DVD -R/RW vs. DVD+R/RW

Yesterday, a member asked for a recommendation on a CD/DVD burner. Jeff, (the Predator) offered an excellent response which prompted me to do some further research which some may find helpful in clarifying the two formats.

I discovered there are two different groups of companies, each supporting different formats. One is called the 'DVD Forum' which supports DVD -R/RW and the other is the 'DVD Alliance', to which Dell belongs, and which supports the newer DVD +R/RW format. (This is why you won't find and DVD -R/RW burners on Dell's site).

Which one will emerge as the finalist is anyone's guess? But, as Jeff recommended, having a drive which burn in either format seems the best way to go. Each one has different offerings. For an in-depth here's a site you may want to bookmark?

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

Responses(2)

JTL123

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February 15th, 2005 04:00

I recently bought two Pioneer A09XL multi-format DVD drives ($120. ea.) which I have installed in the same XPS Gen 3. After some annoying bogus boot error issues, all appears well. It's great to be able to copy/backup/read any DVD or CD without even thinking about it. So, in my home at least, the current "format war" has become irrelevant.

But the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war is right around the corner, so rest while you can...

jgayman

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February 16th, 2005 00:00

The current DVD format issues will never be resolved. The next wave of HD-compatible DVD recordable formats is just around the corner and the industry seems destined to repeat it's mistakes.

For the past two years I have been using a Pioneer DVR-A05 to create literally hundreds of home authored DVDs using DVD-R media. I have not had one single disk returned to me because of read problems on set-top boxes. I use good quality Maxell and Ridata media and burn at slow speeds.

Upon receiving my new Dell 8400 I ripped out the junky Philips 8631 and replaced it with a Pioneer DVR-A09 DVD +/- RW. In the past two weeks I have created about 15 DVD-Rs and just today I burned 8 DVD+R using Maxell media. All played without a hitch on my two set-top players.

Basically, unless someone requests a DVD+R I burn everything to -R media.

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