- +RW or -RW, That is the question
- Posted by Lew on November 9th, 2005
Which format is likely to take over? Will +RW become the disc
equivalent of VHS and -RW become Beta? Or vice versa?
I am about to junk all my VCRs and switch over to a machine that has a
hard drive and a DVD recorder in it, and have a few other machines
around the house that are just DVD recorders or DVD/VHS dual decks.
I don't want to make a "Beta" decision. I want to select the format
that will be the most prevalent format in the future.
One other thought -- for back up purposes, a while back tape drives
were a short-lived rage, then zip drives and imation superdrives came
and went, now memory sticks and external and/or minihard drives are
making zip drives meaningless. What is the near future for DVD
formats? Are the current DVDs going to be active for a few more years
and then be replaced by something that is something the size of a
backspace key and stores 200 gigs? How heavily should a person invest
in DVD machinery?
- Posted by Phil Wheeler on November 9th, 2005
Lew wrote:
Stone tablets look like a safe bet 
- Posted by nb on November 9th, 2005
"Lew" <lwsrndn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Neither will "take over", you obviously haven't heard about HDdvd or
Blu-ray.
- Posted by Lew on November 9th, 2005
Obviously. That's the purpose of the entire last paragraph, which you
obviously didn't read.
So, what do I need to know about HDdvd and Blu-ray that would preclude
me from investing in +RW or -RW equipment?
nb wrote:
- Posted by nb on November 9th, 2005
"Lew" <lwsrndn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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There's no technology that will last forever. I guess I don't understand
your concern about investing in +- RW equipment, standalone recorders with
hard drives are not that expensive and neither are dvd burners for pc's.
Enjoy and use what's available now. HD and Bluray will store 10 times the
amount of data on current machines but they will be very expensive for a
very long time. And the obsession with RW media, it's more than twice the
price of good quality R media and other than being rewritable offers no
advantage.
- Posted by Jan B on November 10th, 2005
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:51:10 GMT, "nb" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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Just note that in certain cases +RW adds functionality over +R.
DVD+RW discs used in (at least Philips) +RW standalone Recorder
(without HDD) makes it possible to play the disc as edited with cuts
and chapter marks in DVD-Players.
A +R disc will play, but not as edited and chapter marks added after
the recording will not be recognised.
/Jan
