@cathoderaydude brought up in his old video about DVD camcorders the truly baffling charts detailing compatibility with different recordable discs and what features they supported, and how nonsensical it all felt. I ran into this firsthand a couple years ago when I picked up a Sony VRD-MC3 - a glorified external DVD burner with some extra ports and a screen tacked onto it. It came with its original manual, and near the back there's THIS nightmare of a page detailing the disc compatibility. I assure you, the longer you look at this thing, the less sense it makes. You feel like a character in a Lovecraft story staring into the hopeless abyss of madness, your own senses slowly unraveling.
Like, it doesn't support using its own interface to make photo or video discs with DVD-R DL. That's fine, this whole box feels pretty half-assed overall so I'm sure they couldn't program the firmware to support dual layer discs properly. Whatever, no biggie, recordable DLs are expensive and unreliable in my experience anyhow.
... But then, why does it support creating video discs on DVD+R DL? Is it because Sony spearheaded the "plus" format, so wanted to push their own discs? That would make sense, but then why doesn't it support creating photo discs on the same media?
And if it was Sony's priority to push "plus" media, then why are DVD-RWs fully supported but DVD+RWs have all these compatibility hangups, like "only able to create video discs when NOT using the USB interface" or "high speed DVD+RWs cannot create photo discs at all, while the slow speed ones can"?
I CAN FEEL MY MIND TEARING ITSELF APART!!!