Video Compatibility Improvement Technology??

[LFNNS]

I am researching some dvd duplicators and came across this blurb:

Currently in the DVD player market, there isn't a single DVD player that will support playback on all recordable DVDs. That often causes troubles for businesses that want to distribute their recordable DVDs to their customers because they don't know what kind of recordable DVDs their customers' DVD players will playback. To solve this problem, VCIT (Video Compatibility Improvement technology) has been developed. VCIT is the technology based on the DVD+R format that will shorten the compatibility gap between recordable media and original DVDs and make recordable DVDs more compatible (up to 99%) with DVD players than ever

Has anyone heard of this and does it work? or is it just marketing hype and no truth to it?

Thanks,
LFN

[Nilfennasion]

This is all just smoke and mirrors. All it takes to make a player compatible with a format, laser optics aside, is the right firmware programming. This is just one of those press releases they make up to try and assure Joe Ignorant that they are doing something about a perceived problem when all Joe really needs to do is wait.

Then again, if there really is a programming initiative out there than can make players more compatible with recordables (doubtful), then the DVD+R DL format could sure use it right about now.

[LFNNS]

THanks for your help and insight!

I didn't know if there was any truth to the claims and IF it were true why not just do that from the get go and have all the DVD+ burners do that from the beginning??

Thanks,
J

[lordsmurf]

Marketing BS ... I can smell the stink from here.

[Nilfennasion]

The main reason compatibility was not ensured from the beginning was because the DVD Consortium did not see the need for it. Like many an American automobile company in the 1980s, they just assumed the people would buy whatever they made. It took them over two years just to add CD-R compatibility to their players, so this is hardly a surprise.

Whenever I go looking for a DVD-Video player these days, my first consideration is whether they can play back DVD+R, closely followed by DVD-R and DVD+R DL. All other factors are ignored unless they become highly unsatisfactory. The marketroids in this case appear to have become aware of things like that, and are trying to get the less market-savvy on side, so to speak.