What arewrite-once DVDs good for - besides data storage?

[Eleusis]

@Mr2001

If your computer can read it, the data is there, and a DVD player should also be able to read it. I suspect your DVD player just has trouble reading the less-reflective RW discs… you might even be able to get it to read one just by ejecting and reinserting the disc instead of burning it again, but perhaps you’ve tried that already.

I know next to nothing about this, but my hacked xbox won’t read cdr, it requires cdrw or real cd or dvd/anything.

(I’m referring to music, not hacked games. meh)

[Mangetout]

@Mr2001

If your computer can read it, the data is there, and a DVD player should also be able to read it. I suspect your DVD player just has trouble reading the less-reflective RW discs… you might even be able to get it to read one just by ejecting and reinserting the disc instead of burning it again, but perhaps you’ve tried that already.

It may be that the RW discs are on the borderline of my player’s acceptability regarding their reflectiveness, but no, if the burn to RW media doesn’t work in my player, no amount of jiggery-pokery will make it work (except burning the same data to the same disc all over again). It must be some kind of tolerance issue, but the difference must be happening in the writing process.

In any case, the other reasons I don’t use RW media are the low price of write-once discs and the time-consuming inconvenience of wiping a RW disc in order to make it usable again.

[Ms2001]

@Mangetout

In any case, the other reasons I don’t use RW media are the low price of write-once discs and the time-consuming inconvenience of wiping a RW disc in order to make it usable again.

Actually, the latter is just a problem with DVD-RW (that is, DVD minus/dash RW). With DVD+RW, there’s no lengthy erasing process; you can just burn on top of a full disc and the drive will format as it goes along, finishing just as quickly as if the disc had been empty.

[Mangetout]

I didn’t know that; I think I bought some of both kinds, but gave up after trying with the -RW media…

[Eleusis]

@Mr2001

Actually, the latter is just a problem with DVD-RW (that is, DVD minus/dash RW). With DVD+RW, there’s no lengthy erasing process; you can just burn on top of a full disc and the drive will format as it goes along, finishing just as quickly as if the disc had been empty.

It’s still a hassle with all rewritable CDs though.