[TriLUG] Best Linux-supported CDRW?

[Dave Schwartzburg]

Just buy the new Sony drive out there that writes to DVD-R, DVD-RW, 
DVD+R, and DVD+RW.  It goes for about $330 I think.  That way you can't 
lose the format war.  I don't know how it works with Linux, since I 
don't have one...

Jeff Jackowski wrote:

>On 16 Oct 2002, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:36, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
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>>>More confusing than you think. I wasn't refering to DVD+R at all -- I've 
>>>never used those. There are good DVD-R's, like the Verbatim and TDK disks, 
>>>that can be played by most DVD players (assuming they are given the right 
>>>data). There are also cheap, lower quality DVD-R's that will play in only 
>>>a few, if any, DVD players. For under $0.75 per disk, its a great way to 
>>>store data you intend to read from a DVD-ROM drive, just not a DVD player.
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>>Hmm.  I now see why web sites like meritline.com are pretty useful in
>>determining which media works with which players.  Annoying how the
>>manufacturer's descriptions are just about equivalent for every brand --
>>they all say their DVD-R's work with "most" DVD players, but apparently
>>the cheap ones don't do that at all!
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>I have even observered that if some cheap disks are written with 
>Panasonic's DVD-R (and DVD-RAM?) drive, it won't work with my DVD player, 
>but when I write the disk with a Pioneer drive, the result plays back fine 
>on my DVD player. Really strange.
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>>>That said, it is to my understanding that the good DVD-R's are usable with 
>>>more DVD players than DVD+R, but I could be wrong.
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>>>In case you're thinking that DVD+R is just a higher quality version of 
>>>DVD-R, you are mistaken. The media is physically different requiring a 
>>>different drive to write to the DVD-R and DVD+R disks. A few companies 
>>>thought a format war would be fun and profitable. Nope. The DVD standards 
>>>body endorses the DVD-R format.
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>>Thanks for the clarification.  Despite the fact that you say DVD-R was
>>endorsed by the "DVD standards body,"  it seems that DVD+R is much more
>>common at stores like meritline, and CompUSA, which has a TON of DVD+R
>>media (and DVD+RW), but just a few kinds of DVD-R.  (The DVD+R stuff
>>seems to be much more expensive.)  I don't think the war's won yet!  :-)
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>You may want to look again. Meritline's selection of DVD-R's is larger 
>than their combined selection of DVD+R and DVD+RW. They also have double 
>sided DVD-R's but no such thing for DVD+R.
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>While the silly format war might not be over, I think the DVD-R/RW stuff 
>will be supported for a few years. It looks like it has the needed 
>support, especially from the Mac users. So I'm happy since I bought a 
>DVD-R/RW drive  :-)
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