6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
8:05 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: Preservation of correspondence
arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
My cheapo 1999 vintage dvd player likes dvd+r and not dvd-r (wont recognize
those). It also likes to play cdrs full of mp3's.
I did come across an article which was _slightly_
more technical
than the others I've seen. It boiled down to "DVD+R is better
because the way it tracks the data stream and the error correction
were both improved" (or something like that). Naturally I now canot
find any trace of it. (Not that it went into sufficient depth,
it just scratched the surface a little deeper than the other
articles I've seen).
And yet, DVD-R has traditionally been recognized as more compatible with
set-top devices. So go figure :-)
However, the basic substrate tech is the same between DVD and CD so my
comment about more error correction is still valid.
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Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/