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   Wait till blue laser DVD's come out

   

   dorpus, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 12:40am

   
   

   to fuck shit up even more. And maybe someone will come out with tape or cartridge formats to store DVD data, given the physical vulnerabilities of a flat disc. Better yet, why not tape reel DVD's?
   
   
   

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   Appreciate the irony

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 7:05am

   
   

   I love how the people at Dell and HP claim that the multi-format drives are a waste and that they are pushing towards a single format... it's ironic because there was already a single format (DVD-R/RW) that was developed by the DVD standards forum. Dell, HP and others struck out on their own to create a proprietary non-compatible format, the DVD+R/RW format.
   
   The +R/RW format has one benefit over the -R/RW format:
   
   * You can delete files on a +RW disc and reclaim space, on a -RW disc you must delete everything to reuse the space (I never use RW discs so this doesn't affect me at all).
   
   For that one benefit, you will pay significantly more per disc than for the -R/RW format and lose some compatibility with DVD players. What a deal!
   
   I've had my Pioneer -R/RW drive for 1 year now and have had virtually zero problems with compatability. Some of the early, cheap 1x (v1.0) DVD-R media wasn't as compatible with some DVD players, however the new 2x (v2.0) rated discs are almost 100% compatible. I have yet to find a DVD player or DVD-ROM drive that can't read a name brand v2.0 DVD-R disc.

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   who cares

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 7:55pm

   
   

   This "issue" matters to tech journalists but probably not a whole lot of others. Removable media is on its way out anyway.

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