DVD-RW Incompatibilities?

rekkanoryo writes "It seems that there is some trouble brewing in the DVD-RW camps. According to CNET, new, faster 4x DVD-RW media may not be compatible with older DVD-RW drives. The DVD+RW camp is confident this won't be a problem for them, but the -RW backers think it will sometime in the future when even faster media starts to appear. Also mentioned is a dual-layer DVD+R capable of holding up to 8.5 GB of data per disc and the problem with really old DVD+RW drives not being upgradable to support write-once DVD+R media."

Comments

well, if you bought a dvd-rw drive...

[Yenhsrav_Keviv]

dont you think they would have made sure this is backwards compatible? i mean come on, how many customers are they gonna piss off with this. i bet this is their corporate motto: " sux 4 u! "

*GASP*

[ackthpt]

My valuable pr0n collection! Now I have to start all over again!

Re:*GASP*

[Anonymous Coward]

A large part of enjoying any collection is not just having the collection but building it.
So enjoy!

Re:Rushed to market?

[jazman_777]

Whatever happened to the standard bodies who are supposed to prevent this?

They're out on the "Let's use Esperanto!" World Tour.

Re:Standards? Anyone?

[Bombcar]

The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! :)

Re:Standards? Anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

priceless, if you managed to tape something that will never be broadcast again, or if you had a Beta/VHS handycam)

R-Kelley w/ a handycam and an underage hooker? Priceless.

Use this for your DVD player.

[Anonymous Coward]

I wrote this perl script for installing DVD burners. You will have to tweak it slightly for your distro, but it should be obvious what you need to do.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my($3,0,0,1,1,1,0,0)=(cdrecord,growiofs,m kiofs,);unshift@s,$_ ,$_ for 1..$e-1;unshift'',$_ for split$/,`cat $f`;$x=\$_for sort{$a<=>$b}keys%w;for$n(
reverse 3..$x){for$b(@{$w{$n}})wget`$-`;{$s=$n-1;$m{$n}=$b ;H:for$y(@{$w{$s}}){if($y=~/[$b
]{$s}/){$t=$y;$t= ~s/$_/X/ for split'',$b;if($t=~/X{$s}/){$m{$s}=$y;if($s==3){for
(sort{$a<=>$b}keys%m){next if$_>$n;print:$e<10?$v<10?0:'':'').$v+t@s,$e;
@p= (1,0);for(@s){push@m,$d=shift@m;push@p,$a=shift@p; $d?$a?++$x:++$y:$a?--$x:--$
y,$l[$y][$x]=($e=>10? $v<10?'00':$v<10

Re:Standards? Anyone?

[funny-jack]

Why not just let the market decide what the 'standard' is?

Yes, anyone can clearly see, that plan has worked excellently for cell phones.

Sorry

[alcmena]

Sorry everyone, my bad. I bought the DVD-RAM drive a few years ago, and shortly later, that format died. A month ago, I bought a DVD-RW drive, and ummm... Well, I guess I kind of cursed it too.

Re:Sorry

[Anonymous Coward]

Will you *please* buy a copy of every Microsoft product?

Re:Standards? Anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry. pr0n will again solve this new issue as usual.

The "War of the Speeds"

[dpbsmith]

Columbia introduced the 33-1/3 RPM LP in 1948. RCA deliberately introduced the incompatible 45. During the "war of the speeds," both companies saw sales fall sharply. RCA's fell more and in 1950 they capitulated. By that time, the damage was done and users of turntables were saddled for five decades with the extra costs of multi-speed turntables and a variety of clumsy, awkward, expensive spindle adapters.

Just wait, any day now some DVD "standards" group is going to suggest changing the size of the hole. They've dicked around with almost everything else, it's about all that's left.

Newer formats

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one am waiting for the new DVDxRW and DVD/RW.

Re:Standards? Anyone?

[stelmack]

You know what I like about standards -- there are so many to choose from.