1) Do you currently own a DVD Recorder if so is it DVD-R, DVD+R or another format ?
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Alas, I do not. However, if I did have one, it would certainly be dual format (+/- R/RW).
2) Are you happy with your current DVD Recorder ?
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Well you can't really expect anything from nothing, but if there is anything that I couldn't say I was happy about, it would be nothing. (or n/a)
3) Are you currently considering buying a DVD Recorder ?
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I would like to get either the sony or the pioneer, but it will more likely be optorite/liteon-type solution.
4) Does the information contained in this article change yourthoughts on the buying a DVD Recorder... if so why
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Not really, I knew much of it (at least generally if not as detailed). I had already planned to get a dual format drive (which should eliminate most or all format compatability problems). Media may still be having issues as well, but I find that to be true every time I buy a new CD-R/W. I have to find media that will burn at the rated speed for that drive. Granted, this could be in part to the fact that I'm more likely to have a liteon drive than an expensive drive. My main use would be for backup (I may also use for music/video dvds, but not at production level). Fifteen minutes (particularly since my first DVD+/-R/W will be in my dual proc system) doesn't seem to bad. It sure beats backing up ~.75TB on CD-Rs (okay, I don't back up that much, but that's just because the drives aren't full yet, but you get the picture).
What I do wonder about, though, is what new technologies (if any) will come out with the newer drives. I remember when I got my first cd-r before buffer under-run protection came out. I was not happy at all with my coaster maker. Essentially the drives are similar and go through a similar burning process, right? Are there new drive technologies (besides higher speed and dual layer burning) that anyone knows about, or have they hit the end of the line with what they can do?
That wouldmake a difference in my buying soon (I don't really need one yet, the big drives are in a redundant RAID until I actually generate enough content to need the space, and the other systems really only have OS/programs [data is saved on the RAID system], but it would be nice to have).
If future DVD+/-R/W drives will have something (other than dual layer, which I don't really care about ATM, I will, just not now) that really improves them, I might wait.
Good article. I did pick up some specifics where I only had generalizations, and some great links.
Side note: I have to disagree with Ed about CD 1x and DVD 1x being,
not at all the same thing.
While he is quite right about them representing vastly different data transfer rates (and the numbers are right). However, they do represent the same concept. They represent the data transfer rate needed to play the content that the media was made for in real-time. The data rate that we call 1x was determined by the industry standards for the original content type, the #x classification came when we computer users decided to use the media format and wanted to make it faster. CDs were made for music (which is essentially just an audio track @44.1kHz/16bits and a fairly small data record), and DVDs for movies (which must contain an audio track, a data record, and a video track {for which I do not know the specs: resolution, etc...). It's really that they are not at all equal.
