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And I don't think +R is dead. I offer my customers a choice of either type for the same price. If yo go to the right places there is hardly a difference in the price. Last year I -R was always the main choice of my customers, but in the last 3 months +R is somehow soaring ahead in sales popularity.

So far I have only received 2 complaints about non-playing discs (I do not and will nto guarantee them to play on all players anyway, and if possible I like to take the model number of the customers intended playback machine first to make sure it has a chance of playing what they are buying).
The 2 complaints I received were both against -R discs not playing in particular players.
You have to remember that back in the late 90s Philips shifted a hell of a lot of DVD players and they are all still out there somewhere. These players ONLY play +R and I've heard some early Sony ones do too.

Mr Dibble
Congrats on this reply it's the best piece of TECHNOBABLE ever posted in these forums.
Ever considered writting for STAR TREK?

Wide Screen indeed

Steven
Rivo asked a simply question and got a simple answer regarding DVDR.
He had no interest in N1500 or N1700 just a plain and simple question did his DMR play + or - discs.
You are wrong about betamax but this has nothing to do with REVO's Question so is pointless and a waste of typing

Mr Dribble
Better than the last posting but to answer your question yes. When ordering DVD Recordable discs if asked for DVDR you would be given DVD-R. If the + system was required then you would need to order DVD+R.

BXD

Just found the page on google where you got your technobable from, very funny indeed and better in wide-screen but your web site dont work and your emails get returned!

"Modern TV sets are rubbish though since digital processing was introduced into their circuitry nothing looks good anymore. A broadcast monitor only shows the true potential of the footage."

Yes, I concur. I recently installed a Freeview digi-box for an elderly relation and I was expecting a noticeable improvement in the quality of the digital image - but quite the reverse! The digital Freeview picture seemed to have less resolution than the analogue picture we had been watching a short while earlier. Of course there?s a lot of hype and bollocks talked about digital TV. It's crap at the moment because bandwidth is spread to thinly amongst the channels. Firms like Sky correctly assume that their customers are knobheads and will be much more impressed that they can get 500 channels of reality TV and game shows than 50 channels of pristine, full bandwidth, quality programming. Most of the public haven?t got a clue. They have a vague idea that anything 'digital' is automatically better. But this is not so. Yes, there is vast potential in digital technology, but it is rarely deployed to it's greatest (expensive) potential. Instead the masses are fed cheap watered down versions of digital media - most of 'em have no taste and don't know what day it is, so why spend lots of dough on hi fidelity versions? It would be pearls before swine. This is the currently prevailing view amongst British broadcasters and distributors of digital media.

But things are changing. Next year Sky (now run by James Murdoch) will be the first UK broadcaster to offer a subscriptions service of High Definition programming, complete with Dolby Digital surround (5.1) audio. The BBC will follow in a few years ? they are already shooting new programs in hi-def.


Officer Dibble

Bill, congrats on your rebuttal - ?tis surely the most pathetic one to be self-consciously nudged my why in the entire history of the forum.

You accuse my of 'technobable', yet I made a point of including reputable, independent, references to sources that contradict you, sources that show you to be technically confused and to be generally talking bollocks. I could not help noticing that you included no references at all to substantiate the charge against me of ?talking technobable?. We must therefore assume that you are painfully aware you have been rumbled and to save face you are taking the time honoured (only) route of trying to bluster your way out. That might pay off with lesser opponents, but not with Officer D - ?cause he?s a man of the world and an erudite clever dick to boot. So, you might as well give up while you?re behind. Sorted.


"Ever considered writting for STAR TREK?"

They couldn't afford me.


Officer Dibble

"You are wrong about betamax"

No he's not. He?s spot on. If I could just refer members of the forum to these respected Betamax resource sites -





You will note that it is not Steven who is wrong; on the contrary, it is Bill who is talking bollocks.

Ladies and gentlemen of the forum, to sum up, I have shown Bill to be a bewildered, technically confused, and unreliable witness. A witness who has tried to save face by casting aspersions on the abilities and judgment of his peers. I now put it to you ? Is this a man we can take seriously on this forum? Is this a man of honour, integrity and good judgment? Ladies and gentlemen of the forum, it is up to you to decide. I rest my case.



Officer Dibble ? Director of Porno Prosecutions

"Better than the last posting but to answer your question yes. When ordering DVD Recordable discs if asked for DVDR you would be given DVD-R."

Oh really? How come you?re such an authority on this then? Are you in the business of blank media wholesale and retail, like me? Or does it flow from your experience of buying a pack of 5 down at PC world?



Officer Dibble

Mr DRIBBLE
Didn't mean to offend but yes I am in the industry!

I own an established adult production company called Swordfish Productions and a Blank Perhipal Media company called MEDIA MASTERS. We opperate Media Master through a network of computer fairs and have opperators at all the major Midlands fairs. Media Masters employes 23 people and Swordfish speaks for itself!

I could go on but it would be pointless because you know what you think and Revo has already contacted me and is now happy and sorted.

Good Bye

BXD

Dibble is correct in what he stated.