Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:01:14 -0600 From: Dustin Decker <dustind@moon-lite.com> Subject: RE: DVD writing? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302100958260.466-100000@gemini.moon-lite.com>
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Brian Densmore wrote:
> I would be very skeptical of being able to write a DVD disc in a CDRW
> drive. I doubt the CDRW has the laser motion/tracking to write at that
> density. Hence the reason DVD writeable drives cost $$$. If it sounds
> too good to be true it usually is. Try reading a DVD in your CDRW. If
> you can read it you can possible write it. If you can't read it how can
> you read it back to verify you wrote it?
IIRC, the DVD standard makes use of multiple layers of opaque encoding as
well, at various angles that the CD-RW simply might not be able to achieve
at their low manufacture price. Hard to say - while there are certainly a
number of drives out there that can read both media (such as in new
laptops and such) I don't expect the burners for DVD to come down "real
soon" in price.
As for cross compatibility, I think it would be a myth. If nothing else,
it's being mis-marketed if it _does_ exist. A CD-RW that can burn DVD's
would be better marketed as a "DVD-R that can also burn CD-RW" if you ask
me.
/me tosses two bits on the table and takes a swig.
D.
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