dvd+ winning is a very bad new for dual recorders

[rdd48856]

Dual recorders are much less compatible for dvd+ than dvd+ only recorders because they are unable to set book type. So if dvd+ wins you have a recorder that writes less compatible dvd+ than the rest. I was thinking in buying a dual but i have many daughts now. Why manufacturares don't make dual able to set book type?....Should we email them to do so?

[noki]

bitsetting for the NEC 1300a has been finalized and working . the code has been sent to Herrie weeks ago so it can be implemented in his soon-to-be released 1.08x.

[Gazorgan]

Makes me glad I got a 1300A !!!

[noki]

me too!!! hey Gazorgan, share your "cheat" method of producing navigational menus for multiple movies in DVDShrink, will you (4th request)

[lgmayka]

My understanding is that only Ricoh-built drives and HP-sold drives allow or require a nonstandard booktype. Other manufacturers say that a nonstandard booktype is just that--nonstandard, a direct violation of the DVD+R/+RW standard--and refuse to permit it. Theoretically, I guess, the DVD+R/+RW standards organization could force Ricoh (or at least HP) to remove the RW logo from their drives.

But of course that won't happen, because the best evidence still suggests, just as you say, that only by setting a nonstandard booktype can + reach the same level of compatibility with older DVD players that DVD-R enjoys.