Hi, I was wondering if any dvd burners already come Booktyped or Bittset, so I don't have to do it myself... Thank You....
hi not that i'm aware of.. the drive does what its instructed to do by its burn engine and whether the media is booktype compliant (-r no...+r yes) i believe nero auto bitsets +r media
@ofield I left you two replies at the other forum (Freaks). I have a 20x LiteOn DVDRW LH-20A1P that I upgraded the firmware to KLON. I didn't have to use any software/utilities for it to bitset a DVD+R to DVD Rom. You only can bitset +R media; their was talk of -R, but never came to be. If you don't want to bitset -R media is actually more compatible than +R with no bitsetting. Bitsetting came about for compatability reason only. I used to use just -R when I first started burning in 2002 or 2003 (I forget on too many painkillers. LOL). Now every drive I have I can bitset if I want too. So now I have more options when I buy my dvds when on sale (Might be out of - or +). I watch for Verbatim for me and Sony,Maxell for give aways. Ty's are hard to come by and the shipping cand be expensive to order online. I know you asked about external in the othe forum. I have that drive in a Vantec NexStar DX (Part of NexStar 3 enclosures). Burn On, Russell
There is no need to bitset -R media, as far as I know. Bitsetting is for +R media to make the disc show as DVD-ROM, which will enable it to play in many of the older set top DVD players. -R media is already DVD-ROM.
hi Grandpa my understanding was that -r isn't the same as -rom because of the these reasons -r and +r are once only recordable media -r is not -rom -rom = read only memory (not recordable too) that is how they come from the record companies (only they are pressed and not burned) -r means that it has the ability to be recorded on to once only and the disc's precoded info is not changable +r is as -r..except that the precoded info can be changed ie. bitset. once a +r disc has been bitset (-rom) it fools the player to believe its a pressed -rom and therefore plays it in 99% off players
If you burn your home movies on a -R disc, and look at the disc in DVDinfoPro, or other software of that type, it will most definitely show as DVD-ROM. If you burn a +R disc, the same way, and you don't bitset it, it will show up as +R. If you bitset, it shows up as DVD-ROM.
hi must admit i've never looked... will do so. the trouble is it gets to teck' for my limited knowledge from here in
From Wikipedia.... "DVD (also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc" - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are video and data storage. Most DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs (CDs) but store more than 6 times the data. Variations of the term DVD often describe the way data is stored on the discs: DVD-ROM has data which can only be read and not written, DVD-R can be written once and then functions as a DVD-ROM, and DVD-RAM or DVD-RW holds data that can be re-written multiple times."
