Why no multi-session DVD-R?

[mr-w2w]

With DVD-R media I find that it's not possible to create multi-sessions. Unlike CD-R media that can have files added later if there's enough space, DVD-R's seem to be a one time record situation. I am using Nero for recording to my DVD-R's. The software states that multi-session is a problem except with Windows XP. I use Windows 2000.



Any thoughts? Thanks.

[housepig]

my first thought is the use of the word "some" - you will have problems with "some" dvd-roms and "some" operating systems.

I would get a dvd-rw and try it out. worst case, it doesn't work, you wipe the disc and re-burn it.

[bartman]

I did a multisession DVD-R once. It read in my burner (Pioneer 104) but not in my dvd-rom drive (an old Sony 8x)....mind you, my sony doesn't read DVD-RW either so I would say that it would depend on the age of your ROM drive....

In short, you should be fine unless it is a disk you want to send to someone else. Worst case it will still be readable in your burner.

[dcsos]

Finalizing is necessary to read the disc on a SETTOP only

However, the only drive that reads a multisession surely, as bartman observes, is the one that wrote it!

[PhilipL]

Withdrawn