#1 Burning Software

What's the difference between Roxio, Nero, StarBurn, SwiftDisc? Some burning software use the same option for SAO and DAO. SwiftDisc uses SAO and TAO for CD and DAO and Incremental for DVD? What's the difference between SAO and DAO? Roxio and Nero only offers TAO and DAO.

Biggest difference is - we don't ask for your money. Nero, Roxio and others - do. StarBurn is FREE and their burning tools are NOT.

Back to the SAO Vs. DAO... Actually it's StarBurn who call the things with their real names. For some reason Nero calls SAO "DAO".
I don't know why. You'd better ask Nero support For DVDs true name is "DVD DAO" but as this mode is pretty much the same as
TAO for CDs (uses pseudo-2048 byte blocks) we do call it "TAO" not to confuse the users

Actually there are multiple modes for SAO. RAW SAO + SUB is *very* close to DAO (raw content is written and complete control over burning process is provided).
At the same time "generic SAO" is pretty close to say TAO with many tracks (cooked data is recorded, subchennel reconstructed with the drive etc).