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Summary: Cheaper Alternative to Apple DVD Media
Review: Having recently purchased a iMac with a superdrive to enable me to burn DVD's, I was happy to find the ProMedia DVD-R as a nice substitude to the more expensive Apple DVD media. While Apple recommends its branded media, this worked just fine. I have used this media mainly for backup of files (which is great) but have also used it to make a DVD-movie with iDVD. Keep in mind that just because you burn a *standard* DVD, it probably won't work in most older commerical DVD playback units. This is the least expensive media I have found that works just great in the iMac superdrive.
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Summary: Good product
Review: This is probably the best option for branded DVD-R media at this time (October 2002). The price is quite low compared to other brands (like Pioneer or Sony) because of the rebate, and the quality of the discs themselves is excellent.
DVD-Rs are the best for DVD Video (DVD+R doesn't work on many devices, including the Playstation 2 - or at least, so I heard from people who tried to use it, but I don't have a DVD+R burner myself to check this), and its 4.7 GB make the DVD format a good option for backup of larger files by home users.
Just a warning: the 4.7 GB is calculated the same way the space is calculated for Hard Drives: 1 GB = 1,000,000 bytes, so 4.7 GB = 4,700,000 bytes. This means the REAL avaliable size is around 4.4 GB (but this same "logic" aplies to every other DVD format, including DVD+R/RW).Recommended for:
1) Backup of personal data (1 x DVD = 7 x 650Mb CDs or 6.5 x 700 Mb CDs, so it saves space on your shelf)
2) Creation of DVD Video (as long as you have the hardware and software to capture and compress your video to MPEG 2, the standard of DVD Video)
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