-R or +R, whic is best for home movies on stand-alone?

[sellpipe]

Im still waiting on my DRU 500AX, supposed to be home when I get there tonite. What Im gonna do with it mainly is to take my home movies and burn them to watch on my stand-alone DVD player.

Which media (-R or +R) is best for my usage? I wasnt sure if it really mattered but zi wanted to make sure before I went out and bought a bunch of blanks.

Thanks bunches!!

[Xtasy2002]

-R is the best in all situations.

[drew22to375]

I posted similar question. The responses were pretty much a split decision and the differences were really very insignifigant between the two that it looks like the main decision is use what ever one works best on your stand alone DVD player.

[tgpo]

My player plays -R perfect.

[LanEvo7]

Most people use -R because you can get decent quality discs at lower prices than +R. They are both good as long as you use good media. Now its really hard to tell which media gives the best price/quality ratio. I've been searching around the internet for about a week and still haven't found an answer I liked.

[THE RIPPER]

Dvd's you buy from the store are -r ,thats the video standard.

[letgoofmyears]

Actually, there is no standard as of yet. When you go to a "store", and by this I'm assuming you mean a retail outlet, then you should be able to buy either format.

As far as compatibility goes, most stand-alones that will play a blank dvd will play both the +r and the -r. There are some exceptions, but overall they're about the same. The only real difference is price. The +r media tends to run higher.

What you need to do, once you get your drive, is try both formats, then choose the one you like more. Your stand-alone shouldn't have a problem with either of them.

[midwestarts]

Depends on the player - 1/2 my players wont play -R amd 1/2 wont play +R

[midwestarts]

Dvd's you buy from the store are -r ,thats the video standard.

thats incorrect - they are pressed and not burned so they are not + or -

[jacknjt]

just to let you all know that BRAND NAME media from DVD+R cost so much less than -R medias at store. the -r disc only has good prices through online order and are not brand name medias.

[suerpflysocal]

also, +rw you get at the store are much cheaper than -RW at the store, especially if you are going to compare +rw at 2.4x vs. -rw 2x (which as of now, only pioneer seems to make, and cost arm and leg...$6-8 not including shipping online, up to $15 at the B&M store, if they even carry it)

This swayed me to return my A05 and get DRU500AX. Need to have RW to test out disc before burning and 1x is too slow for testing. Not trying to start off topic discussion here, just my 2 cents.

[THE RIPPER]

Dvd's you buy from the store are -r ,thats the video standard.

thats incorrect - they are pressed and not burned so they are not + or -

Show me a +r disc with the official dvd video logo on it.

[davideck]

One thing I did was to walk down the DVD Player aisles at Best Buy and Circuit City and look at the spec cards of each machine. The number of DVD Players that claim DVD- compatibility outnumber those that claim DVD+ compatibility by about 4 to 1. The ones that claim to support DVD+RW often do not claim to support DVD+R. That convinced me that DVD-R/RW is the way to go.

[jacknjt]

99.9% of da dvd players in store do play dvd+r.
when i have a chance i'll take my the dvd+r i created and bring it to bestbuy to test and let you know how compatibility

[VEFF]

My four home DVD players' (including an Xbox) results:

DVD-R: all 4 play them
DVD+R: 2 out of 4 play them

[Faustus]

midwestarts is correct, however the dvd logo is on your disc because the - standard is the one supported by the DVDForum, aka guys who set the dvd standards... both seem to work pretty well. But personally I'm a - guy myself... mmm... ritek g03s....

[energy80s]

Of course, 1 in 4 DVD players doesn't play either format!

[Rambo78]

DVD+R/RW is a bit more expensive because it is newer than DVD-R/RW.
But technically DVD+R/RW is better than DVD-R/RW for example in linking. In the long run I think DVD+R/RW is the way to go. And know Microsoft has backed up DVD+R/RW and that is a pretty good companion.

[garryheather]

DVD+R writes marginally faster too.

If you have data intensive applications like a database, you would also notice an improvement in read speed across the entire disc on a DVD+R because they run CAV not CLV, so the speed of the disc does not have to change as the pickup moves up and down the disc like it does on -R.

+RW also has better defect management when used for data applications.

NO DVD-R or +R is the video standard, only DVD-Video is ! You can write a disc that is ALMOST DVD-Video on either recordable media, but if you read the specs you will see that a recordable DVD is never exactly the same as a pressed DVD-Video due mainly to minor layout differences. Most DVD players can play recordable DVD's if fed decent media written on a quality writer with compliant software, however there are a few, mainly older units, that will not.

Don't forget not one company "owns" DVD - it's a consortium. Every player will have their own implementation of the "standard". Also remember that DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc... sure you can stick video on it, but the consortium didn't want to limit the media to one application and got rid of the video reference after the first tea and biscuits.

Lets face it - I think most people go for -R because the media is a lot cheaper - and because of that, most companies can buy and sell in bulk which helps keep the prices down too.

[miketree]

Sony's new Blu-Ray machines are will only play dvd-r not +r. Assuming my next player is going to be a Blu-ray machine (when I replace my current sony in 3-5 years) I'll be able to play my dvd-r on it.

Having said that, it's the first blu-ray machine out, the others that following may have different specs.

[crazeplaya]

DVD-R is the standard developed by the DVD forum, this is the group that came up with the DVD standard in the first place.

So I would expect DVD-R to be more compatible, which is gennerally regarded to be the case.

[spiderman2k1]

DVD-R is better. I just want to say that the DRU500AX you better test it with Memorex DVD-R or Khpermedia DVD-R alot of the DRu500Ax are buggy I had to bring one back I real think pioneer make's a better drive. Any way there is a blue laser coming out soon that might now read DVD+R

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030303/tc_nm...ch_sony_dvd_dc

http://www.blu-raydisc.info/


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146643

[vitualis]

The vast majority of modern DVD players will play both but very few DVD players are actually rated to play the +R media. On the other hand, many/most newer DVD players are actually rated/designed to play DVD-R media.

Regards.

[cakennedy]

Many opinions, very few facts. It's understandable, of course, because it seems there are few objective facts out there...

You might have heard about two Intellikey studies, one funded by Pioneer and one funded by "anonymous," that arrived at two different conclusions for the compatibility issue. (It's worth noting that the study funded by Pioneer has the +R format as compatible as -R, and the +RW format more compatible than -RW.)

Compatibility is not so much an issue with newer players anyway; my non-scientific study at Best Buy had both +R and -R discs play in 100% of the dozen or so players tested. It's with older players that compatibility becomes an issue, and it still doesn't look like either format has a clear advantage.

And no, commercial DVDs are not -R. Nor are the +R; they're pressed, to give the highest compatibility. And personally, I don't care if the -R format has the "DVD" logo on it, if +R is more compatible, offers better features, and is basically the same price.

[digitalmaster]

The DVD+R\RW alliance seems hard pressed to make DVD+R the most compatible format for stand-alone players. So for the future this may be the way to go.
http://www.dvdrw.com/

[EnNiS]

what the **** is DVD-R and DVD+R
whats the difference and by definition, what seperates the 2??
and like 1 would 1 be more compatible etc.
thanx

[drewson99]

...and is basically the same price.

blew it at the end there. If I take the lowest priced DVD-R that works on all of my players and the lowest priced DVD+R that works on all of my players (I have to make that distinction because you can get dvd blanks cheaper than cd blanks but it doesn't mean that they will actually play) the DVD-R is significantly cheaper.

But, for the purpose of contributing to the original poster's question: if your stand-alone is at all new, it doesn't really matter, but this is what makes the price of blanks an even more important issue!

[EnNiS]

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