jsl wrote:NEC and Lite-On are not officially in any camp but they want to recieve orders from Dell and HP and they want plus only drives in their PCs. Even Toshiba has produced plus only drives for HP...
I said I *THINK*... but the DVD+R/RW drives always come out first, so my assumption isn't unwarranted.
jsl wrote:dolphinius_rex wrote:DVD+R is harder to make
I don't think so. If anything it is (was) the other way around:
The production of masters for the DVD-formats is somewhat more complicated due to the requirement for the pre-pits that are located on the land areas between the grooves. For these formats the groove has a fixed wobble frequency without modulation and the addressing and timing control is provided by the pre-pits.
The production of masters for the CD and DVD+ formats is relatively straightforward with only a single, wobbled laser beam being required to produce the groove.
Although traditional master recorders used for these formats are dual beam recorders, only one beam is actually switched on during the recording.
The more complicated DVD- formats, with pre-pits have, up to now, also been produced using a highly complex dual beam recorder. In this type of recorder, one beam is used to write the groove while the second beam produces the pre-pits. As optical discs are specified in terms of the readout signals obtained and not by the geometrical structures, the use of a dual beam recorder is only a method and is not a pre-requisite.
Source: Singulus
There now exists single beam method for DVD-R too but every DVD-R still needs to be pre-recorded with CSS copy protection though.
I also very much doubt your 10x more sold/made DVD-R numbers. In fact if I remember correct it was a study not that long ago showing DVD+R selling more in retail stores like Bestbuy.
Hey, I'm only quoting what I've been told by the manufacturing plants themselves, don't get mad at me if they tell me wrong. I'd *THINK* that they'd know what they're talking about, but hey, who knows?
As for sales figures... I'm 100% sure of what I said, but I'm sure results will vary from location to location. Of course Ritek and Optodisc are in the U.S. but all the suppliers/distributors in Canada that I've spoken to (and keep in mind, it's my job to talk to these people
) pretty much agree that DVD-R is massively outselling DVD+R. Mind you, DVD+R has picked up from nothing, to small amounts. I'm expecting 8x will make the big difference for DVD+R (or rather 8x recorded at 12x and 16x!).[/quote]