what is the difference from dvd -r +r and RW?
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Well the RW means you can rewrite over and over.\nThe +R and -R means it can only be written to once.\nI'm not 100% sure but I think -R means the dvd needs to be finalized for other dvd players to be able to read it. If anyone knows for sure please correct me.
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diff is that dvd-r and dvd+r are formats.. and it's a battle between the two. whoever wins.. right now dvd-r is winning.
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Main Advantage- Size! \nThe *typical* DVD can hold 4.7gigs of data, where a *typical* CD holds 700megs of data. With the newer DVD Writers (and re-Writers) They have introduced a "Dual Layer" DVD that holds 8.5gigs of data, or 12 CDs worth of data, but they require a Dual Layer compatible reader to work with them, where a standard (older) DVD drive would mainly take CDs or DVDs, but not Dual Layer DVDs.\nBoth DVDs and CDs are available in right once or re-writable, but with older DVD writers, they used one format to read and write where two were available- so there are DVD-R or -RW and DVD+R or +RW. Newer burners will deal with both, as will newer readers. \nCost used to be an issue, but recently, its been cheaper to buy DVDs on sale (right once) than but CDs (right once).
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Virtually all modern DVD Burners have a stylized 'RW' logo on the drive bay door, with the words "DVD+Rreadwriteable" underneith in small print.  I have included a link to the picture you will be looking for: http://lacie.de/imgstore/product_container/dvd+rw_logo.jpg
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Another possibility is the quality of the DVD+rw .  I have experience many times certain DVD working fine in one player but not in another due to disk manufacturer.
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CD's dont have the plus and minus conventions, only DVDs do.  This is because, there are two competing groups that manufacture DVDs, the "plus" forum headed by HP, Dell, etc. that manufacture DVD+RW, DVD+R, etc. and the DVD Forum headed by Pioneer which manufacture DVD-RW, DVD-R, etc.\n\nHence, CD-R and CD-RW are valide conventions, CD+R and CD+RW are not.
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you don't.. your DVD writing software takes care of that, and in most cases will insist that it is blank\nDVD/RW's will be erased prior to writing by the DVD burning software
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CD-r burns on the bottom of the disk, where a CD+R burns on the top.  There is really no difference in terms of use.
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The most common DVD player programs included are PowerDVD and WinDVD, so look around to see if either they came installed, or as one of the included software disks. Check to see if your drive has a DVD logo.
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They are both the same, along with CD+R/W  it just means that one u can use over and over again and the other you can right to just once.  both hold 700MB. Your program u use to burn your data, there is always setting to "Overburn" but it can damage the disc or the drive.
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CD-RW writes only CDRoms with max capapcity of 700mb, while DVD-RW writes DVD disks up to 4.7gb and up to 8bg on Double-Layered DVD disks. \n\n4.7gb DVD blanks are more common. Commercial studios publish their movies to 8gb DVD disks.  They usually have more than sufficient space to throw in extras like interviews, making of the movies and so on.\n\nWhen you want to legally backup your copy of DVD movies you have to shrink the movies from 8gb down to 4.7gb to fit. VCD and SVCD format of up to 1150bps may be burned to multiple CDRoms, while DVD have a higher cinematic quality of anything from 5000bps to 9000bps and need only 1 disk to contain a whole movie.\n\nBurning Movies to DVD quality is the only way to go these days.\n\nNow the latest technology is Blu-Ray disc with capacity of up to 20gb. Wouldn't be available for a while though.
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Click "Start". Right click on "My Computer". Select "Manage". On the left window-pane, select "Device Manager". On the right window-pane, select "DVD/CD-ROM drives". Look to see if any entries under that subsection have "DVD RW" in the name.
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I use +R media. I have found it more reliable than the -R media. The cost of the RW disks is higher so unless you want to record over disks use the DVD+R.\n\nWith Nero you have many options. To copy the disk you would need to use the 'Copy Entire Disk' option, but be warned, many commercial DVDs have copyright protection and Nero will refuse to copy. \n\nA more reliable prgram is Clone DVD, it is slow, but it ignores copyright!! It can also compress DVDs so that they fit on one disk.\n\nFull length DVDs show as nearly 9Gb, which is twice the size of a standard DVD disk and therefore will not copy using Nero.
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If you have a DVD+/-R drive, you can read the disk off a +R disk and copy it to a -R disk.  Check in your DVD burner software for a "disk Copy" utility.
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the way the info is put onto the disk is the simplest way to describe it  ... -r is the most compatible with settop players followed by +r and then the rws'.
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CD-R is a blank, recordable cd that holds up to 700mb. It is NOT rewritable\n\nCD-RW is the same as a CD-R, but it can be rewritten.\n\nDVD-R is a format of DVD, sometimes more compatible with older DVD players.  It holds 4.7gb (~4700mb).  There is also a rewritable version of this named DVD-RW\n\n\nDVD+R is another format of DVD, it can also hold 4.7gb.  There are rewritable versions of this that are DVD+RW.\n\nDVD-DL is another DVD format in which there are two layers.  This doubles the capacity of the DVD so it can hold 8.5 gb (~8500mb).  These are newer and more expensive in the consumer market; however, almost all of the DVD movies you have in your home are printed on DVD-DL.\n\nI hope I helped!
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DVD -R is the most compatible format for playing in a traditional DVD player. The hard part is going to be taking your individual pictures and put them in a slideshow type format so they can be displayed as a 'movie'.\n\nI think that windows moviemaker has this kind of feature built into it.\n\nUPDATE: Google's application called Picasa has this feature. Link below.