02 Oct, 2007
Which is better, DVD-R or DVD+R?
Posted by: admin In: Uncategorized
+r and -r doesn’t matter really. most dvd players will play both formats. brand is up to you. lots and lots of people swear that verbatim is the best. i tend to go with whatever is on sale at the time
i think the factor that makes or breaks playability is the speed that you write it at. i tend to never write anything at over a 4x speed. even if it says 16x, don’t get tricked into thinking that 16x is an ok speed to write a dvd video at.
it’s really stupid because i have several philips dvd players, in fact 2 of them are the exact same models. sometimes a dvd written at 8x+ speed will work in one dvd player, but will stutter a few times in the other dvd player, even though it’s the exact same model.
although i’m sure this doesn’t matter, i have had a liteon dvd burner crap out on me after burning several hundred dvds. it stopped wanting to read cdroms, cdrw, etc - but still burnt dvd-+rs fine. then one day it totally died. i got my money’s worth out of it by that time..
Also:
Those experts at cdfreaks swear that +R is better.
they typically recommend +R for movies, -R for data.