[TheForge] Was Tape rentals : Now DVD +- <YAKish>

[Kevin Hall]

Just for a note. My system came with a DVD-Ram drive. It is a CD-RW/DVD-Ram 
drive. I have burned CD-R and CD-RW with this drive. I have not yet tried 
DVD-R disks yet, but for DVD Rewrite, it needs DVD-RAM disks. It cannot use 
DVD+RW or DVD-RW. As far as the two sided. I'm not sure that is readily 
available to the public yet, The DVD-RAM disks I've seen are Single Sided. 
There a little more info here.
http://www.idvd.ca/dvd-formats-explained.htm

Kevin

At 01:53 AM 12/5/2003, you wrote:

>Mike Linn wrote:
> >
> > I'm considering getting a DVD burner w/ software and even with the posts
> > that have going around here Im not sure of the difference between DVD +R,
> > DVD -R, DVD +RW and DVD -RW and how they relate to computer DVD drives and
> > Video DVD machines.
>
>         I have a Sony DVD RW.  It has interfaces for USB 2.0 and Firewire.
>         It supports every format except DVD RAM.  far as I know, not
>         combo drive does all formats AND DVD RAM.  FYI, DVD RAM is a
>         rewritable DVD that burns to both sides of the disk, thereby
>         doubling the 4.7G capacity to 9.4, which is very nice for
>         backups.  A DVD RAM will not, as far as I know, write regular
>         DVDs, CDROM, CD R/W, etc., so they are of  little use as
>         multi-media devices.
>
>         I paid something like $269 for the drive and I think it was
>         well worth the outlay.  I got it at Fry's.