DVR-R , DVD+R, DVD-RAM: What's the Difference?
Home-burned DVDs are not exotic anymore. In fact, for most professionals shooting weddings and events, DVD is a required distribution format. Some confusion still exists about the various flavors of DVD available to the consumer and how this affects compatibility. The good news is that we can clear things up with one short article.
Before we get into any technical details about the DVD format, let us put your mind at rest with a simple statement: the factors that determine DVD compatibility rest almost entirely with the DVD player. The software you use, the computer platform, the brand of burner, the format of the discs and the brand of media all have less to do with compatibility than the standalone living room player used to play back the disc. In fact, the player effectively overrides any differences we've discovered between DVD-R and DVD+R, for example. In other words, when we've tested a $50 MegaMart DVD player and found that it plays DVD-R discs, we've found that it tends to play DVD+R discs as well.
So what are content producers to do? Of course we should try to make our discs as compatible as possible. That means doing a little research (like you are doing right now) to understand a bit more about the techn…
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