"Why should we buy the gold disc (original) and NOT the purple disc (DVD-R)?" Disc readers or players, use a laser to "read" what is on the reflective side of the disc. What a recordable disc (CD-R, DVD-R) does, is to simulate these pits and lands, which are "burned" using a laser beam on a layer of dye. He added that if cheap materials are used to create a stamped disc, it will logically not last as long as a recordable disc made with top-shelf materials. And no, it will not look or sound better, even if it was on a gold disc.

Source: The Star May 08, 2023 13:00 UTC