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Old 2007-12-28, 12:16 AM
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Re: DVD-R vs. DVD+R?

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Originally Posted by Homebrew101 View Post
From my limited knowledge, it's pretty hard to believe any burner NOT burning dvd-r as that is the only official format (Red Book?). DVD+R is probably the best format - it is my uderstanding that DVD+R had much better error correction capabilities that were created after the short comings of DVD-R error correction were realized but the official (Red Book?) was never updated.
Older (five years of so) DVD burners would only burn either +R or -R format discs (although they could play back both). My first DVD burner was a +R burner, chosen in part because they were capable of a blazing fast 2.4x burn rate compared to only 2x for -R burners at the time. Older set-top DVD players can sometimes have problems with +R discs, newer set-top players can generally handle either.

From a practical standpoint, if your set-top player will play either format disc it really doesn't matter except for the very rare disc that's too large for a DVD+R but will fit on a DVD-R (because of the 6 byte difference).
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