DVD-R vs. DVD+RW
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From: Daniel Cohen on 27 Dec 2005 01:43 David C. <shamino(a)techie.com> wrote: > 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. Thanks. That clarifies things. I suspect that the documentation mentions -R because it needs to mention -RW and may as well say -R/RW, and does not mention +R because it doesn't actually support +RW. Anyway, as you say, I can experiment. It's also useful to have the info for afriend who is wondering about burners and players. -- Send e-mail to the Reply-To address; mail to the From address is never read
From: Bill Vermillion on 27 Dec 2005 13:55 In article <11r199842pnfv6b(a)corp.supernews.com>, Richard Crowley <rcrowley(a)xpr7t.net> wrote: >"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. Virtually all players come from 'a very large country' - as the figures I read said that 90% of all DVD players are made in China. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
From: H.B. Elkins on 27 Dec 2005 15:05 On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:34:17 GMT, Phil Wheeler wrote: >I use Toast and EZCDC 8, and both work well (on the correct platform!). As do I, but I've often wondered why the Roxio people don't rename one of them to match the software's name on the other platform, and make the interfaces similar. If you know Photoshop on the Mac you can navigate Photoshop on the PC fairly well, and vice versa, but Toast for Mac and EZCD (or Easy Media Creator as it's now known) have drastically different interfaces. The PC software gets the job done but it's much less user-friendly than Toast. -- To reply by e-mail, remove the "restrictor plate"
From: cmashieldscapting on 29 Dec 2005 05:10 Okay, having more or less survived the holidays, I'm back. I've yet to find these 50ยข DVDs people talk about. I ordered a couple +RWs from MacMall. They were $3 for 2, with $1 rebate brought it down to $2, but of course postage brought it up to about $4.50 a disk. Then I bought some +Rs and -Rs at a grocery store and they were almost as much per disk WITHOUT postage! I would like to try the Toast software and have one question. Do you have to have a certain Version of Mac for a certain Version of Toast? My Mac is a 10.2.8. Can I not go higher than a certain level of Toast, or can I go straight to Toast 7? Thanks. Cori
From: Bob Nielsen on 29 Dec 2005 08:01
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:10:14 -0800, cmashieldscapting wrote: > Okay, having more or less survived the holidays, I'm back. > > I've yet to find these 50? DVDs people talk about. I ordered a couple > +RWs from MacMall. They were $3 for 2, with $1 rebate brought it down > to $2, but of course postage brought it up to about $4.50 a disk. Then > I bought some +Rs and -Rs at a grocery store and they were almost as > much per disk WITHOUT postage! I paid ~$20 for a 50-pack of DVD-R at Costco a few months ago (40? ea.) > I would like to try the Toast software and have one question. Do you > have to have a certain Version of Mac for a certain Version of Toast? > My Mac is a 10.2.8. Can I not go higher than a certain level of Toast, > or can I go straight to Toast 7? Thanks. Toast 7 requires OS X version 10.3.9 or later, but Toast 6 will run on 10.2. |