DVD-R or DVD+R?

[J. J. COOK]

I HAVE A 'SONY VAIO' RUNNING WIN-XP. I DON'T KNOW WHICH
BLANK DISCS TO BUY FOR RECORDING. SONY AIN'T EXACTLY NO
GOLD MINE OF HELP OR INFORMATION. THANX.

[Chris Lanier]

Goto Sony's site select your computer and see if it includes a DVD-R or
DVD+R. It should also say in the documention you got with it.

"J. J. COOK" > wrote in message
...
> I HAVE A 'SONY VAIO' RUNNING WIN-XP. I DON'T KNOW WHICH
> BLANK DISCS TO BUY FOR RECORDING. SONY AIN'T EXACTLY NO
> GOLD MINE OF HELP OR INFORMATION. THANX.

[Alex Nichol]

J. J. COOK wrote:

>I HAVE A 'SONY VAIO' RUNNING WIN-XP. I DON'T KNOW WHICH=20
>BLANK DISCS TO BUY FOR RECORDING.=20

Sony are using DVD-R in their Vaios , but may still be single speed


--=20
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[Eddie]

Alex Nichol > wrote in message >...
> J. J. COOK wrote:
>
> >I HAVE A 'SONY VAIO' RUNNING WIN-XP. I DON'T KNOW WHICH
> >BLANK DISCS TO BUY FOR RECORDING.
>
> Sony are using DVD-R in their Vaios , but may still be single speed

It depends on what DVD drive your VAIO has.

See http://www.VAIOvillage.com for more information.

Cheers
Eddie

[Millard]

>-----Original Message-----
>Goto Sony's site select your computer and see if it
includes a DVD-R or
>DVD+R. It should also say in the documention you got
with it.
>
>"J. J. COOK" > wrote in message
...
>> I HAVE A 'SONY VAIO' RUNNING WIN-XP. I DON'T KNOW WHICH
>> BLANK DISCS TO BUY FOR RECORDING. SONY AIN'T EXACTLY NO
>> GOLD MINE OF HELP OR INFORMATION. THANX.
>
>
>.
>Depends on what you are recording. For documents and data
type files the DVD-+R disks are better because you can re-
write them. If you are doing videos, then DVD-R is the
disk to use. This is the standard picked for DVDs in
Hollwood and can be read on most home DVD players for
television. DVD-+R cannot be read by many home players and
are less suitable for video. The WRITE SPEEDS of most DVD-
Rs is 4X (more expensive) use once. The nice thing about
DVD-+R is you can go back and modify your video but, can
anything but the PC read it? Hope this helps.