DVD-R's

Might be a totally dumb question, but could anyone tell me please why a DVD-/+Rs write-side isn't the same color as a pressed one's?
I mean ... there are even "normal" (silver) colored CD-R. So what's the matter?

Well, here's a wild guess from me, knowing next to nothing about this stuff; I'd say it's a deliberate choice to let users be able to distinguish between real and pirated discs easily. If you couldn't tell that the disc was pirated by giving it a quick glance, it would make things a lot easier for people wanting to sell bootlegs of software without letting their customers know about it, and therefore be able to jack up the price.

Since you can get pretty decent label-thingies on top which look pretty much like the real thing unless you know your shit or study it closely, a writable side which looked like the real thing as well would make things confusing.

I don't know if this is the real reason, but I'm pretty darned sure that the film-industry wouldn't be particularly happy chappies if they started making writable discs that looked like the real thing.

STAMPED VS BURNED

WELCOME TO DVDS

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What he said. "Commercial" DVDs are stamped. DVDs that you "burn" are coated on the underside with a coating that reacts to certain frequencies of light. Hit it with a laser in a burner and the ink becomes transparent, emulating the "pits" on a stamped disc. RW discs have coatings that can change back and forth, allowing you to rewrite them.