DVD/R AND DVD/RW's

[rmeyer001]

Will our factory DVD players play DVD/R and/or DVD/RW discs? Thanks!

[RDSII]

the real ? is will it play -R/RW or +R/RW. The newer home units will not have an issue with the -R/RW but the +R/RW you may run into issues. Try to have some one burn you one and see if it works.

[A Rusch]

I'll show some ignorance here........ don't know the diff between - and + CDRWs, but I have burned some with windows media player and played them without a problem. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/phoney.gif[/img]

[rmeyer001]

I have much ignorance, but I will try to explain. A DVD/R which is now a DVD-R/RW is a write only DVD disc, and A DVD+R/RW is a read/write. Both are 4.7Gigs (storage space). There are programs out now that let you copy/ backup your copyrighted DVDs onto either 2 CDs or an exact copy on a blank DVD. BUT some DVD players will not play DVD discs that were originally blank (Technically that is not a good description but the point comes across). I did not want to invest in this software if my DVD player did not play these such discs, but by the info that yours plays CD-Rs makes me feel confident that mine will be ok. Thanks [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/warmsmile.gif[/img]

[RDSII]

Sorry did not want to create so much confusion! For DVD recording there are different de-facto standards. The industry has not agreed on a common format. This leaves the consumer to make choices. The 2 choices for the type of use you guys are looking for is ether DVD-RW and DVD +RW. Now the DVD recorder “physical device” will support one of the 2 standards and the media is not interchangeable in that device. What this means you can buy DVD-R that supports the – format and can only be written once or DVD-RW that can be written to many times. The same holds true for the + format. From a technology stand point there are totally different. But your requirements are to do this for viewing the data in a home system. The standard that works best for that is the DVD-RW. There are only a few companies that manufacture the DVD-RW standard and Pioneer is the big player. Some of the new DVD+RW claim supporting the – but I have read issues of this not working in real life. If you do a search on goggles for DVD-RW or DVD+RW you will get endless info. If you need more detail drop me an email.
FYI you cannot directly copy DVD movies to a blank DVD like you can for a CD. There are work around but will not go to further detail on this form.

Don

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[A Rusch]

I'll eliminate half of my confusion by admitting that I need to read closer......... DVD is different than CD [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] If I could read above a third grade level, I would have kept my mouth shut.......... still helps to have some 'schooling' on the DVDs though - didn't know the diff there either. I'll shut up and learn something now [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[rxbike]

Hope I'm not being totally stupid but presently on my DVD r/rw drive, I have a sony and it supports all + nd - formats for DVD-R and DVD-rw, they have inherent problems within themselves. The available blank media and the software that I use does not allow full copying of a DVD with all the features ie. trailers or interactive menus and so forth. This creates a problem in my home DVD unit which claims to read and play all since it requires some navigating on the unit to find the proper avi files to play. I suspect that the technology of playing DVD-R disc in the stock ford DVD unit is NOT there. At present, the home unit capable of viewing these disc are much more expensive than the typicall unit with all the fancy bells and whistle that are not compatible, so I highly doubt that the unit that ford supplies ( I believe is a audiovox at birth) will even touch the DVD-R disc. Now incorporating CD-R compatibility is not a big deal in technoloy these days since it is readily available and cheap. ie. an am/fm-cd car stereo with CD-R, cd-rw, mp3 and wav players can be had for less than 200.00 kinda says it all
Good luck with your quest for a player that is multi-format capable
Dan [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[clifsmith]

The ford factory DVD player will NOT play DVD-R nor DVD-RW. I have tested this and returned the factory player I purchased. Alot of the newer home DVD players will play DVD-R. I opted for a portable DVD player, Toshiba sd-p2000, which does play DVD-R.