prog | Creative annoyance OTD

If the rumors I'm reading on the internets are true, DVD-R discs and DVD+R discs are not the same thing. I had no reason before now to think that the choice of punctuation mark on a blank disc's label was the result of anything other than the typographical preference of whichever company created it, but nope.

I have been making MST3K archive discs by simply dragging the big AVI files onto them in the Finder -- about six will fit -- and burning. It works fine, but the resulting data discs require a computer with DVD-reading hardware and AVI-playing software in order to replay the movies. When

rserocki reminded me that I do in fact have Apple's iDVD at my disposal, I became engrossed in making some good-looking, TV-playable discs... only to discover that the application didn't want to recognize the DVD+R discs I have. iDVD apparently only wants DVD-Rs, while the Finder seems to be happy with either + or -.

OTOH, it's interesting to learn how cheap the media have become in such a such a brief time. I got this stack of discs at Micro Center the other day for something like 50 cents apiece; the 2002-stamped messages I was just reading suggested that they were a bargain at six bucks each.

Creative annoyance OTD

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