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Dual Format DVD Writer

  • 17-01-2005 9:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Quick question - I'm getting a notebook with "DVD Writer dual format (+/-R +/-RW)". Could someone please explain to me what this is and will it write CD-RWs and CD-Rs as well? Sorry if it's a stupid question :)

    Thanks!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    yes it will do all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    How come on some computers it says "Combo dvd+r/rw & cd-writer drive" and on others it says "DVD Writer dual format (+/-R +/-RW)". What's the difference between the two, how come they don't have the Dual spec as Dual DVD & cd-writer drive to make it easier for people like me? :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    tinkerbell wrote:
    How come on some computers it says "Combo dvd+r/rw & cd-writer drive" and on others it says "DVD Writer dual format (+/-R +/-RW)". What's the difference between the two, how come they don't have the Dual spec as Dual DVD & cd-writer drive to make it easier for people like me? :)
    Because there are a number of different formats to make it hard on everyone :D Plus and minus are two formats, each with their own Readonly and Rewritable varieties. They are not interchangable, i.e. a Plus only drive won't recognise a Minus disk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    All this +/- is very complicated :) All I want is to burn CDs and DVDs :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 807 ✭✭✭ViperVenoM


    sounds pretty much like the one ur getting supports most of the stuff my NEC3500 does..and i can throw any type of disc at this and it will read/write fine so you shouldnt need to be confused...it should read em all! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Wahey! Does that mean that there's a CD-RW+ and a CD-RW- as well? Oooh and one more question, if I burn a DVD on dual format, does that mean that it'll be recognised in any drive, or by dual do they mean that it'll write RW- and RW+ instead of RW+- or whatever the correct term may be?

    Like I said before, if the manufacturer people just wrote "this burns DVDs and CDs" on the spec of the pc, I wouldn't be having this problem :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    tinkerbell wrote:
    Wahey! Does that mean that there's a CD-RW+ and a CD-RW- as well?
    No, though with those 99 minute CDs that sometimes burn and can sometimes be read it might as well be as confusing. There's only one CDRW format though.
    Oooh and one more question, if I burn a DVD on dual format, does that mean that it'll be recognised in any drive, or by dual do they mean that it'll write RW- and RW+ instead of RW+- or whatever the correct term may be?
    Confusion reigns here as well. I've seen a DVD writer in PC World with "Dual writer" on the box. They meant dual format (as in "writes DVDs of the + and - variety) but no dual-layer burning there. "Dual layer" is dual layer though, meaning "writes dual layer discs that can have a 9.8GB capacity as opposed to the regular 4.7GB capacity". Some players will only recognise one or the other of the +R/RW or -R/RW varieties. That applies to players in computers and consumer players under a TV as well.
    Like I said before, if the manufacturer people just wrote "this burns DVDs and CDs" on the spec of the pc, I wouldn't be having this problem :D
    Ah now that would be far too sensible... Heavens, they might even sell a few more if they did that.


    Your notebook drive will write and read both +R/RW and -R/RW formats. There's no guarantee that it'll be able to write a dual-layer disc. Not that this matters so much at the moment with the high price of the dual-layer media (about a tenner a disc as opposed to anything down to about 20 cents for the single-layer discs).


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