Utter DVD confusion.

Is there any significant difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?
Do new DVD burners recognize all DVD formats?
My DVD player playes DVD+R, but not DVD-R. Also, a stand-alone
DVD burner could not read or burn CD-Rs.

Who are these DVDforum(DVD-R) & DVDalliance(DVD+R), and why do they
support 2 different formats when no one cares and blue ray and HD are
out?
Why are there no CD+Rs?

Whats the deal with speeds? I see all are 16x now. A spindle
of 100 DVD+Rs 4X is selling in NYC for $19.99; but 16X for $24.99.

Interestingly, my CD-R burner cannot burn CD-Rmusic, but the DVD burner
can.

Bolshoy Huy <bolshoyhuy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any significant difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?

Yes.

> Do new DVD burners recognize all DVD formats?

Yes on that question. Support for DVD-RAM varys,
and some will read that format but not write it too.

And the cheap ones dont handle the latest formats like Blueray either.

> My DVD player playes DVD+R, but not DVD-R. Also,
> a stand-alone DVD burner could not read or burn CD-Rs.

That isnt unusual, and its commonly seen with standalone DVD systems.

> Who are these DVDforum(DVD-R) & DVDalliance(DVD+R),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd

> and why do they support 2 different formats

Because thats how things developed.

> when no one cares and blue ray and HD are out?

Because thats how things developed.

And we are seeing that same terminally stupid format wars with blueray and HD too now.

> Why are there no CD+Rs?

Because that terminal stupidity happened after that.

> Whats the deal with speeds? I see all are 16x now.

No they arent. Maybe you mean the burners.

> A spindle of 100 DVD+Rs 4X is selling in NYC for $19.99;

You can get those a lot cheaper than that.

> but 16X for $24.99.

And that.

> Interestingly, my CD-R burner cannot burn CD-Rmusic, but the DVD burner can.

Yeah, tho some DVD burners cant burn at the full speed the CDR media can do.

Bolshoy Huy wrote:
> Is there any significant difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?


Some. Follow the "see also links"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R


> Do new DVD burners recognize all DVD formats?

Most.

> My DVD player playes DVD+R, but not DVD-R.

That happens sometimes. Newer ones tend to support more formats.

> Also, a stand-alone
> DVD burner could not read or burn CD-Rs.

You might consider looking for a firmware update.

>
> Who are these DVDforum(DVD-R) & DVDalliance(DVD+R), and why do they
> support 2 different formats when no one cares and blue ray and HD are
> out?

The almighty dollar.

> Why are there no CD+Rs?

The DVD+R format was developed in 2002.
The Cd-R format was developed in 1988. Perhaps the dvd+ people thought
the cd market settled.


>
> Whats the deal with speeds?

Maximum burn rate, and different dyes. A 1xDVD rotates 3X faster than a
1X CD. CDR top out at about 52X before the disc wobbles too much to be
read properly. So don't expect much faster DVD drives.

I see all are 16x now. A spindle
> of 100 DVD+Rs 4X is selling in NYC for $19.99; but 16X for $24.99.

Cause speed is a premium.

>
> Interestingly, my CD-R burner cannot burn CD-Rmusic, but the DVD burner
> can.

Again, look for a firmware update.