Rewritable DVDs, old drives don't always play nice

zerodamage · Mar 17, 2004, 11:19 PM

"Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some consumers, new DVD-RW discs that record up to four times (4X) the normal playback speed do not support recording on drives with a top speed of 1X or twice that speed (2X). Rewritable discs allow people to record material and then record over that old information with new data. "

Full Article: CNET

Mar 17, 2004, 11:19 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Rewritable DVDs, old drives don't always play nice "Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some consumers, new DVD-RW discs that record up to four times (4X) the normal playback speed do not support recording on drives with a top speed of 1X or twice that speed (2X). Rewritable discs allow people to record material and then record over that old information with new data. " Full Article: CNET