Another minus for the "-" format.

[Scobo]

It appears there are compatability issues on the horizon for older 1x and 2x DVD-RW burners with new 4X disks.
http://www.dvdwriters.co.uk/

Early adopters of the format get shafted yet again !
By the way, I didn't intend to start yet another format flame.
I just felt I should point this problem out to people with older burners.
I use a dual format burner and am quite happy with both "+" and "-" disks and have no preference over either. In fact I mainly use 4x DVD-R disks as they're currently cheaper.

[tompika]

Oooooooold news..........


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212260

[Scobo]

Ah !
Not been reading the posts here for a while.
Still, it won't do any harm to raise the issue again in case some people missed it first time round.
I'm surprised their hasn't been more response to this subject though.

[solarfox]

Well, when you get right down to it, CD-RW's have the same problem. The "high-speed" media designed to work in 4X-10X drives won't work in the older "low-speed" drives that max out at 4X, which is why they still make the two different types. I've also heard reports that modern 40X-and-above CD-R media can be problematic in older <10X -R drives.

So as fodder for the plus-vs.-dash wars, it's not all that great of an issue, since we've been dealing with this kind of problem for a long time in the CD-R world now.