Rogério Brito wrote (Thursday 18 August 2005 5:14 pm): > On Aug 17 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 2:06 pm): > > > Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs > > > that you burn on regular computer or standalone drives? I have only had > > > success when using DVD-R media, not with the other variants (DVD+RW or > > > DVD-RW; I don't have DVD+R media). > > > > I seem to be able to. My DVD-ROM drive on hdd hasn't complained about any > > of them. I did have some troubles with some lab computers at uni, but I > > believe that to be a different issue entirely. But my test sample isn't > > large enough. > > Which portable do you have?
Portable? I don't have any portable. You might've misunderstood me. > > This whole +/- thing is stupid. So, what, now they're going to do it > > again, worse, with HDDVD/BlueRay or whatever? Peh. > > I'm unfortunately not up to date with the new technologies that are > coming. If you could describe their differences in a simple way, I'd be > very grateful. I'm not well versed in the technical differences, either, but I've been hearing about two incompatible standards and it doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Betamax VS VHS was before my time, but I can see how the frustrations that must've been present in the early days will happen all over again. Unless I'm terribly misinformed. :-) Peace, Brendon
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