been woundering this for about a year now witch one will they do away with like casset tapes and betamax???
I don't think either one is gonna [bold]win[/bold]. I think they'll both be around for a long time to come, but, if I [bold]had[/bold] to choose one, I'd say +R, since they possess the ability to be Booktyped. About the only thing that will do away with +R or -R media, is High Def dvds, and that won't happen for awhile. If and when it ever does happen, it looks like you'll still have to choose between HD DVD or Blu Ray DVD. There will always be a format battle of some kind............
Plus wins out on the booktyping capable drives-no contest. For the non-booktyping capable drives,Dash wins by a mile! Plus and dash is just a little skirmish.Wait till the Blu-ray and Hi-Def clashes. Playing a new sony release,you'll have to have the blue-ray player. Play someone elses release-you may have to have a HD player! Unless someone creates a player that will do both?
I say dvd-r my RitekG05's will play on dvd players that say they will only play dvd+r's...Ritek rocks (dvd-r)
My stepfather has a dvd player that won't play +R or -R discs. I have tried many times. When I use a +R booktyped to DVD Rom, it plays flawlessly. )
I say +R is going to win due to how much more compatible the booktyped +Rs are and the fact that more and more burners are supporting booktyping. So, I say +R and the drive manufacturers seem to agree. Personaly, I'd like to see further developement in burned disc compatibility. Even though bitsetting is a well proven method, you're still telling a disc of one type to act or present itself as -something else-. So, i'd like to see a new method of creating a -ROM besides bitsetting or pressing the disc (like retail movie dvds).
I would say the + wins. When book typed it's more compatibility since the reflectivity more closely mimics that of a pressed DVD.
You have to booktype the +R as -R for some DVD players. However with some you will never have any luck.
For just default format -Rs win hands down, but as stated before once book-typed to DVD-ROM +Rs take it...I only use +Rs now...
DVD-R has two disadvantages: 1) it requires two lasers to make a glass master, and 2) it requires recording of special data after manufacturing. It is a bit more difficult to mold because of the pre-pit system used for data addressing, but it conforms to the DVD Forum specifications and works with most DVD players. DVD+R is a newer format that does not conform to DVD Forum specs. For this reason, older players often have difficulty recognizing the discs as recordable discs without the specified DVD-R signals. (Some players and recorders, such as early Panasonic models, refused to play DVD+R discs precisely because they did not conform.) Resetting the book type to DVD-ROM for DVD+R discs changes its ID code so that a drive that neither understands recordable discs nor recognizes non-DVD-R discs can be fooled into accepting DVD+R discs. DVD+R is easier to manufacture, and the high frequency addressing system is slightly more reliable than DVD-R's pre-pits. In general terms, there is little significant differences between the two in terms of materials or cost. The real difference is between DVD+RW (a video and data format) and DVD-RW, a bulky video format that can be forced to accept data in video sequential recording only.
