Posted by Cardinal Chunder on 02/19/07 14:34

DVDfever Dom wrote:
> On 19 Feb, 13:02, "Ed" <eabow...@onetel.com> wrote:
>> Forgetting about HD and bluray, which recordable DVD format is the
>> best?
>>
>> The reason I ask is I was backing up some old tapes onto DVD for my
>> brother, and he gave me a spindle of DVD+R discs. Previously I have
>> used only DVD-R discs for recordings that I want to write once and
>> finalise into DVD-Video, and DVD-RAM for timeshifting before we got a
>> PVR.
>>
>> Is one of the +R or -R better for any reason, or are they
>> interchangeable?
>>
>> Apologies for my ignorance!
>>
> I record to DVD+RW as that's what my Philips recorder will take (as
> well as +R but these are discs I want to reuse) and after I've made a
> DVD on my PC I record it to DVD-R (Datawrite Yellow top) as -R, last
> time I checked, tended to be cheaper than +R, although prices have
> crumbled since I started buying blank DVDs so I'd have to check to see
> what the difference is now, but I'll just stick with what I know
> works.
>
> I get mine from www.digitalpromo.co.uk
>

That looks like a good site for cables and stuff. HDMI cables especially.

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