If I had it to do over again I'd just save a few bucks and get a DVD-R recorder. All the media I buy are -R because they're cheaper and I've had no problems with them on data storage, games, or movies. From what I understan + & - are pretty much the same. The + media was created by the larger corporations so that they could make their dvd recorders specific to their media. Basically if you bought their recorder you bought their media. Just my $.02