I find it hard to believe that Dell used a single drive type DVD. Today almost all DVD drives are dual types. But if it is a single type drive, then you can only use the type it was made for. In your case DVD+. The good news is after you burn a movie etc. once it is finalized it become DVD period. In the case of a movie it can be played on any system.  So as in the case of Beta vs VHS, this poses no problem at all.
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  From: Richard Glazier<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] DVD+ or -?


  The answer is "no", it it is a single type drive, you can only use
  the type it was designed to use...

  I had a friend that could not get his drive to work, and that was
  the exact problem. What made it worse, Dell ripped his system
  up trying to "fix" the fact that he had the wrong disks by deleting
  all sorts of things...  They never bothered to tell him it was a single
  type drive...

                                       Rick Glazier

  From: "Robert Citkowitz"
  >I bought a supply of DVD disks - the salesman telling me DVD- is the most
  > popular format.
  > I then learned that my Dell uses a DVD+ drive. Can I get away with the DVD-
  > disks?


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