On 6/25/03 5:04 PM, don hinkle posted:
I paid for a firm to take my 16mm movie and convert it to a digital format. They did, but sent it back on a DVD that was formatted for Wind**s. I cannot access this through a SuperDrive.
There's no such thing as a Windows DVD format. There are, however, four
different types of media: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. Windows PCs
tend to create the "+" types and Apple standardized on the "-" type long
before that.
Drives designed for one type of drive cannot always read discs created on
the other type of drive. That's what you're running into. Suggest you ask
the vendor to burn a new copy in a format you can use.
there are exceptions... but generally, once a DVD-R or DVD+R is written, it's no longer that format, and is just a DVD-ROM or DVD-Video. if a DVD drive has trouble reading it, it's being picky about the media itself rather than the + or - format. so, even if it is a DVD+R, any drive should be able to read it.
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