In today’s Circuits section of the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Sony’s new RDR-GX7, the first dual-format DVD recorder that hooks up to a television. He likes the player, but sorting out which recordable DVD format will work where is a huge headache:
Discs you record in either -R or -RW Video format work in other players, but you can’t edit or erase individual segments from them. Discs in -RW format, VR mode, don’t work in regular players. I couldn’t get an unfinalized DVD+RW disc to play on any other machine; once finalized, it played on a Sony DVD player but not a laptop DVD drive.
