Differences In Recordable DVD's

[Chris Dillon]

I bought about 50 dvd+r for the dvd recorder I purchased today. What is the difference inbetween the formats. Like - and +. Also, their are -rw and +rw. I'm guessing on these two formats you can finalise a disk and still rewrite over it. I always post here these stupid questionis cause they get answered and then disappear cause of how fast this board moves compared to the request boardl.

[Allnatural]

To the end-user, there's no difference (-r or +r) worth going into detail about. And yes, rw discs are re-writable.

Wikipedia has plenty of techincal details if you're really interested.

[wubb]

Well some DVD players play - and not +, some + and not -, and some play both (and I guess some can't handle either of them). Other than that it doesn't matter.

I stay away from RW media just because it's so flakey with CD-RW. I find that an CD-RW created in one drive may not work in a different drive. Kind of a crap shoot. I'd imagine they are a lot less likely to work in stand alone DVD players. Plus the regular +R and -R are so cheap never really saw the need for it.

[guinaevere]

Here's a link for you (http://www.videohelp.com/dvd). It's one page of reading and simple stats, but nothing is terribly complex. And it spells out the basic info for you.