By Kire Terzievski, RMIT Test Labs
June 18th, 2002.
DVD Formats
| DVD Formats -- Which drive can handle which format? | |||||
| DVD-R | DVD-RW | DVD+R | DVD+RW | DVD-RAM | |
| DVD-ROM Drives | |||||
| Hitachi GD-2000 | R | R | R | R | |
| NEC 5700A | R | R | |||
| Pioneer DVD-114 | R | R | R | ||
| Toshiba notebook SD-C2502 | R | R | |||
| Toshiba notebook SD-C2202 | R | R | |||
| DVD Recorders | |||||
| AOpen RW 5120A | R | R | R | R W | |
| Lacie DVR-104 | R W | R W | R | ||
| Panasonic Movie Studio | R W | R | R W | ||
| Pioneer DVR-A04 | R W | R W | R | ||
| Ricoh MP5125A | R W* | R W* | R W | R W* | |
| -R" signifies drive can read the specified
format, -W" signifies drive can write in that format. *Vendor claims this drive can read DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, however we were unable to do this in Lab tests. |
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15%
7%
