See, that's my point, is "potatoe" or "potato" ? Unless the term "dash" is used to denote something technical , meaning which otherwise would be lost if one uses "minus", you can't say "minus" is incorrect, just because "that's the way it is, the way that people that set trends, or the ones that write the dictionary of politically correct speach, tell us is the the way it should be" . For ecample, R stands for recordable; RW is Re-Writable. R and RW have specifical technical meanings. What's the meaning of "dash"? What makes "minus" incorrect? To be honest, I always wondered. If someone has a technical explanation, not just "is the correct way, read the articles", I would like to know it.
so... the peeps who made the second type format looked at the "symbol" of - and thought we will go opposite and use +, this in itself stabbing the other compnay making it opposites and in effect a MINUS product. like shunning the - for there better +, it could of started as a dash/hypen more over than a minus, and as the 2 symbols progressed/war evolved became a minus, a lesser product, as advertizing is all about getting in ones head! like with video BETAMAX or VHS we all know BETAMAX was the best high qauilty tape, but advertizing got the lesser in of vhs shite.
cyprusrom I PM ed JoeRyan he will explain to us why DVD dash R is the correct term soon. and lol Rotary i still have a beta machine
This is my explanation, like I said in my post above, and like Rotary says, it's all about advertizing. That's my take on it!
Haha, DVD "Hyphen" R... I like that one. Okay look you guys are right, we kinda went overboard. When to comes to optical disc formats and their terminology there's too much damn ambiguity and not enough laid out rules. Let's put it to rest. Like I said though, "Dash" is the American pronunciation, and Minus is more of the British English term. Since I live in Australia were more inclined to go with British English over here. Besides, nobody calls DVD+R, DVD "Cross" R's, so the correct opposite of plus is minus. Anyways.. I'll make sure to inform people from now on that there's several takes on the pronunciation lol.