[MacDV] Re: Why I love my mac

[James Asherman]

On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 01:37  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> On 1/19/04 12:31 PM, Ronald Woodland at woodland at infowest.com wrote:
>
>> Specifically, what value is DVD+R over the DVD-R
>> format for single-sided DVDs.
>
> The DVD+R format allows multiple sessions on the same disc, so you 
> could
> write 4 1 GB sessions until the disc is full.  DVD-R discs are 
> "closed" or
> "finalized" after you burn to them just once, no matter how much (or 
> how
> little) data you put on it -- seems silly to me, why the heck would 
> the DVD
> standards group make it that way?  I dunno.
>
> - Mark
>

Thank you. I have both and use both and still never quite saw that, 
that was the distinction, and explains why standalone recorders for 
consumers are largely , but not all, +R.