Talk:DVD-RW

Merge with DVD+RW
I suggest merging this article with DVD+RW article, since most of information in these articles is valid for both types. R.U.R. --85.207.165.26 (talk) 14:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Difference between DVD-RW and DVD+RW
The article mentions that DVD+RW is a competing format, but doesn't say what the relative advantages of either is. Pemboid (talk) 08:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Unsigned comment
Other storage discs that are around are DVD-R’s and DVD-RW’s. These came out in the autumn of 1997, and the average size for one of these is 4.7gb. They allow you to do the same as you would with a CD-R or CD-RW, but with a much bigger storage space. These discs are growing too, as earlier this year a new 8.54 dual layered DVD-R. What this means that it has 8.54gb of memory, but is separated and both sides of the disc can now be recorded on. -This unsigned comment was added by User:212.219.63.204 at 10:21, 30 November 2005

To Unfinalize or Reformat?
As i understand it: unfinaliizing will "open" the disc to allow for more recording, while reformating will wipe it blank. Is this correct? Also, does finalizing and unfinalizing a DVD-RW affect the capacity of the disc? How about the reformating of a DVD-RW disc? -This unsigned comment was added by User:68.215.96.183 at 22:45, 17 March 2006
 * This question would be better asked at the Reference Desk. ~Linuxerist L / T 20:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

What is -RW2?
I've seen a new "-RW2" logo on a new Sony GX330 recorder (in addition to the normal disc-shaped DVD-R/RW logo). What is RW2?

I bet I know why the DVD Forum are releasing DVD-RW2, it's because the original -RW is inferior to +RW, so they want to continue their little format war against the DVD+RW aliiance, if it's any good it will have random acsess to its memory like DVD+RW. I'll try and research it. J2F Duck (talk) 11:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

"Incremental Streaming"
Another new feature of DVD-RW. I have no idea what it is or does, though. sendmoreinfo 18:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Capacity calculation error?
1 GB = 1,024 million bytes

Surely when quoting the capacity as 4.7GB, this is using the definition of 1GB = 109bytes. 1GB is not 1024million bytes by any definition. 1GiB = 230bytes = 1,073,741,824bytes. At a stretch, the definition is only correct if by "million bytes" it means MiB. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.147.220 (talk) 15:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Regardless, gibibytes are discouraged in Wikipedia articles. (See WP:MOSNUM) 109.145.22.224 (talk) 16:06, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge of DVD-R - DVD+R - DVD-RW - DVD+RW with DVD recordable
Please discuss this on Talk:DVD recordable