DVD-RW Incompatibilities?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 18, 2004 @11:22AM from the hardware-haps dept.

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."

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Re:Note by djupedal · 2004-03-18 13:53 · Score: 0, Troll

'Both' won't be needed. Why support a bag on the side...one will die. We've already discussed which that is.

DVD+R will be shoved back up Intel's ass, from out whence it crawled in the first place.

DVD+R will die like a rotting woodchuck, dead and dismissed, laying under the front porch on a hot Alabama afternoon....and smelling like an old shoe at best. Weep not...