DVD-RAM Disc Editing

[SeeMoreDigital]

This may be a stupid question..... but.....

Is the hype true about DVD-RAM disc editing being easier to do than DVD-R or DVD+R?

If so, can the method that is used for DVD-RAM disc editing be used on a hard disk too?

Cheers

[Fotis_Greece]

What to you mean by this? There isn't such thing as DVD-RAM editng. There also isn't such thing as DVD-+R editing.
You can just as well create your dvd-video files for example and burn them to dvd-ram. If you have a dvd-rom capable of reading ram discs (such as my Tochiba SD-M1612) or a set top dvd player (mostly from Panasonic) that read them you can enjoy your movie.
Forgot to tell you also that you need the dvd-ram redorder to burn it. You can buy one from Toshiba

[SeeMoreDigital]

I thought it was possible to easily cut say, the adverts from an DVD-RAM disc encodes.

I'm sure I read somewhere that it used a file system that was akin to mini-disc in this regard!

And that you could record on on part of the disc while watching another part of the disc.

Personally I have only experienced the Philips DVD+R/RW recorders and sadly not the much respected Panasonic range!

Cheers

[gooki]

"I thought it was possible to easily cut say, the adverts from an DVD-RAM disc encodes."

Yes it is because it is a re-writeable format.

In answer to your previous question.

This is a DVD Ram disc:

|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

This is a DVD+/-R disc:

|-----------------------------------------|

As you can see the DVD Ram discs contain many sections. One section can easily be written to while the next section is being read. Where as the DVD+/-R discs is a single continous section hence cannot be written to and read from at the same time.

Or another analogy is think of a DVD Ram disc like a hard drive. Read write and do what you like all at the same time.