+ / - Data

[edsmith77]

Good Afternoon,
A great risk of starting another "Holy"war, I wanted to add some of my own personal data supporting the +/- camps.
I made a trip to my local BB and CompUsa stores and here is what I found.
With respect to media plenty of both types no clear indicator there in either BB or CompUsa. However, which burners were being sold is quite something else.
In BB, there were ONLY 5 DVD burners available. 4 of them supported both formats. They were the Sony, Pioneer, TDK and Centdyne. There was ONLY one supporting the "-" camp and that was the HP. And there was only 1 unit in the store.

CompUsa was only selling the Sony dual format burner.

For these two retail outlets, it seems kinda telling. However, the research was FAR from complete and TOTALLY unscientific. I was just to satisfy my own curosity as to what type of burner I should be shopping for. Being the sort who wants to ride the fence. The dual format seems the way to go.
Of the locally avaiable burners the Sony was the most expensive at $340 with the Pioneer at #329, the other two were at $299. They all claimed to burn at 4x and 2.4 but hey the real test is in actually creating a DVD.

Just my two cents.

[TBoneit]

Are you sure about that hP, I could havw sworn that HP only made +r / +RW drives.

Cheers

[orbital517]

That's what I thought too. HP only makes +R/+RW drives.

[LanEvo7]

I think that was a typo. HP ONLY makes +R drives.

[edsmith77]

You guys may be right, I thought I had read it as -R but.... In anycase it was the HP300i drive.