DVDs and drive incompatibility

[Michael Winter]

I don't think its anything new to the people on this list, but since 
the topic came up in the "making a cross platform dvd" thread, I 
thought people might be interested in the following cnet article at 
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5113654.html?part=dtx&tag=nhl> and the 
study it talks about.

The bottom line seems to be that "tests proved DVDs and DVD drives to 
be compatible only 85 percent of the time."

IOW,

"This means that if a recording is made on 10 different brands of DVDs, 
the odds are that at least one will not work."

-Mike