The Most Compatible DVD Format: DVD-R

jbridges writes "CDR-Info tested eight types of media (two examples of each media type) using five different recorders, then tested compatibility in twenty-seven standalone DVD players and twenty DVD-ROM drives. They determined that DVD-R is clearly the most compatible DVD recording format on the market. To assess the compatibility level of DVD Formats they created video content on a DVD writer using DVD-R/RW and +R/RW media. These discs were then played back in other DVD players and DVD-ROM drives -over a 1,000 combinations of drive, media and player were tested."

Comments

I have the most compatible format of all.

[Anonymous Coward]

I carve all of my information into stone tablets unearthed not near here.

To date, I have yet to find a computer that these tablets are incompatible with.

Of course, the only thing I *do* with these computers is smash them to bits with my stone tablets when their owners owe my boss money, but you know how it is.

plus

[iosmart]

who likes to say "dvd plus arr"?? "dvd arr" works much better! and if you say "dvd dash arr", do you also say "cd dash arr" and "cd dash arr double you"? then again no "cd plus arr" exists...

Re:plus

[kotj.mf]

There's a pirate joke in there somewhere, just waiting to come out.

Hmmm...

Me DVD's be jolly swashbucklin' sorts, matey. Arrr...

Nah...

Standard Answer #6

[bryanp]

I'm tired of writing the same replies to people who say "I'll wait until they're cheaper and a single format wins." So here, I'll just link-whore myself to my own earlier posts -

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=71465&cid=6465 127

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70097&cid=6378 178

Re:what about DVD-RAM!!!!

[mikewren420]

Yes, we don't have a clear winner... but we do have a clear loser :)