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Actually, I read that it was the "-" specification that all commercial
players can play, and this was born out when I went shopping for my first
DVD player recently. But what's the difference, anyway. Today most DVD
players play DVD-R and DVD+R equally well. Whether or not a player will play
a re-writable format depends more on the media than the encoding. Rewritable
DVDs don't reflect light the same way as write-once DVDs, and this confounds
many players.
The "+" specification, being more recent, has certain technical
superiorities over the "-" specification, but so what? The winner, if there
is one, will be decided by the market place.
The fact that Dell sells its computers with "+" burners likely has more to
do with a marketing agreement than a vote for technical supremacy. There was
a similar thing going on back when I was buying my Dimension 4500: At that
time the issue was RDRAM vs. DDR-SDRAM. Dell was heavily advertising its
8xxx series with RDRAM, even though the merits of RDRAM were controversial.
Rocky
"Larry Caldwell" <larryc@teleport.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ae59217a281da998adac@news.west.earthlink.net...
> In article <8HDec.43822$1y1.16524@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>,
> tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com (Thomas G.
> Marshall) says...
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea if in DVD land if the "+" is dying off or
> > overtaking the "-"?
> >
> > I'm trying to get a handle on just how likely it'll be that someone's
dvd
> > player would be able to handle my "+" burns.
>
> It's the other way around. The DVD+ standard is the one that all your
> commercial DVD players use, the DVD- standard allows more data per disk,
> but is not widely implemented.
>
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