For Everyone About To Buy A DVD Recorder Read This!!!!!!!!!!

[jrhilton]

If you are confused or unsure about which format of DVD recorder to buy e.g. DVD-R or DVD+R well now you don’t need to worry, Sony are bringing out a drive in November (2002) Which is a combination drive which can write DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, check out http://www.burnworld.com/cdr/hardware/sony/dru500a.htm

And will sell for less than $350 (apparently) Sony seems to be the first manufacturer who is selling a Dual RW drive does anyone know of any other manufacturers who are about to release a new Dual RW drive?

[Jester700]

NEC is, in December I think. Others will follow, I'm sure.

[tonyp12]

But if you get a DVD+R (like Philips DVDRW228= $240)

Why would you use DVD-R, as that has lower
compatibility with standalone DVD player?

Sure DVD-R media cost at little less for now, and the Sony can
burn -R at 4X.

But if your friends DVD player would not play it, I sure spend
$1 more on the media and burn at 2.4X on DVD+R.

[Jester700]

I think you're exaggerating the compatibility differences between -R and +R. Both sides argue this, and I've seen "tests" that disagreed. I think they're pretty similar. Considering there are machines that play one and not the other, it would be great to be able to burn either way.

And 4x recording would be cool, but the media will be expensive at first.

[Thorn]

By the time - or + wins out, we'll be burning blu-ray discs and no one will care. On that note, besides the fact that competition is good for prices, why should we care that + is out? There isn't a significant difference between the two so it depends on what the target device(s) can play. Speed isn't an issue either because many people choose the cheapo dvd-r route and can only burn at 1x anyway... It's too bad that the conglomerates couldn't agree on the standards but it really isn't a holy war so price and the format the target device reads will drive the market.

[tonyp12]

Just found out that the Sony500 can be had for $253 shipped.

Sales tax may apply.


http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=115788

[jrhilton]

If you read the tests carefully the ones that put DVD+R compatability ahead of DVD-R, most are only testing if the Disk was regognised, they do not always test whether the disk can be played without a hitch, many DVD+R disks can be regognised yet when it comes to playing they will not work perfectley. My new HP computer came with a DVD+R writer and I burnt two disk and when I went to buy my new dvd player for my TV, I took the disks to the shop to see which players could play them, sure many of the players regognised the disks but many of those could not play them proprally. Yet more could play a DVD-R disk because I had a short 8mm Cine film I shot years a gow put onto DVD and that DVD-R disk played fine in more players than the DVD+R worked in. Though the owner of the shop did think I was a bit strange testing all the disks in all of the players. This is why I posted the origional message because getting a DVD writer that can write both types of disk seems to me to best the best way of not wasting your money. If you don't believe me about the difference in compatability between DVD-R and DVD+R then take some disks along to a shop and try them on different DVD players and see for yourself.

Cast your mind back to the whole VHS vs BETAMAX war - remember the best does not always win, after all look VHS won just because more manafactures made the machines and they were cheeper, but BETAMAX was far better. So thats why I would advise people buy a burner that burns both