[UpyreNocturnous]

Well the pioneer A04 does use any of the media types which is better than the HP which will only use the +RW media. Most DVD players if you use proffessional DVD authoring software to make a proffessional DVD will play a DVD+R but only as a DVD and not as a VCD or pics or MP3's if your DVD player plays MP3's. Buy the end of the year Pioneer is supposed to have a new DVD burner that not only works with all the different media but it is also a 4 speed burner wich is almost twice as fast as the HP 100i and the new HP 200i. So it all depends on what you want to do with the burner on wich one you should get. Just to inform all of you the MPAA is making it impossible to copy DVD's. all the newer DVD's main movie file will be over 4.7GB so you can't copy the movie without alot of work. And it won't play on normal DVD players without being made with DVD authoring software. So you would have to disassemble the movie convert it over to Mpeg-1 then lower the frame rate to be able to fit it on a 4.7GB disc then you will have to use DVD authoring software to turn your Mpeg-1 file into a DVD. And if you don't have a fast computer it takes forever.Just letting you know so you don't spend hundred's of $ and find out you can't do what you bought it for.