Posted by Spring on 12/05/06 07:04

SONY uses DVD+R in their products. When the company is too big, they sell
their products on band logo. Most customers become victum of their marketing
trick. If you are on SONY side, you have better use DVD+R. If you hate SONY
products, you have better use DVD-R.


<aniramca@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Do you think that the video format war for the DVD will be over soon?
> I still do not see that one format is overpowering the other. I have a
> few questions about these formats
> - Which one was the one first to come out?
> - When you buy a DVD movie from a store. Is it a DVD-R? It has the
> same symbol as DVD-R (The DVD+R symbol just a box with RW written on
> it). The DVD movie, as well as DVD-R has the disk picture logo on it.
> - Is dual layer DVD applicable for both the DVD-R and DVD+R?
> - In the past, some movie's DVDs were written on both sides (sometimes
> one language on one side and another on the other side). Could you buy
> such a DVD in the market?. Do you have to have a special device to
> record or to play?
> - Technically, which one is more superior? DVD-R or DVD+R ? If DVD+R
> came up later than DVD-R, did it means better and newer technology?
> - Is it technically more complicated to produce a DVD recorder which is
> capable to handle both DVDs? Or, it is just a simple switch technology
> inside the box. If this is the case, then those DVD producer must have
> vested interest with one type of DVD over the other. My LiteOn brand
> DVD recorder is cheap (now under $100), and has the convenient to to
> both? Why not other manufacturers follow suit (except for those who
> invested one format over the other).
> I seem to notice that DVD writers for computers appear to be accepting
> both formats more readily than those stand alone DVD recorders/players
> to record from TV.
> - When people invented CD-R or DVD disk years ago, they indicated that
> using the CD or DVD technology is different from a music/video tape, or
> LPs. Unlike those other old cassette, LPs, there is NO contact when you
> play a Cd or DVD. However, I notice that CD and DVD have lots of
> scratches after a while. How do these scratches created?
> - Final question - where do you find a DVD disks that guarantee that
> the recorded data will last a long time. Is there a special DVD (DVD
> gold or something) that can guarantee the data will not disappear
> (permanent) after it is recorded. I seem to only notice one type or
> grade for DVD disks, but I may be wrong.
>
> I know that these DVDs may be replaced with either Sony's Blu-ray or
> the HD-DVD. However, I still do not see that DVD-R or DVD+R comes as a
> winner, unlike the battle between Sony Betamax and VHS format. It is
> more convenient when you look at CD-R, there is only one type available.
>
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