DVD Burners

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Jan 16 15:22:00 EST 2006


On Jan 16, 2006, at 13:54, Travis Roy wrote:

> If you get a drive, make sure it supports "booktyping"
>
> Basically it burns a DVD+RW disk as booktype "DVD-ROM" This lets you 
> play a video DVD in any commercial DVD drive, since it acts like a 
> "normal" DVD.

In case anyone else doesn't know what a booktype is:

   http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/150

No wonder the DVDForum is so pissy about DVD+R!

Good info, Travis!

P.S. I got a $60 Philips DVD player from Best Buy and it plays almost 
anything, including MPEG-4.

-Bill

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