. Different players, different specs. My input is check the specs. You can burn 1 or 2 and try, but if the player isn't spec'ed for DVD-R then it might work today but be flaky tomorrow. BTW - I recently moved my wife's laptop off of Gentoo replacing it with Kubuntu. Only reason I bring it up is I bought a package of DVD+R to burn some boot DVDs and found her machine (and my mom's which is the same Asus G73JW model) won't read DVD+R but works fine with DVD-R. Sadly, I'll be switching my main machine away from Gentoo after now close to 17 years of using nothing but Gentoo. That's a long run having started in 2002/2003. My machine has no trouble with either type. Anyway, good luck. Mark
