You just gave me flashbacks working tech retail at the time and everyone asking, but we were powerless to tell them what they needed. Our answer was always try the most popular version and if it doesn’t work out, write down the dvd symbol on your drive and come back.
Reminded me what an absolute mess recordable disc media was during the early-to-mid-00s.
Oh you want to write a disc?
Which type of media do you want? A CD or DVD? R, RW or RAM? Plus or minus?
Which do you choose? Well it depends on your drive but also kinda the drives you want to read from it too in some cases… Here I’ve got a chart
I had a mini disk stereo decades ago. That thing was cool while it very shortly lasted.
You just gave me flashbacks working tech retail at the time and everyone asking, but we were powerless to tell them what they needed. Our answer was always try the most popular version and if it doesn’t work out, write down the dvd symbol on your drive and come back.
I thought things got better towards the mid 2000, I think by then most drives supported most formats.
Early? 2000s was a mess though.
Yeah, much like USB C