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by BuckyF on January 8th, 2004

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What's the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?

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  • by roomoleum on October 26th, 2008

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    Nobody cares about the different forums and alliances and all those useless facts about dates and development.

    DVD-R is supposed to be slightly better for movies.

    DVD+R is supposed to be slightly better for data.

    I have been told that these slight advantages have something to do with the way the drive organizes the information on the disc in either format. In simplicity, DVD-R writes in sort of a continuous fashion better for reading video, while DVD+R sort of scatters the information around on the disc in a way that is better for the drive to process data.

    I can't honestly back this up because I don't know if it is correct, but this answer makes the most sense if it is true. Hopefully a computer genius can edit this answer if it is wrong, but maintain the basic idea of my response--to actually define a difference in the two formats for a consumer who is buying single-layered, blank media to use with a DVD burner that will write on either type. I think that's what we want to know!

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