On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:39 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > Another thing to consider. I was told by Lite-On technical support > people that DVD+R disks are more forgiving than DVD-R. I have > certainly had fewer problems on my stand-alone recorder since changing > to +R. According to the spiel about it, the wiggle to the track on the +R discs means that the laser can very easily find its location, and can start and stop burning at will. Contrarily, the -R discs have a simple spiral that's harder to track, and write stop and starts involve padding the ending and new start with something that's not data (so it can't do it instantly). Think of it like driving a car blindly. You can either keep bouncing off the sides of the road, trying to keep in the middle. Or have rumble strips that run under the edges of your tires all the time that you're on track. I just wish they'd sorted themselves out before foisting two different standards on us, and that they'd build better drives. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
