Better than DVD+RW, a combo DVD-R and DVD-RAM burner for $239

dimwit

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Here.

DVD-R is better for video streaming than DVD+R since DVD-R uses CLV and DVD+R uses CAV. DVD-RAM is better than DVD+RW for data since DVD-RAM can be written 100,000 and has built in error detection. DVD+RW can only be written 1,000 times and first gen DVD+RW drives do not have error detection.

And DVD-RAM is not obsolete, the new DVD Forum standard (DVD-Multi) supports burning DVD-RAM and DVD-RW, along with CD-R/W. This Panasonic drive is not DVD-Multi.
 

SCTrojan

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Get the Pioneer A04/104 instead (posted a bit earlier at compgeeks). Sure DVD-R is better in some ways that DVD+R, but the pioneer does that as well, but at 2X instead of 1X for this drive. No matter what anyone says DVD-RAM is buried about as deep as disco, DVD-RW is better and will only face competition from DVD+RW. Go to www.doom9.org, all the knowledgable people in their forums support the A04/104.
 

Loqutious

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In before the heated battle over DVD writer formats! When I was a kid they had this thing called a Beta VCR...
 

EXman

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In before the heated battle over DVD writer formats! When I was a kid they had this thing called a Beta VCR...

My parents still use their sony Beta Machine :D

I'm gonna wait till the price gets to $150 ish
 

erickotz

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And the Beta machine came out with all the new features first (HiFi Audio? Hi-band format, etc) and did them better yet VHS won. The ONLY thing better about VHS was it's longer recording time......
That said, I'm gonna say DVD-RAM is useless. I picked up a new DVD-RAM drive about a year ago for $70 (was a one-shot deal) bought one disk, used it once, sat there for like 6 months, finally tossed it on ebay. Got $125 for it. That drive was SLOW, VERY SLOW (maybe like equivellent to 4x CD?) and also, disks were INSANELY expensive, a 5.2 GB DVD-RAM disk was like $12. That combined with the fact that pretty much the only thing that could read a DVD-RAM disk was a DVD-RAM drive, made it useless to me (my drive did NOT burn DVD-R, just RAM)
Personally, I'll be ordering the A04 from CompuGeeks just as soon as I get an AmEx card with BVG :)