I just bought some DVD's for work to record movies on from my computer. I purchased DVD+R. When I got back to work, I realized the ones I used before were DVD-R. What is the difference between these? Will the DVD+R ones still work for the same thing?
2006-09-28 07:25:56 · 4 answers · asked by Huliganjetta 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
almost no different for 99.9% of user now a day.
Most recent DVD player support both format just as well.
And most recent DVD burner will burn DVD with both DVD-R and DVD+R just fine.
If you have burner and player that's more than few years old, then should double check just in case.
You can get a bit more about why there are 2 formats(commercial reason and which companies support which format) from these pages
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/2279
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/110
This site contain some technical different but probably too boring for most people.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113
2006-09-28 07:32:03 · answer #1 · answered by jrichard377 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just two diferent formats. It's like having two Video Tapes, a VHS and Beta. A lot of the DVD players will play both DVD+R or DVD-R. Some DVD players will only play one type, just like the Beta VCRs and VHS VCRs.
Hope it helps...
2006-09-28 14:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by IO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends...some writers only use DVD -R
and some only use DVD +R
My machine runs both...depending on your driver will depend on your answer.
2006-09-28 14:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by Johnny A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dvd-r is just the dvd writer,,
and dvd+r is the dvd re-writer...
i guess!!
thanx
2006-09-28 14:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by kriss 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋