Want to back up images and music and videos to dvd, between the following which should i get. it’s for the writer in the tr5mp?

8cm DVD-R


DVD+R/RW


DVD-R/RW

DVD-RAM

The tr5mp’s got a DVD-RW, and it doesn’t support DVD+RW. I don’t know about DVD-RAM, but I doubt it.

After having bad experiences with single write DVD-R, I went for DVD-RW, if the burn crashes you just format the DVD and start again. In the end it worked out cheaper for me, and also they play on most domestic DVD players.

what’s the difference between dvd-rw and dvd+rw?

It’s 2 ways of doing the same thing, I thinks it’s kinda like Beta & VHS, except one writes with a positive image and one with a negative. DVD-RW is supported by most home DVD players, where DVD+R is not (or was not).

They’re different formats. 

If the TR5 uses the same dvd writer as the TR3AP3 (i.e. matshita UJ-12??)then the specification page (groovy had given me the link) does say that it can write to DVD-RAM discs as well.

However, Nero 6 Ultra edition did not have a check mark for DVD-RAM discs under the write section.