Tired old chestnut this, but...dvd burner formats

[Whickerman]

Both my pc and laptop are fitted with dvd burners, a total of 3. All are different brands, all work well. BUT -all of them are supposed to be capable of burning + and - format discs, yet will only recognise +. Can you tell me if there's a function/control box where I can choose the formats or enable the blooming things to work as they should? Running XP, no probs whatsoever with them burning plus formats.

Not a major issue, but one of those niggling things...!

[ACtheTROLL]

+- is a "model"

when you but DVD you have the option of +- or RW

- was the original general purpose format
the manufacturers did a betamax job and brought out +
which is optimised for large files (movies)

[SSSid]

imposter!