On 6/28/03 10:17 AM, Jeremy Derr posted: >On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 7:30 AM, Dan Knight wrote: > >> 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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