VCR tape to DVD

[Net Llama!]

ok, that's a bit different than saying that there are various standards 
for DVDs.  this is dvd recording standards.

On 03/13/03 14:52, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW  I believe.
> 
> I don't see a problem with using them as a backup medium where the same device
> will be used to write and read them.  It's when you want interoperability. 
> I'm pretty sure my DVD player at home will not read DVD+anything.
> 
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:00:41 +0100
> Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer at surbrunn.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Aren't there two competing standards for recordable CDs? Some units
>> support both. There is no clear 'winner' at this time. What are these
>> standards, you ask, as you well may? My info ends at this point. We were
>> looking into DVDs as a backup medium and decided against them. Not just
>> because if the 'wide choice of standards', but because they are really not
>> more convenient than, say, removable disks, or firewire disks. But that is
>> another issue.

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