What is a Recordable DVD-R?
A recordable DVD-R is an optical disc that can be used to permanently store files, music or movies by transferring them from a computer and burning them to disk. A recordable DVD-R looks like a compact disk (CD) but can hold more data and is just one of several types of DVDs, or Digital Versatile Disks, formerly Digital Virtual Disks. The term “recordable DVD-R” is redundant since the “R” stands for recordable, but the term is often used and so will be used here for the reader’s convenience, though the correct usage is simply DVD-R. The dash in “-R” indicates that the disk is formatted according to the “minus” or “dash” standard. Pioneer created this standard in 1997, while a competing recordable format is the DVD+R (“plus”) format, available since 2002, created by the DVD+RW Alliance. The plus standard incorporated many improvements over the minus standard that resulted in more reliable recordings. A DVD formatted to the plus standard is less likely to give errors when recording, when
