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Dell Throws In For The +R/+RW Standard

Posted by timothy on from the mike-thinks-positive dept.

srothroc writes "Dell has been selling DVD+R burners for a while, but now they're tossing them in on free deals with some decent everyday consumer systems. I wonder if this increased support from one of two companies to pull a profit on PCs is going to tip the scale towards the +R format... If not, what's going to happen to the Dell users who have all of these +R drives if it turns out that -R wins out in the long run?"

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  1. HP's computer division is profitable by Branka96 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Instead of relying on a Steve Jobs interview in Rolling Stone what about going to the source ( HP Q4). Fiorina was so proud that ALL divisions of HP were profitable. Aparently you missed that.
    Of course for adoption, being profitable is totally irrelevant. Volume is the important thing.
    As for users of previous formats, ask yourself what happend to Apple's users who bought DVD-RAM with their G4.

  2. IT MAY BE A MISTAKE OF THE TECH WRITERS by clevelandguru · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I searched the DELL site and I couldn't find any product or page where they mention DVD+-RW. I would guess that a big company like DELL would offer a drive that supports both DVD+ and DVD- formats when it is available in the market. Most of the drives in the current market support both DVD+ and DVD- formats for as low as $120. It might be the mistake of the technical writers at DELL to refere DVD+-RW as just DVD+R.