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It took a while, but that's wher we are today - your "cd" will probably read and write everything.

From: Tony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Subject: Re: dvd writer
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 10:00:16 -0500

allan thomson wrote:
 > Hi
 >
 > I want to purchase a dvd re-writer. Does anyone have any experience
 > of this in linux? Can anyone recommend a model? What software would I
 > need to write to a dvd?


I'd wait just a little bit.  The next generation of dvd writers will be
able to  write to DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW - which pretty
well takes care of everything but calligraphy on parchment.

Panasonic recently announced "Rambo II" or "DVDBurner II" with those
features http://www.consumerdvreviews.com/news/1102/11182002_01.asp but
it's a little pricy and I expect it will be coming down in price in a
few months.

As to software, Linux handles DVD now and I expect there won't be any
problems with these new things (or so people who know more than I tell
me).  I've been using DVDRAM for backup for some time now
  (http://aplawrence.com/Reviews/dvdram.html ).

BTW, there is lots of confusion and misinformation out there.  I
regularly get people telling me that DVDRAM is "dead" - they just don't
understand that these different formats have different uses:

   DVD-R is write once.

   DVD-RW can be over-written up to 1,000 times. It is a disk-at-once
   medium, which means you start writing, then write to completion.

   DVD-RAM  can be written over 100,000 times, and is random
   access read and write.

DVD+RW and DVD+R are different:.

   DVD+RW can written up to 1,000 times and can
also be used in a packet writing mode.

   DVD+R is  write once.

All have random access once written (Thanks to Tom Podnar of
http://www.microlite.com  for keeping me up to date on this stuff!)


-- 

Tony Lawrence
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