Jeff Binkley -> All wrote:



 BK>>>>> Tell us again how you can't erase a DVD.

 TW>>>> About 98% of the DVD's CANNOT be Erased Bob.
 TW>>>> Technically that makes the statement Incodrersct. But as a
 TW>>>> practical matter it is a Basic True Statemnt since ONLY a
 TW>>>> particualar DVD that is rarely used can be erased.

 RW>>> And it is 'written over' - rather than erased. What is left
 RW>>> behind of the program you wrote over, can't be seen because
 RW>>> of the 'leader' that tells the reader where to find it, is
 RW>>> written over too.

 BK>> Uh... no...

 BK>> If you write enought to fill a DVD then what you write over has
 BK>> to be gone, otherwise there is no room to write anything else.

 BK>> There is a quick erase, which deletes the records of locations,
 BK>> but that is still written over when the DVD is reused. Then
 BK>> there is a full erase, which wipes the actual data.

 JB> This one leaves me speechless..

It takes your breath away, doesn't it?

Ed

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