Posted: 6/18/2005 8:35:57 PM EDT
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Way back during the DVD format wars of the '90's, DVD-RAM showed up as an oddball. DVD-R and DVD+R are by far the most common today. * DVD-R and DVD+R are "generally" compatible with your DVD player hooked up to your TV. To do this, the data on a DVD-R/DVD+R are stored in a single continuous track on the disc. * DVD-RW and DVD+RW can be written to-erased-written to again-erased, etc. * DVD-RAM stores data in multiple tracks on the disc like a hard drive does. Because of this, you can read and write to it similar to the way you would a hard drive. The advantage is you don't need some burning software to gather up what you want to do and make a big process out of it like you would the other types. It just reads and writes data. The disadvantage is that DVD-RAM is only compatible with DVD-RAM drives, a DVD player for a TV won't read those discs. |