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splashpot
11-30-2005, 04:04 PM
What's the difference?
codewarrior
11-30-2005, 04:10 PM
All good new machines should support either, so it's rare to need to worry about it. It is a media thing.
CrazyN8
11-30-2005, 04:40 PM
my DVD player doesn't seem to want to run -R. So I use +R. Get one and if it works then you are good to go. Check fatwallet.com and you can catch some really good deals on blank media.
testaaja
11-30-2005, 05:28 PM
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What's the difference?

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Here is some information ala wikipedia:
"The DVD Forum created the official DVD-ROM/R/RW/RAM standards and the DVD+RW Alliance created the DVD+R/RW standards. Since DVD+R/RW discs are not technically DVDs as per the DVD Forum standards, they are not allowed to display the DVD logo; instead, they display an "RW" logo (even if it is not re-writeable, something some consider deceptive advertising). However, they are readable by most DVD drives, so they are referred to as DVD+R and DVD+RW."
You can read the whole thing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd

So basically buy dvd-r. it's standard!