DVD-R

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A DVD Forum (the industry body that controls the development of DVD formats) approved recordable DVD format. Format allows single-layer data to be stored on each side of the disc -- in other words, one side of the disc can hold upto 4.38 gigabytes of information (NOT 4.7GB what the disc labels claim -- 4.7GB is achieved by tweaking the numbers and using 1,000 in calculations between megabyte and gigabyte, when the correct number to be used should be 1,024). This poses a problem when backing up pressed DVD-Video discs that can hold dual-layer worth of data per side, 8.5GB. Those discs need to be split to two DVD-R discs if all the information has to be preserved from the original disc.

Dual-layer DVD recordables entered the markets in Q2/2004.

DVD-R is technically slightly less advanced than its competitor, DVD+R. But the year 2002's projections of blank media sales show that sales of DVD-R media will exceed 90,000,000 discs during 2002 while sales of DVD+R media will be only 13,000,000.

Both, DVD-R and DVD+R, formats are write-once formats. DVD-R's "sister format" is called DVD-RW which is essentially a re-writable version of DVD-R. DVD+R's sister format is called DVD+RW.

DVD-R discs can be read with virtually any PC DVD-ROM drive and with most of the regular, stand-alone DVD players.

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attened 31 August, 2007 6:15
Please help me to fine a free copy program that will allow me to copy a movie onto a DVD-R. Thanks.
JohnTay 10 December, 2007 22:56
the write speed for -R is 8x or less and the write speed for +R is 16x or less Try this
Burniem 6 August, 2008 12:47
I need the same as Attened! I have been having the CD-R problem also, and frankly am getting annyed with it. I have 150 useless discs if thats the case. Someone shoul info the disc makers, or program suppliers, that if the discs won't burn music and movies to play ANYWHERE, then to stop making that format, or fix the issues.
Burniem 11 August, 2008 19:11
Thanks for your input JohnTay !! Will try it out !
pappa13 16 February, 2009 15:15
Hi folks. New to the Forum so not sure if I'm posting in the right place. I'm sure someone will tell me. One of my roles at work is to archive project documentation to DVD. In many cases this involves the manual sorting of folders into DVD-sized chunks before going ahead and burning them. Is there software that will do this for me by selecting enough data (in this case from a LAN drive) to fit on one disk and then calling for another disk when required? I am presently using an OEM version of Nero 6 and have enquired of Nero to see if they have any such functionality in their version 9. They recommend Blu-ray but this would involve buying new writer/readers etc. Any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. I guess I'm just trying to make my life easier buy hey, don't we all. Pappa13
ranger67 1 March, 2009 11:07
I have a DVD RW disc drive, can a regular DVD R work in it? I have a stack of DVD +R and it seems not to work, but it works with cd's and DVD R RW's. I do not want to get a whole new disk drive. Can anybody help me with this?

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