Differences between DVD -R and DVD +R

[MarvelousMatt]

I am just curious what the big difference if any there is between the two.
I know with +R you can write a little more data and burn faster generally, but -R is more accepted amongst compatibility with DVD players.

Anyone have any more imput or information for me?

Thanks

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[Bodyslide]

You Have triple posted your topic. Wait a few minutes before you post again. it takes a few minutes for your topic to appear. You can do a search for your ? or try reading here.

http://www.digitalfaq.com/othervideo/dvdformats.htm

[glockjs]

haha this is gonna get ugly....hope you have a great sense of humor MarvelousMatt

[jaxxboss]

+R is better because blue is the color of the sky and the sea. Also a verb was whats hey didnt quickly as free it over hey now. YEs !!

[lordsmurf]

+R is better because blue is the color of the sky and the sea. Also a verb was whats hey didnt quickly as free it over hey now. YEs !!

WTF?

[glockjs]

+R is better because blue is the color of the sky and the sea. Also a verb was whats hey didnt quickly as free it over hey now. YEs !!

i understood the first sentence, but ummmm ive read the second sentence like five time now and uhhhh well makes me wanna stop drinking and never do another drug in my life

[jaxxboss]

LOL. Well ya know that should be the typical answer to the +R -R question.

[glockjs]

haha, your right...ive pasted your quote in a txt on my desktop, if you dont mind jaxxboss ill use your quote from now on for every -r +r post...with your help we can successfully even further confuse the crap outta everbody that is already confused about +r -r that posts in the future

[indolikaa]

Somebody get PhilipL in here!



OK, here's the differences in a nutshell. Taiyo Yuden. All other media is shit!

[glockjs]

OK, here's the differences in a nutshell. Taiyo Yuden. All other media is shit!

oh god, here we go again

the better one is gonna be the one thats on sale that week ok

[MarvelousMatt]

I was just curious the only difference is the size and speed that I saw...wasn't sure if there was anything more to this or if it was just that certain companies started out only supporting + or - and that's all there is to it

[lordsmurf]

In case you missed it the first time, this says it all:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/othervideo/dvdformats.htm

[indolikaa]

The DVD Forum developed the -R format and is responsible for the standards behind the pressed DVDs you buy at places like Blockbuster and Wal-Mart. Their standards evolved through a large consortium of companies, not all of whom are DVD-related.

The +RW Alliance was created after the DVD Forum had standardized and released the DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R and DVD-RW formats. It was a competing format whose founders will tell you was designed to deal with serious flaws in the -RW recording structure. In reality, and this is a view that will start a flame war, it was all about royalties, and who wasn't gettin' a piece of the pie.

Supposedly, +R has a better error-correction scheme. DVD-R is more compatible than DVD+R, but that's because players released before +R became available (+RW was first, and nowhere near as compatible as it's write-once brother) did not have firmware designed to read +R discs. So when you see that DVD-R has a slight compatibility advantage, in all but a very small few cases, it's because they are testing against older machines that predate the +RW Alliance and do not support the media.

I have an old RCA DVD player. Can't remember the model number to save my life, but it will only play pre-pressed DVD-Video and DVD-R discs. No DVD-RW, no DVD+R/W and no VideoCD/SVCD. One example of why some people choose DVD-R; older hardware still going strong.

[glockjs]

kinda makes you think, if +r is not paying any royalties what so ever than why is -r cheaper most of the time if not the same price???

[lordsmurf]

kinda makes you think, if +r is not paying any royalties what so ever than why is -r cheaper most of the time if not the same price???

The RW Alliance (Philips, HP and Sony mostly) get royalties instead of the DVD Forum. Disc makers are not part of the forums/alliances.

[glockjs]

but thats my point, you would think that they would be able to put they're own media out there at a cheaper price because they have nobody to pay but themselves...instead of every other company out there making -r at a cheaper price and still paying royalties... so the +r are makeing profits on royalties plus net, god bless america

[garryheather]

To the original poster, your first statement is wrong,-R has slightly more capacity.

+R does have slightly better error correction than -R FOR DATA.
+R is also better suited to fast, non sequential access (eg databases)

-R has a minor compatibility advantage over +R for DVD-Video (this is why you see bitsetting on some +R drives)
-R is slightly faster on the whole at sequential data access

To be honest, there isn't a lot in it.

[lordsmurf]

but thats my point, you would think that they would be able to put they're own media out there at a cheaper price because they have nobody to pay but themselves...instead of every other company out there making -r at a cheaper price and still paying royalties... so the +r are makeing profits on royalties plus net, god bless america

Ricoh Japan and CMC Magnetics make the DVD+R media and are not the major takers in the RW Alliance. Ritek supposedly makes some too, but that's debatable (ID hidden discs).

They are NOT paying themselves royalties.
I know what you're thinking, but you've got a bit mixed up.

[glockjs]

your right smurf...**** if sony, philips, or hp ever make anything cheap...well they do actually make it cheap but sell it cheap is a different story...