Why DVD-R Still Reigns

Here is a roundup from Tom's Hardware depicting the compatability of 11 different DVD burners with some popular set-top DVD players. Seeing as DVD burners yet remain as serving the primary function of burning video discs, this compatability test is extremely important.

As you can see, squared off in red are the DVD-R tests, noting only one failure between all the drives and DVD players. However switching to the DVD+R platform we see that the +R standard fails a whopping 33 times in the tests.

DVD+R may be getting faster, but what good is it when it's often prone to failure?

Also curious to note that in the end, the Pioneer DVR-A06 and the LG GSA-4040B were the top choices. This bodes well with my consistent recommendations to purchase Pioneer's exceptional drives. Also a surprise to see LG make the top of the list, and the external (And physically identical) brother of the Sony DRU-510 get completely excluded from any laurels whatsoever.

Go Pioneer, go -R.