Who makes DVD-R discs?
Currently, there are three companies that are manufacturing and distributing DVD-R media. Pioneer, Taiyo Yuden, and Verbatim are the main three, with more on the way. What is the difference between General Purpose and Authoring media? When DVD-R first hit the market, the first drive to be sold to the public was the S101 DVD-R Recorder from Pioneer. After a while, Pioneer released a new drive to take DVD recording to the next level. Thus, the DVD-R S201 was born. This is the drive that made recording DVD’s popular to the professional industry. The name given to the unit was the Authoring drive. Just recently, Pioneer released a new DVD recorder, the A03. They decided to name this unit the General Purpose drive. The main difference between the two is the laser. In the Authoring drive, a 635nm laser is used, while the General Purpose drive uses a 650nm laser. Also, master DVD discs created on the Authoring drive are capable of being replicated directly from the disc at a replication house
