On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:22:00 -0400, Mr Ed wrote:
>Some time back there was a discussion about DVD's and whether the (+) or
>(-) units were the best. What was the final recommendation?
DVD-R vs DVD+R. DVD-R is more popular, been around longer, and media is
cheaper. Some say it's more more compatable with consumer DVD players and
older DVD-ROM drives as well.
DVD-RW vs DVD+RW. DVD+RW has more advanced features allowing it to handle bad
sector mapping, so if you are going to someday use DVD rewritable media as a
replacement for ZIP discs, DVD+RW is a better format to go with.
Personally, I've burned maybe 2 or 3 rewritable CDs in my life, and hundreds
(thousands?) of burn once CDs. So far I've burned burn once DVDs only (a few
hundred) not even bothering to buy any rewritable media. So DVD-R was my
choice.
If you are truely worried, and expect to use this drive for every possible
use for years and years, then buy a combo drive that writes all
DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW. But frankly, I think it's a waste of money since
the price is nearly double a good DVD-R/DVD-RW drive.
When Microsoft finally releases a new OS that supports DVD rewritable media
in the OS with a Mount Rainer style file system, then I'd worry about what
sort of rewritable drive to get, until then pick up a Pioneer DVR-105 for
$160 and lots of blank DVD-R media and stop worrying.
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