DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet?

Rob writes "Ok, so I've finally gotten my TiVo configured to let me extract and archive video, now I'm wondering what is my best solution? I currently have a CDR that I've been able to use to save both VCD and SVCD. Unfortunately I have a very old DVD player that will only play VCD's. So I decided that it's time to look at recording to DVD, but what is the right answer? Has any format won? I just got back from Fry's and I could get either -R/-RW or +R/+RW and there were even drives that did all of the formats. This is all well and good, since I'll have to buy a new DVD player to play any of them, but which format is most widely accepted? Even if I get a drive that will record in any format what do most DVD players accept? Sure I can make sure that my DVD player will play whatever format I produce but what about my parents and friends?"

Comments

Re:Easy, read http://www.dvdrhelp.com

[splink splink]

I think your answer is informative and the dvdrhelp site provides lots of information, but a simple Google search may not have provided the information Cliff desired. I know you're not trying to troll, but here's my take on why he asked Slashdot.

It may smack of insanity to many, but Slashdot is a community (okay, a vocal, opinionated group that will share their opinions wether you want them to or not). Cliff is asking for an opinion from his community - something more than the fact sheets from manufacturers or "unknown entity" opinions found in a random search.

Does that mean that the information he'll get from asking Slashdot will be better than the results of a Google search? Maybe not. Slashdot is just as good of a choice for disinformation as any other site on the web - but at least he'll have context - and he'll have chosen the source of his information, for better or worse.