DVD-R with DVD+R

DVD Formats

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Original post by spacemonkeystudios Hi, I own a DVD recorder which says DVD+R but not DVD-R. However, I've been told that DVD+R is backward compatable with '-'. Is this true? (It's a TV recorder rather than a PC one....it's LG) Cheers

Odds are it can read DVD-R, but you can ONLY write to +R type discs, maybe RAM and RW as well.

I've got a DVD+RW drive myself and when I entered a DVD-R to try and record to it wouldn't reconise the disc and kept asking me to insert one instead.

You can buy recorders which can write to both multiple formats but AFAICT if your drive only says DVD+R then that's all you can use. Bit of a pain really when you consider the price difference in some stores between the two formats.