well, not really. i bought a new slot loading dvd-rom today (i had a 4 year old one that i was waiting to sell, and i just sold it this morning), but i was really worried that it wouldn't play the dvd+rw format. so i searched online to find a compatibility list, and i found one that said the model (pioneer 106s) was supported. so i bought it, installed it, and then tried out some discs. they all worked, except for a dvd+r my sister recorded a couple weeks ago on my philips standalone dvd recorder, which crashed my computer. i was shocked! so i checked more compatibility lists, and found that my shiney new drive wasn't listed. frustrated, i tried searching all the other dvd+r compatible drives to see if a slot loading one had gone unnoticed. sadly, the only one that did was the pioneer scsi model, which cost about twice as much as mine, not counting the scsi card. i then tried playing the dvd+r in one of the other computers here that had a dvd+r compatible drive. it, too, caused the machine to crash. this was making me mad.
but i thought about it for a moment, and wondered why the disc would cause both computers to crash... i then put the disc back in the original philips, to confirm that the disc worked at all.
it worked fine.
this is odd, i thought. a second later, it dawned on me... why would a disc work in the philips machine but not in any others? because it hadn't been finalized! excited, i finalized the disc in the philips, and ran to the computer with the compatible dvd-rom. it worked! now, for the moment of truth... i brought it to my pioneer 106s slot loading 16x dvd-rom, which was louder than i'd like but would be willing to put up with it only if it supported this format... and it worked. tears of joy streamed down my face. the dvd-rom stays.
next week, dolph gets a new cdrw and writes a story about that one, too!
but i thought about it for a moment, and wondered why the disc would cause both computers to crash... i then put the disc back in the original philips, to confirm that the disc worked at all.
it worked fine.
this is odd, i thought. a second later, it dawned on me... why would a disc work in the philips machine but not in any others? because it hadn't been finalized! excited, i finalized the disc in the philips, and ran to the computer with the compatible dvd-rom. it worked! now, for the moment of truth... i brought it to my pioneer 106s slot loading 16x dvd-rom, which was louder than i'd like but would be willing to put up with it only if it supported this format... and it worked. tears of joy streamed down my face. the dvd-rom stays.
next week, dolph gets a new cdrw and writes a story about that one, too!
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