DVD Burning Tutorials ?

[elpresidente]

Whooooooooo want some ?

[zver]

Thats a good ambitius mod,i love this idea...Bud,im in process of bying new hardware(and idea of getting new drive-dvd rewritable is looking better for me every day comparing to cdrw)..How about to add higlight and cons for standards....I did search the net for answers-but is not clear to me still(well,i might be slow thinker--but i cant fix that )and if you can put simple words-so people who are not good in english like me can understand it better......also your personal opinion about them(standards),couse i saw youre doing that stuff,so i can belive that i will be adviced by somebody who knows the s..t good

[elpresidente]

hmm.. ok... i can´t really explain the technical pros & cons of DVD-R/RW -RAM +R/RW

I can only write down my personal opinion... maybe somebody isn´t my opionon ...just post yours ..

1. DVD-R/W

seems like -R (pioneer) will be the standard for DVDwriteOnce media.. Sony announced a DVD Writer which is able to write -R and + RW ....
-R is available for longer time than +R is (since CeBit?! not very old this standard) this is why the medias r cheaper ... there r also very cheap brand DVD-rs cause in Apple computers the Pioneer A03 is built in (superdrive or something like that )
-R/RW works fine in standalone players

2.DVD -RAM

I think the advantage in -Ram is the "caddy" where the real medium is in it ... (good for liftime) so good for Data Storage ..
but u can´t read it in standard DVD-Rom Drives

3.DVD+r/W
I think +RW discs r as "cheap" as -RWs are ... I read somewhere that this would be the future standard of rewritable DVDs...
+R ? somebody who saw them ? *lol* -R will win the race

So... The best choice at this time (for me and my DVD Movie backups ) is the pioneer A03.
If u don´t want to buy a writer right now... there will be combo drives which r able to write more than just one standard @ the end of this year ..maybe earlier..

[zver]

Thanks,bud..Its a better now,but still......Why they dont make 1 standard for all(every dvd can read and write everything)...... Thanks bud

[elpresidente]

don´t know why they didn´t make one standard ... maybe because pioneer thought that their standard is better than the standard of Ricoh, philips, ....
or they all put much money into development of a standard ... and now they don´t want to switch over to a standard of another company ?

just a question of time ... then there will be only one standard

but it´s not interesting if -RW survives or not ...cause it will be readable in future ....

greetz

[ChickenMan]

Originally posted by elpresidente

but it´s not interesting if -RW survives or not ...cause it will be readable in future ....

greetz

I think that is the main point. We the user want something that can play on our current equipment today and into the future. End of story.

[zver]

Thats right,i dont mine paying 500$ for drive,but i want to know that will work today and in future too(and that standard which i choose wont dissapeer soon )...

[elpresidente]

hmm... yep... maybe I didn´t understand your "mainpoint"
cause it´s not important if the RW standard is + or - cause U R STILL ABLE to Produce RW and everybody is able to read it ... but the only thing is that there aren´t any writers which r able to write this standard ... so ... whats the problem ?

[elpresidente]

yep thats right ... but .. the difference between VCR and DVD recordable is that -RW+R/W can be read in every drive ...and VCR not ...

greetz