DVD +/- writable media comparision

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:09 am

For those who are interested in issues of compatibility, especially for making DVDs with amvs on, you may be interested in this fairly extensive review:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Article ... ty%20Tests

The main part of interest is the fact that the -R media largely outperforms +R in compatibility when tested on a large amount of drives.

CDR-Info, has determined that DVD-R is clearly the most compatible DVD recording format on the market. To assess the compatibility level of DVD Formats we created video content on a DVD writer using DVD-R/RW and +R/RW media. These discs were then played back in other DVD players and DVD-ROM drives –over a 1,000 combinations of drive, media and player were tested.

That should keep the +R marketing quiet a little. Not that +R is a teriible thing, but equally the compaitibility stats the +R companies have come up with look way off.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:09 am

The tables also seem to indicate that the Pioneer DVR-A05 is the drive to get and use with DVD-R. I would assume this extends to the entire DVR series (A03 - A06).

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:56 pm

I just bought an a05 on Friday (black bezel, sale at Fry's for $179, matches my case yay!). That plus Pioneer media (which is also labelled as Apple DVD-Rs) scored 100% compatability in the CDRInfo tests, along with the a05 + Maxell blanks.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:26 pm

Yeah, it's a shame they never tested the verbatim -Rs... only the +Rs.