A Question About DVD+R's?

[PC-GUY]

I thought this would be a good question for chickenman or any one who knows about the life of DVD+R'S. Well I was under the impression that + media was all good media but I called Meritline.co and the guy I got on the phone didn't seem to think that. In fact he said that you can still have problems read your data on the dvd+r disc over time, so my question is has anyone ran into this problem? I just order [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]the OptoRite DD0401 to replace my A04 so I was looking into buy some + r media and I don't need to learn from my mistakes six months from now. Thanks [/font]

 

[ChickenMan]

The long term like of -R or +R dvdr disk is a bit unknown, they havent been around long enough yet. The -R's have been around a lot longer though and no major problems known yet.

I assume the OptoRite burner can do +R and -R's. Then if your had no problems with your -R burns and dvd palyer reading from your A04, then why even waste your time with +R's (other than a curiosity), you have absolutely nothing to gain.

 

[PC-GUY]

The long term like of -R or +R dvdr disk is a bit unknown, they havent been around long enough yet. The -R's have been around a lot longer though and no major problems known yet.

I assume the OptoRite burner can do +R and -R's. Then if your had no problems with your -R burns and dvd palyer reading from your A04, then why even waste your time with +R's (other than a curiosity), you have absolutely nothing to gain.

Speed the OptoRite can burn some 4x DVD+Rs at 8x and like you say it curiosity so I would like to try that.

 

[ChickenMan]

For any disk made and designed for 4x burning then to be burnt at 8x is just asking for problems, regardless of what OptoRite says. The disk manufactureres/sellers are continually changing suppiers and media and all these are outside OptoRites control. Buy some genuine 8x disks and go from there.