spacegrass used our news submit to tell us about an article at PCmag.com that should be of interest to our readers. He says it is a pretty good and straightforward piece that could come in handy if you are in the market for a new DVD burner. Especially if you are not up to date already with what has been posted here and at the forums .
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The rewritable DVD'”and the different recipes for baking one'”has been troubled from the start by battles among powerful corporations, culminating in a schism that has split the industry. Consumers are now faced with five recording technologies: the DVD Forum's DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM (the "dash" formats), and the DVD+RW Alliance's DVD+R and DVD+ RW (the "plus" formats) Thankfully, the worst may be over. With rewritable DVD now moving into consumer electronics'”such as the Elite DVR-57H and Pioneer DVR-810H personal video recorders'”manufacturers are intent on avoiding the confusion that slowed adoption in the computer industry. Rest assured, however, that almost any new DVD player you buy will read both "plus" and "dash" discs. And most hardware manufacturers have announced recorders that support both "plus" and "dash" media (both our Editors' Choice winners are dual-format drives). For this story, we ran a battery of performance tests on 23 of the latest DVD burners. We tested each drive's ripping and burning speeds with every type of supported media, and we measured relative performance when writing to write-once DVD and CD media. |
Whew! That's a lot of drives. The article goes over the history of formats as well and we can't forget copy protection so they wrote about that. I don't think they missed a single acronym. There's even a review of DVD Authoring software, in case you"re not satisfied with what comes bundled with your drive. We are curious if any CD Freaks members have any different experiences or opinions contrary to what is stated in the reviews that they would like to share. Great article spacegrass, thanks for alerting us to it!
Source: pcmag.com
