From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 03:06:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2ACD16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (82-68-135-38.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.68.135.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F396B43FDF for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost.invalid (0-c-6e-e5-27-1.middleearth [192.168.1.194]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDB9133A9 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <3FBAF00E.4030205@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3FBAF00E.4030205@twcny.rr.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5863 DF82 C34D 7291 CC63 CA1B 17C2 2ED7 3379 5A2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200311191106.16668.howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: DVD burner questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:22 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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= =20 the best. If you're desparate for a DVD writer now, probably your best bet is to get = a=20 drive which can write to both standards. There are some Sony drives that ca= n=20 do this, which I've seen recommended, amongst others. =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/u06oF8Iu1zN5WiwRAho9AJ4vIwc7gog4+PF64mNNfiyewgzaJQCgj9Kw i3ag8o/1AcZ7Lqib5CbDJog=3D =3DEpc7 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----