DVD-r/+R question

[Hoagie_one]

If i burn a DVD with a -R burner can it be read by any data DVD rom drive?

If i burn a DVD with a -R burner can it be read by any a DVD+R rom drive?

How bought with the +

I need to burn some data disks but i need them to be able to be read in a different computers dvd drive.  No problems here right?

[shmokes]

With either format you will have a near 100% success rate reading them in any DVD-ROM or -R/+R recorder.  The compatability issues show up when it comes to reading those discs in set-top DVD players, i.e., the ones attached to your TV's for playing movies.  I think that the -R have had a little better compatability with set-top players so far, but +R have been closing that gap and with Pioneer supporting both formats in their new model (they developed the -R format) the writing is on the wall.  +R will become the dominant format until we move to Blu-Ray, but either is fine.  

FWIW I've got the Pioneer A04 model (one of the, if not the first of their DVD-Burners).  It is a -R model and I have never found a DVD-ROM or Set-top player that wouldn't play my burned discs.

Oh yeah.... -R media is significantly less expensive right now.

[MannyTC]

If you want to be safe do like I did and get the Sony DRU500 burner. It will burn - and + for the best of both worlds.