RE: [Dvdrtools-users] Pioneer Burners and 4x Media

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Scott Prive <address@hidden>:
> Thanks.
> What amazes me is these drives can *do* 4X DVD at all!! They were, after
> all, advertised as 2X drives. I'm very surprised the drives weren't
> capped at that speed, so they could turn around and sell a faster model
> later on (like Lite-On, etc do with CD-R drives).
> I seem to recall reading the DVD-R drives would "never" go beyond 2X due
> to the manner the data was linked. It must have been another one of
> those published lies at dvdplusrw.org ;-)

First it was a non-standard 3GB DVD-R+W drive and "rewrite" media that gave you
a whopping 400MB more than a 2.6GB DVD-RAM drive, even though the 4.7GB DVD-RAM
and DVD-RW specs were already drafted and the 3GB drive only sold in Japan.

Then it was the promise of a "faster, better, cheaper and, most insultingly,
'more compatible'" DVD+R "write once" media for DVD+RW, which ultimately
required you to "trash" your 1st generation DVD+RW drive.

Now it's the reports of 2nd gen DVD+RW drive owners complaining they cannot read
DVD+R "write once" discs in various players, even though DVD-R "write once"
discs work with basically everything.

I gave up on Sony/Philips a long time ago.  But I'm still looking forward to the
"unofficial DVD+RW FAQ guy" to proclaim "Toshiba purposely makes players
incompatible with DVD+R discs."

-- Bryan

P.S.  I'm still waiting on someone with a 3rd generation DVD-RAM drive to
confirm/deny they can record .iso images to DVD-R "write once" media.  Someone
previously mentioned they could "dd" an .iso image to a DVD-RAM "rewrite" media,
but that doesn't mean it works with the former.  I would rather just buy a 3rd
generation DVD-RAM drive, so I can both record DVD-R and rewrite to my old 1st
and 2nd gen DVD-RAM discs (I do a lot of long-term archivign), but I'll buy both
a DVD-RAM and DVD-RW drive if I have to (or just boot Windows for DVD-R on a
DVD-RAM drive).

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