Solve : Difference between DVD-R and DVD+R ??

1.	Solve : Difference between DVD-R and DVD+R ??
Answer» I would like to know what the + and - means on the DVDs you use for recording movies. When I bought my computer, it had a DVD player/burner installed and I was given a pack of 4.7 GB DVD-Rs to use, but I've run out of them. I have a chance to buy some 4.7 GB DVD+Rs at a great price, but don't want to get the wrong ones. Any help please?The quote is from one of the links returned by Google here. Quote DVD+R are technically superior, tighter specs, results in better quality burning, etc. If the drive supports bit setting (burning a DVD+R as a DVD-ROM) then compatibility (in theory) will be MANY times better than DVD-R. Besides that, it seems that DVD+R are moving forward faster and generally have lower error rates than DVD-R. Also, not so many crappy media manufacturers are on the DVD+R scene yet, so your chances of getting a good bunch of DVD+R is Very good. All the dubious companies have established lines in DVD-R production, so chances of finding a good batch of DVD-R is just a little harder. But pay a bit more for your DVD+R, as the cheap ones are usually always a false ECONOMY, especially when you find out a few months down the track that the discs are unreadable Except for some very early DVD burner DRIVES about 9 years ago, all drives these days are perfectly happy with DVD - R and DVD + R disks. That text quoted must be quite old. However, if you are burning DVDs to watch in a DVD player, some (older) burners may not be able to prepare +R disks suitably for (older) DVD players. (For the technically MINDED, the word is "booktype".) My old burner bought in 2001 used to burn +R disks fine for my 2002 DVD player with no problems.

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I would like to know what the + and - means on the DVDs you use for recording movies. When I bought my computer, it had a DVD player/burner installed and I was given a pack of 4.7 GB DVD-Rs to use, but I've run out of them. I have a chance to buy some 4.7 GB DVD+Rs at a great price, but don't want to get the wrong ones. Any help please?The quote is from one of the links returned by Google here.

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DVD+R are technically superior, tighter specs, results in better quality burning, etc.

If the drive supports bit setting (burning a DVD+R as a DVD-ROM) then compatibility (in theory) will be MANY times better than DVD-R.

Besides that, it seems that DVD+R are moving forward faster and generally have lower error rates than DVD-R.

Also, not so many crappy media manufacturers are on the DVD+R scene yet, so your chances of getting a good bunch of DVD+R is Very good.
All the dubious companies have established lines in DVD-R production, so chances of finding a good batch of DVD-R is just a little harder.

But pay a bit more for your DVD+R, as the cheap ones are usually always a false ECONOMY, especially when you find out a few months down the track that the discs are unreadable

Except for some very early DVD burner DRIVES about 9 years ago, all drives these days are perfectly happy with DVD - R and DVD + R disks. That text quoted must be quite old.

However, if you are burning DVDs to watch in a DVD player, some (older) burners may not be able to prepare +R disks suitably for (older) DVD players. (For the technically MINDED, the word is "booktype".) My old burner bought in 2001 used to burn +R disks fine for my 2002 DVD player with no problems.

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