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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. d3ll 5uck5 by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

    Dude, you're getting screwed.

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  2. Old standards. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    Fuck 'em. My friend never got reimbursed for his choice of a Bernoulli drive, and that was a lot more than 100 bucks down the drain.

    Sometimes you bet on the wrong horse. It happens.

    --saint

  3. Nothing Happens by lordvdr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DVDs will forever READ both +R and -R. If -R were to win right now, in 1-2 years you wouldn't be able to buy DVD+R discs. That means you'd have to buy a new drive. That's not unreasonable for 1-2 years.

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  4. Now Dell ads are news???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't believe this. Someone links to a Dell ad for a free DVD burner, and now all of a sudden, "it's a shift in the industry". What the fuck, April Fool's isn't for another few months!

  5. It doesn't matter by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It really doesn't. There are enough shipped DVD-R and DVD+R drives out there in the world now that you'll be able to buy media for the foreseeable computing future for either. There are enough of each out there now that your current burned DVD's will be readable forever, or at least as long at 5 inch polycarbonate disks are in use. Even the VHS/Beta battle that started 30 years ago and was, for all intents and purposes, over 20 years ago (see http://www.urbanlegends.com/products/beta_vs_vhs.h tml ) doesn't keep me from buying new blank Beta videotapes. They aren't available at Walgreen's, but can be had at larger electronics stores still. The same will be true of DVD-R and DVD+R. Can you imagine the computing landscape 30 years from now? VHS hasn't changed in that many years, but 30 years ago in the computing field is ancient, ancient history - punched cards, hard-sectored 8 inch 256KB floppies, removable disk packs, and memory capacities that didn't need to be abbreviated to be readable. The likelihood that you'll care about your DVD?Rs at that point is pretty darned low. /frank

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