[MacDV] Did anyone else see this?

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I saw this but it really means very little to Apple users since you 
would need the software to take advantage of the DVD+RW format and 
Apple seems to be supporting the -R format.  It will give PC users 
greater flexibility because when they buy a drive they are not marrying 
to one format.  A couple of months ago Sony had already come out with a 
drive that could use both formats.
Unless authoring programs for +RW are available to Apple users the 
drives new abilities will be lost to us and in reality the 
compatibility for video DVDs with current set top players is about 
equal for either format.  There may be advantages in particular 
circumstances (if your current set top player plays +RW better than _R) 
for one format over the other but over all it makes little difference.

Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 08:41  PM, ShirleyK wrote:

>
> The company's sixth-generation rewritable DVD drive, the DVR-AO6 makes
> its debut this week with support for both the "dash" and "plus" DVD
> formats. That is, it will handle the DVD Forum standard format DVD-R 
> and
> DVD-RW discs, as well as +R and +RW discs.
>