Microsoft will Support ALL DVD Rewritable standards!

[PhilipL]

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[LanceSteel]

I guess that lays to rest the billions of arguments that I've seen of people saying "DVD-R/-RW is dead because Microsoft is supporting DVD+R/+RW. Microsoft is a big company and whatever they don't support will die."

[RAAGAAman]

I am glad that MS woke up. None of the formats is better than the other. +RW could have an advantage over -RW if DVDMRW can be implemented. Of course CD MRW has so far done nothing. The problem is defect management between different drive vendors. I don't see this being solved with DVD writing. Also, to achieve good performance with DVDMRW you have to have CAV writing which I have not seen from any DVD + writer yet.

RG

[Quigonsean]

Well I just a commercial for the Panasonic Set Top recorder, and it is DVD-R/-RAM. It is the only advertisment on the tele I've seen for a DVD Recorder. I don't think either format is going anywhere soon. Not ''till after Blue Ray has been common place for a few years. Heck CD-R is still a very much needed format, regardless of how cheap a dvd-r might get no one wants to burn a 250 meg file on a dvd it'd be a waste even if they cost the same. Heck between the two you get all kinds-a- capacity. You can get 50meg Buis card cd, 128 or some odd Mini CDR 650meg 700meg cdr. Then moving up to dvd you get 1.4 gig mini dvd, 2.8 gig double sided dvd-R or -RAM, the up to 4.7 gig, and 9.4 ouble sided -R or -RAM. So noiether -R/RW or +R/RW or going anywhere, or cd even for that matter.

Sean