DVD+R or DVD-R Which one is more compatiable?

[allsmiles42240]

Hello if you were taking a poll and tried every dvd player in the usa which would play on the larger percentage of players?
I use prodisc +r and they have worked on most all players i have tried them on.I found some cheap Pro disc -r was curious if they would be as good?

[laspis59]

DVD-R is supposed to be more compatible than DVD+R but if you change a DVD+R's booktype to DVD-ROM,then it is more compatible than DVD-R.

[lordsmurf]

DVD-R is supposed to be more compatible than DVD+R but if you change a DVD+R's booktype to DVD-ROM,then it is more compatible than DVD-R.

That is not at all true.
DVD-R used to be about 25% more compatible than DVD+R
When booktype came to be, that knock it down to just about 5% difference.

So DVD-R is still more compatible, but only by 5%. And of that 5%, most of it is for older players. Newer players maybe 1-2% difference. I still see maybe 1 unit a month that cannot play DVD+R, but that's about it.

In other words .... almost the same. Almost.

[allsmiles42240]

but if you change a DVD+R's booktype to DVD-ROM

What does this mean?
Better yet how do you do it?

thanks

[Bodyslide]

Edit

[laspis59]

You can use the popular Nero Burning ROM,Nero CD-DVD Speed and DVDDecrypter to change the booktype.Changing the booktype to DVD-ROM for DVD+R fans is a good idea because it is more compatible with DVD Players.
Thats why people who cannot change the booktype with their writer's original firmware,download hacked firmware in order to do so.

[zod5000]

the booktype thing, is just the part of the disc, that tells the drive what kind of disc it is.

dvd-r's have them hard encoded onto the blanks, so it can't be changed.

dvd+r's allow it to be written. So if a player will only allow dvd-rom disc, you set the bitsetting thing to dvd-rom, and you basically trick the player into thinking your +r disc is a dvd-rom.

however as above stated, new players are getting better, and its not much of a difference on new players, hell ever my xbox plays +r's.

its rather nice, I've used -r's for the longest time, but as of late i've only been finding made in japan stuff on sale thats +r, so i finally upgrade my drive to one with bitsetting, problem solved, now I can use whatsever good and onsale

[allsmiles42240]

thanks...from allsmiles!