On 07/29/15 03:34, g wrote: <<>> >>> when buying a new burner, remember you want dvd-r to match dvd-r blanks >> >> What does it mean? > > thru out my years of playing with computers, i have read many articles on > what lead up to the current day optical disk and drives from their first > concept during early 70's when i built my first computer, an s100 system. > > there has been little change from original, but a whole lot of improvement. > > instead of trying to explain, i believe it would be easier to understand if > you rely on the informative from wikipedia.org as it is too much to try to > condense in a post. > > the drive; > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_drive > > the disk; > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc > > types of disk; > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Optical_storage_media > > use last link to locate info for the various disk types. i woke up a couple hours ago and thought i would do some searching for dvd-r and dvd+r, both drives and disks. nothing new, dvd+r still has a different/better format than dvd-r. :-) also did some searching on drives to find that with today's newer drives, there is a greater availability of drives with combinations of r/w, -r/+r, as well as 'dual layer', blu-ray and hd. so, if you go with a new drive, note what type it is and that you can still use disks that you have. as for disk media, it seems that better quality disks are still from japan. -- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
