Also, on the – vs + topic, it was interesting to see the former dominate the top of the table. There are so many reasons this may be the case in a test of limited scope like this. For example, the ‘minus’ media might just work a bit better with this Lite-On drive hardware/firmware than ‘plus’ media. Or the triumphant ‘minus’ rewritables had some benefits with respect to degradation of the phase layer material.
As for current stocks of DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs, only Verbatim, Maxell, Ridata, and SmartBuy-branded rewritable media are available at Amazon .
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wussupi83 There's something fun about imagining a world where disc technology stuck around a little longer. I don't think I ever rewrote a CD or DVD more than a few times before disc spindles became fairly inexpensive. It never crossed my mind how many rewrites a disk could handle. This was a fun thought. Reply
usertests wussupi83 said: There's something fun about imagining a world where disc technology stuck around a little longer. I don't think I ever rewrote a CD or DVD more than a few times before disc spindles became fairly inexpensive. It never crossed my mind how many rewrites a disk could handle. This was a fun thought. In the late 2000s, 1 TB optical discs were developed in the lab, and I remember the hype around 6 TB "Holographic Versatile Discs". The now-discontinued Archival Disc was introduced in 2015 with 300/500 GB capacities (I don't think 1 TB was ever made). There was some interest in pushing towards an 8K UHD consumer disc that could have used any of these >128 GB (BDXL) capacities, but streaming, industry greed, and admittedly low adoption of 8K have terminated that future. Now we live in a horrible world far removed from the nostalgic times of a CD storing more than your HDD. Reply
magnetite I'm surprised that there isn't a use for M-Discs for archiving media and content. Streaming might have taken over physical media for viewing media, but there's still a need for reliable archival media formats to preserve historical digital information. Reply
Notton If you are ever wondering why DVD RW discs were never popular… 1x write speed = 1hr Reply
USAFRet magnetite said: I'm surprised that there isn't a use for M-Discs for archiving media and content. Streaming might have taken over physical media for viewing media, but there's still a need for reliable archival media formats to preserve historical digital information. If people thought there is a viable use, they would use them. Do you ? I sure don't. Reply
teckel12 You're not alone, no one uses them. Reply
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