On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 9:58 AM, Dan Knight wrote:

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.

Not true. Last figure I saw was that only about 80% of DVD drives (whether in computers or DVD players) can reliably read any specific writable DVD format.

well.... that's why I qualified it with "should". :)



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