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Originally Posted by Nisaea
is there a difference between a DVD burned with a DVD drive and a DVD burned with a Blu-Ray drive (that can also burn DVDs)?
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Not right now, no.
(Note: I'd opt for a Pioneer Blu-ray drive, if choosing one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B0046K062C
If you live near a Microcenter, they've been on sale there for about $100 each in-store.)
But also consider the historical aspect of CD vs DVD. The earliest of DVD burners worked just as well as CD burners, when it came to CD media. (It was actually the DVD media where drives proved more picky.) However, at that time, DVD drives were expensive, so you had to ask yourself if you wanted to subject your expensive drive to added wear and tear? If your computer could hold both drives types, it was generally a wiser move to keep a CD burner for CDs, and a DVD burner for DVDs.
As time went on, the shift for optical media use transitioned heavily from emphasis on CD to DVD. And in the course of that shift, attention was (based on testing of media through the years) obviously focused more on the DVD burning aspect. As such, it seems that the quality of CD burning fell to the wayside. Indeed, as DVD burners have aged as a technology, newer and newer models actually seem to do worse on CD media!
Now, that was a trend of one popular tech (CD) being displaced for another (DVD). Blu-ray has not proven itself to be as popular, due to only marginal gains (HD somewhat overrated), as well as added weaknesses (physical structure).
But I would still question cost vs trend...
Even if the drives don't achieve the popularity of DVD media, given the somewhat lousy burning abilities of existing burners, and the need to support new media (example: the new Taiyo Yuden BD-R, or LTH vs HTL discs), I can see more effort being put into the Blu-ray portion of the drive, while CD and DVD become more and more of an afterthought.
And then I'd question the idea of using a $100+ drive for DVD burning, when a $20-30 drive will work just as well or better. I can see the benefit of wanting BD abilities, from a viewing perspective (there are some cases where Blu-ray movies can be had for cheaper than the DVD version). If you only have one available drive slot, then you'll have to decide what makes the most sense to your use, and your pocketbook.
Disclaimer: I use an LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD ROM + DVD burner (single SATA drive) in a micro ATX form-factor computer from HP. It came with the system. To date, it burns DVDs pretty well, although Pioneer, Samsung and Sony drives are easily better for absolute burn quality. It does play Blu-ray quite decently. Never tried an HD-DVD, not so far. That computer probably burned 200 discs at most last year, and was used to play BDs maybe a dozen times. So it's really only getting minimal use. Note that this is NOT an endorsement of this drive, simply a stated fact that I own one. Indeed, if I had to go to a store today, and pick a drive, I highly doubt I'd select an LG model.
