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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 04/16/07 22:45
In article <XMNUh.83538$aG1.4486@pd7urf3no>,
Stuart Miller <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
><edenesiuk@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
>news:1176680902.255879.254670@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> On Mar 30, 2:49 pm, Ron <ron_j_ma...@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>> Hi! .....
>>> My "Pioneer" 'DVR-310' DVD Recorder accepts
>>
>> I expect in a year I will have to buy a DVD recorder because VCRs are
>> being phased out. I use my V. continuously and wonder if the
>> recorder discs are as cheap to use/re-use daily. The tapes for V
>> are reusable for a long time is this true of D discs.
>>
>I have seen conflicting data on this. Some people have expereinced failures
>after as few as 10 write/erase cycles. There are posts about this in the
>various dvd newsgroups.
>
>Also, some people have experienced significant signal loss on rewriteabe
>dvd's after month or years, so this apparently should not be considered a
>permanant media.
>
>Your mileage may vary.....
>
>Stuart
The more expensive DVD-RAM disks - which would be fine if he's
going to use them over and over - are good for thousands of
write/erase cycles. They act more like small hard-drives and can
actually be used as re-writeable filesystems for OSes that
support it.
Bill
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