{"id":3045,"date":"2005-01-02T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T22:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/dvd-r-dvdr-argh\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:20:15","slug":"dvd-r-dvdr-argh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/dvd-r-dvdr-argh\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD-R? DVD+R? Argh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5573,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131016010413\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 19:54:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 21:10:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 04:16:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 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I&#8217;d love to know what kind of hardware they were testing that on, because I&#8217;ve got around 7,000 photographs in my iPhoto library and it quite frequently brings my 2.0Ghz G5 to a standstill, if iPhoto doesn&#8217;t crash out entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Annoying.<\/p>\n<p>So, part of last weekend&#8217;s running around was picking up a small spindle of recordable DVDs so that I could back up the older photos and pull them out of my iPhoto library. Prairie and I hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/\" title=\"Best Buy\">Best Buy<\/a> and found a spindle of fifteen recordable DVDs for about ten dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I grabbed all my photos up through 2003 (only about 2.5Gb out of the 4.7Gb available) and told iPhoto to burn the DVD. It asked for a blank disc, I put one in&#8230;and it popped it right back out and asked again for a blank disc. &#8220;That&#8217;s odd,&#8221; I thought, and put the disc back in. This time iPhoto went ahead and started chugging away, and I didn&#8217;t think more of it.<\/p>\n<p>Until iPhoto finished burning, and the disc never mounted on the desktop. I started trying to figure out what was going wrong, and then some small part of my brain kicked in. &#8220;Wait a second&#8230;aren&#8217;t there a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videohelp.com\/dvd\" title=\"VideoHelp.com - What is DVD?\">couple different DVD formats<\/a>?&#8221; Sure enough, I&#8217;d picked up a spindle of DVD+R discs, and the Superdrive in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powermac\/\" title=\"Apple - Power Mac G5\">G5<\/a> uses DVD-R discs. Crud.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad the discs weren&#8217;t terribly expensive, and I&#8217;ll just chalk it up as a learning experience. Thanks to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/\" title=\"Office Depot\">Office Depot<\/a> just a few blocks away from my apartment, I now have a spindle of 25 DVD-R discs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/ddSKU.do?level=SK&amp;id=586240&amp;location_info=_SK_586240\" title=\"Philips\u00ae DVD-R Media Spindle, 4.7GB, Pack Of 25\">for only \\$9.99<\/a>, too &#8212; the sale goes through Jan.\u00a08th, and that&#8217;s a pretty good deal, as their spindles of 50 DVD-Rs are priced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/ddSKU.do?level=SK&amp;id=586328&amp;location_info=_SK_586328\" title=\"Philips\u00ae DVD-R Media Spindle, 4.7GB, Pack Of 50\">\\$40<\/a>), all my photos up through 2003 are successfully burned onto one disc, and most of 2004 (Jan-Nov is all that would fit on one DVD) is merrily burning away in the background as I type this.<\/p>\n<p>Boo to the industry for having two competing and incompatible formats, though, especially so similarly named (one is &#8220;DVD &#8216;plus&#8217; R(ecordable)&#8221;, and one is &#8220;DVD &#8216;dash&#8217; R(ecordable)&#8221;, I guess, though it could just as easily be read as &#8220;DVD &#8216;minus&#8217; R(ecordable)&#8221;, which is even more confusing). If I hadn&#8217;t had some vague memory of reading about the different formats at some point in the past, I&#8217;d probably just have assumed that there was something wrong with my computer or the Superdrive, and been a <em>lot<\/em> more frustrated and aggravated than necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%2526albumTerm=Lust%2526songTerm=I Sit on Acid '96%26partnerId%3D30\">I Sit on Acid &#8217;96<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%26partnerId%3D30\">Lords of Acid<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%2526albumTerm=Lust%26partnerId%3D30\">Lust<\/a><\/em> (1996, 4:31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boo to the industry for having two competing and incompatible DVD formats, though, especially so similarly named. 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