Posted by Anthony Marsh on 12/07/06 05:28

Citizen Bob wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:45:24 +1100, rob <rob@spamoff.net> wrote:
>
>> Sony are dropping support for DVD+R in a lot of their products now.
>
> Quality DVD+R (Taiyo Yuden) is more expensive than TY DVD-R at the
> wholesale level.
>
> Check it out at one of the largest wholesalers on the Internet,
> rima.com.
>
> What does TY know that we do not know? Could it be that demand for
> DVD-R is substantially greater than DVD+R?
>

Some people might prefer the DVD-R because it can be used instantly in a
settop unit, whereas a DVD+R needs to be formatted first and then can
only be used in that particular settop unit.

> Naw.
>
>
> --
>
> "Yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain
> ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or
> alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to
> the trust reposed in them....And thus the community perpetually retains
> a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of
> any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish
> or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and
> properties of the subject."
> --John Locke
>

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