DVD-R vs. DVD+RW
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From: cmashieldscapting on 23 Dec 2005 03:57 In trying to determine the best media data storage method, I've been informed that DVD-R is one session and permanent while DVD+RW is multi-session and to some extent reusable. As I understand it, you burn something to DVD-R once and that's it--so if it doesn't fill up the whole disk it's kind of a waste, and if you make a mistake burning it you'd better find a creative decorative use for the disk as it's no earthly use ever again for any kind of media storage. With DVD+RW you can redo and add to things until you get them the way you like. So I have a few questions. 1. Are there ANY advantages to DVD-R over DVD+RW? 2. Is the quality any better? 3. Are DVD+RW disks susceptible to accidents such as unintentionally being erased, and DVD-R not? And, lastly 4. If you complete a DVD+RW disk is there any way to make it permanent (such as there is by locking a video or cassette tape)? Thanks for any clarification as to reasons why for these different methods of storage! Cori
From: Cynthia G on 23 Dec 2005 08:12 cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com wrote: > In trying to determine the best media data storage method, I've been > informed that DVD-R is one session and permanent while DVD+RW is > multi-session and to some extent reusable. As I understand it, you > burn something to DVD-R once and that's it--so if it doesn't fill up > the whole disk it's kind of a waste, and if you make a mistake burning > it you'd better find a creative decorative use for the disk as it's no > earthly use ever again for any kind of media storage. With DVD+RW you > can redo and add to things until you get them the way you like. > > So I have a few questions. > > 1. Are there ANY advantages to DVD-R over DVD+RW? > > 2. Is the quality any better? > > 3. Are DVD+RW disks susceptible to accidents such as unintentionally > being erased, and DVD-R not? > > And, lastly > > 4. If you complete a DVD+RW disk is there any way to make it > permanent > (such as there is by locking a video or cassette tape)? Once I get a DVD+RW the way I want it - I copy it to DVD+R and that becomes my "original" for future copying to other DVD+R (or DVD-R if the person I'm giving it to has one of the few machines I've met that doesn't like +R). I then re-use the +RW. > Thanks for any clarification as to reasons why for these different > methods of storage! > > Cori -- Cynthia I don't read Hotmail - To mail me: cynthiag at canadiensfan dot com
From: Bob on 23 Dec 2005 09:43 On 23 Dec 2005 00:57:12 -0800, cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com wrote: >In trying to determine the best media data storage method, I've been >informed that DVD-R is one session and permanent while DVD+RW is >multi-session and to some extent reusable. You need to know that there are two standards for WORM(*) discs DVD -R DVD +R and for RW(*) discs. DVD -RW DVD +RW This is sometimes contracted to: DVD -R/RW DVD +R/RW You use the kind of disc (-R or +R)that your unit is made to write to. Some DVDRs write only to one or the other and some to both. Most will read both. Furthermore, with most computer DVD burners there is one kind (either -R or +R) that performs better than the other. You have to experiment to find out. In any case, the quality of the disc is critical. The recommendation given by the experts at CDFreaks is to go with Taiyo Yuden for regular discs and Verbatim for RW discs. http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=146146 Check out: supermediastore.com meritline.com rima.com --- (*)WORM = Write Once Read Many (*) RW = Re-Writable -- Our revels now are ended. These are actors as I foretold you were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air, and like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, and all that it inherits, has dissolved, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leaves not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
From: billh on 23 Dec 2005 13:33 <cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1135328232.302610.302320(a)g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > In trying to determine the best media data storage method, I've been > informed that DVD-R is one session and permanent while DVD+RW is > multi-session and to some extent reusable. As I understand it, you > burn something to DVD-R once and that's it--so if it doesn't fill up > the whole disk it's kind of a waste, and if you make a mistake burning > it you'd better find a creative decorative use for the disk as it's no > earthly use ever again for any kind of media storage. With DVD+RW you > can redo and add to things until you get them the way you like. > > So I have a few questions. > > 1. Are there ANY advantages to DVD-R over DVD+RW? > > 2. Is the quality any better? > > 3. Are DVD+RW disks susceptible to accidents such as unintentionally > being erased, and DVD-R not? > > And, lastly > > 4. If you complete a DVD+RW disk is there any way to make it permanent > (such as there is by locking a video or cassette tape)? > > Thanks for any clarification as to reasons why for these different > methods of storage! > > Cori > There is an article on CDFreaks about the advantage of +R over -R although I doubt if everybody agrees. As far as RW of any type goes, I only use them for moving a PC recorded TV program to my player upstairs for viewing and deleting or for fooling around. Anything I really want to have minimum problems with or higher data integrity such as for data backups, I use non-RW. Just the way I see it. billh
From: cmashieldscapting on 23 Dec 2005 15:36
From: "Cynthia G" <cynthiag31DONTR...(a)hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:12:57 -0500 > Once I get a DVD+RW the way I want it - I copy it to DVD+R and that becomes my "original" for future copying to other DVD+R (or DVD-R if the person I'm giving it to has one of the few machines I've met that doesn't like +R). I then re-use the +RW. That's what I was going to do at first but then wondered whether the contents would suffer any loss in quality. Thanks. Cori |