DVD-R vs. DVD+RW
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From: sbt on 25 Dec 2005 17:25 In article <1kErf.6352$pE4.5071(a)tornado.socal.rr.com>, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng7(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Warren Oates wrote: > > In article <418ahrF1d1q6sU1(a)individual.net>, > > "Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam(a)xplornet.com> wrote: > > > > > >>The difference here is that, according to several Mac users I know, Toast is > >>actually a good product. > > > > > > Toast up to version 6 has an incredible reputation as a reliable and > > well-designed piece of software. Then Sonic bought it. Toast 7 tries to > > be a kind of "Dummies" DVD authoring tool, which I think is a huge > > mistake, because they're trying to cram too much into it. I've pretty > > much reverted to 5.2.1 which simply burns CDs and DVDs of any kind I ask > > it to; the only coasters I've made with it are due to mistakes I've > > made, not mistakes in the software or the media. > > I've stayed with Toast 6. And I've moved on to Toast 7. They added a number of features to Toast, the biggest of which was probably the incorporation of the "Popcorn" functionality, While there are definitely features for what Mike is calling "Dummies" DVD Authoring, there are also a couple of nice touches (like the Kiosk mode setting). It's also a superb tool for folks that want to create DivX on their Mac for use with devices like the Philips 642 (I have two of them and my girlfriend and her kids and grandkids have them, too). I haven't found anything yet that is present in Toast 6 and missing in 7, but the converse is not true -- I like the new version a lot. That said, get the 7.0.2 update as it fixes some nasty bugs in burning multiple copies of a DVD you're authoring within Toast. -- Spenser
From: David C. on 26 Dec 2005 12:52 danspam(a)f2s.com (Daniel Cohen) writes: > > What is the situation with videos on a DVD player? I have noticed that > DVD recorders specify which media they will accept. But for DVD > players, the ones whose specifications I have seen mention only DVD > -R?RW and say nothing about the + formats. Both -R and +R are supposed to be compatible with video players (and DVD-ROM drives). In actual practice, there are some players that have problems with one or the other. Historically, more players support -R than +R, but I think all modern players can handle both. A little experimentation is the best way to find out for sure what your own player can handle. As for the RW formats (-RW and +RW), fewer players will handle them, much like how there are a lot of CD players that can't handle CD-RW media. Your player's documentation may mention compatibility. If it doesn't, you may want to run a few tests. -- David
From: Bill's News on 26 Dec 2005 19:20 Phil Wheeler wrote: > cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com wrote: >> Wow, the more I ask, the more answers I receive, the more confused >> I >> become! >> >> People have recommended both Toast 6 and Toast 7 as a method (is >> that >> the right word or am I not understanding the concept here?) to use. > > Aside from all that, I often wonder why they named the product > Toast, > as in "Well, that DVD-R is toast!" :-) > > Seems preordained to failure. > > Phil My maternal grandmother was part of our household family from my birth thru early school years, grades 1 thru 8 or so. Part of her chores-in-lieu-of-rent was to prepare my breakfast on school days. There was never a day that she did not burn the toast. I was in college before realizing that neither toast nor butter was meant to be black. To this day, the smell of anything resembling burnt toast conjures up pleasant images and warm memories of gram. So I find nothing at all negative about "that DVD-R is toast!" On the other hand, Toast, the media burning software product, in the short time that I'd used it (1999-2000) had never conjured up a pleasant memory of gram or anyone or anything else, but it did do the job I'd asked of it. Although Ahead had be founded a few years earlier, I had not yet heard of it. So glad that I did later, as Toast eventually was beginning to remind me of gram.
From: Bubba on 26 Dec 2005 21:08 I've noticed the cheaper end models generally are more flexible as to media format than the high end ones. Interesting. Bubba
From: Richard Crowley on 26 Dec 2005 21:21
"Bubba" wrote ... > I've noticed the cheaper end models generally are more > flexible as to media format than the high end ones. > Interesting. The cheaper ones tend to come from a very large country where most discs are pirate/counterfeit and it sells more players if it can play anything. |