Good for test burns and temporary content that I have no intention of keeping.
Dr. M
Doctor M said:
Good for test burns and temporary content that I have no intention of keeping.
You could just use a flash drive for temp content, but test burning is a nice idea.
I could burn a flash stick for moving data, but I don't have equipment for playing the content away from my computer.
Also my DVR/DVDr can't copy to flash only DVDs.
Dr. M
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Whats the life expectancy of a dvd DL +/- r after it has media burned to it ?.
Murry Sparkles said:
Whats the life expectancy of a dvd DL +/- r after it has media burned to it ?.
Depends on the brand, some do not even last 6 months, I have Verbatim DL's that are 3 & 4 years old and still read great, also I don't think anyone uses DL -r's, only +r's.
I just got some Vebatim SL DVDs and they're made in Taiwan. The DL DVDs are made in Singapore though. Do you think the quality differs very much from country to country?
TV's Frink said:
I was going to ask why someone would use RW's these days.
I use RW's to transfer off air recordings from my DVD/HDD recorder to the PC so that I can edit out adverts etc. Apart from that, nahh, they are pretty unreliable for storing anything long term. Imation RW's seem to be the most unreliable from my experience.
If television is chewing gum for the mind, then the prequels are the worlds first visual laxative.
dark_jedi said:
Depends on the brand, some do not even last 6 months, I have Verbatim DL's that are 3 & 4 years old and still read great, also I don't think anyone uses DL -r's, only +r's.
-R's are more popular in Japan than +R for some reason. I think I read somewhere that Taiyo Yuden didn't support +R DL because they found them unreliable to manufacture in high quality or high volume (or something like that), which is why they only make +R SL discs.
There is a lot of useful info at the site below about who manufacturers what discs and what countries they come from and what brands are recommended buy or avoid etc
http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm
Hope this helps.
If television is chewing gum for the mind, then the prequels are the worlds first visual laxative.
-r requires a licensing fee. Many manufacturers refuse to pay their competitors. It also increases disc costs to consumers.
+r is very similar and according to videohelp.com there is negligible difference in their usage or compatibility.
+r discs do have the advantage that they can be burned to mimic other disc types. Changing the book type is especially useful in writing DVD9's as DVD-ROM (instead of + or -). It provides increased compatibility.
Dr. M