DVD + R or -R for movies?

What DVDs should I buy for movies? + R or -R?
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It depends on whether the DVD player can read DVD + R (older types didn't. So I divide it into 1 - multimedia DVD -R (audio-video) for both the player and the computer 2 - multimedia and data DVD + R (audio -video, data and software) for the computer
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