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DVD+R or -R?

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Slickone

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Just got a Pacific Digital (BenQ) 16x DVD burner, and need some media. Aren't +R's better than -R's? I assume there are single and dual layer also.
Anyone know any good deals on them, either online or B&M (no Fry's). How about ebay?
 
+R for overall performance, -R for compatibility. Good to have some of each on hand so you can burn for the target of the disk.

.bh.
 
Get DVD+R. BenQ (DW1620) supports bitsetting, so you can change the booktype to DVD-ROM, which is more compatible than -R. Get your media from Rima.com. Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Get DVD+R. BenQ (DW1620) supports bitsetting, so you can change the booktype to DVD-ROM, which is more compatible than -R. Get your media from Rima.com. Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim.
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The only Taiyo Yuden's I see at Rima are 4.7GB. ?
 
Originally posted by: Slickone
Originally posted by: Baked
Get DVD+R. BenQ (DW1620) supports bitsetting, so you can change the booktype to DVD-ROM, which is more compatible than -R. Get your media from Rima.com. Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim.
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The only Taiyo Yuden's I see at Rima are 4.7GB. ?
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Unless you have a money tree, don't waste your time with Dual layer right now..Just buy the 50 pack of Taiyo DVD+R's, I bought a spindle of them a couple weeks ago.. all I have to say is :thumbsup:
 
One possibly minor issue - laptop drives. I remember reading somewhere that not a lot of laptop drives read DVD+R/RW. I've got a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive in my laptop (the drive's a Toshiba, don't remember the model though) and it can't see +R/RW discs.

 
Originally posted by: Slickone
And I guess I should settle for 8X as well?
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Just one more note--the 50 pack of TY DVD+R's show up as 12X in my burner (Optorite DD1205), might be the same for yours.
 
i have been using fuji 8x-r for a while with pretty good luck, but if i could change the bitsetting on my samsung i would use taiyo yuden +r.
 
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