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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:16 +0000
From:      Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD burner questions
Message-ID:  <200311191106.16668.howells@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FBAF00E.4030205@twcny.rr.com>
References:  <3FBAF00E.4030205@twcny.rr.com>

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Hi,

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:22, Tom Parquette wrote:
> 1) I've seen DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD-R floating around.  What does
> the plus and minus signs indicate?

+RW and -RW are competing rewrite DVD standards. Typical of the computing=20
industry not to be able to standardise ;) The jury is still out on which is=
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the best.

If you're desparate for a DVD writer now, probably your best bet is to get =
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drive which can write to both standards. There are some Sony drives that ca=
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do this, which I've seen recommended, amongst others.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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