DVD Burners

DVD Burners are like CD burners, but has three different medias to burn, DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. DVD-R/RWs work like to CD-R/RWs, and also to be the cheaper format. Made it by Pioneer it's the official format of the DVD Forum, a group that devises the standards for the overall DVD format. Discs burner in DVD-R/-RW will playback in your DVD Player.

The DVD+R/RW, from DVD Alliance (Sony, Yamaha and Hewlett Packard) it’s the most standard media format. It's technically the superior format, because it re-writes more efficiently than its DVD-RW counterpart. However, because it came out of the traps last, it's not the most widely used. That happened before with Betamax and VHS, Betamax was a better format, but it was VHS that people adopted.

DVD-RAM is the easiest one to rule out, unless you're looking to do large scale data backup only. It's not really of much appeal to the consumer, because of lack of compatibility with home DVD players, and has found a happier home in a corporate environment. Panasonic is the biggest name championing this format.

The DVD burners are the last generation of optical storage device. They can save over 6 times the data of a CD, you can also create DVD movies that can played in most DVD Players. A DVD writer or burner has a write speed of 2x (up to 16x). A DVD burner writing at 1x can burn nearly 1.4MB in a second, whereas a CD burner at 1x manages under 0.2MB in the same time frame. Incidentally, DVD burners can also burn CDs, but tend not to be able to manage the speeds that a dedicated CD burner could rack up.

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