Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 21 years old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

Now that I have a DVD player, what better thing to have than a DVD burner? After doing what I thought was decent research on the DVD writer alphabet soup out there (-R, +R, -RW, +RW, -RAM, etc.) I chose the HP dvd300i (though I did consider Sony’s multi-format DRU500AX). The HP drive is a +R/+RW format rewritable drive, and I had read that these formats are compatible on 85% of the DVD players out there. I guess I should have considered the fact that my DVD player was made by Panasonic, who is one of the originators of the -R/-RW format. Ooops! As a result, the DVD movie collections I create on my PC won’t play in my living room (or my laptop for some reason). They play fine on my PC, of course, since they play on the same drive that created them. Anyway, I love having the large capacity (4.6gb) of DVD discs now for backups and such. Just beware when researching compatibility!