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Re: burnt DVD's playing up
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Fri, 24 September 2004 06:55
 
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| thechuckster wrote on Mon, 20 September 2004 20:58 |
i thought it was pretty obvious... anyway, this is what we found...
Burner = internal Pioneer A107 ($140 from Umart)
Software = Toast v6 (titanium) - most popular burning software on Macintosh
Workstation = G4 running v10.3 OS X
Media #1 = Strathfield Audio DVD writables (under 99c)
plays on all cheap (e.g. non sony) domestic DVD players without error. Sony DVD player started ot have errors after first use. Continues to play on cheapest DVD player
Media #2 - Verbatim
plays on all cheap domestic DVD players without error. Reports same kinds of errors (from scratches) on all players - but only after many months of (ab)use.
conclusions:
- quality of media is key so you get what you pay for
- the cheapest burner and player dont care what media they are fed.
- mutliple burn sessions are recipe for drink coasters - dont bother unless you want to waste all your DVDR media
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This makes sense considering that the cheaper media (e.g. Princo, Ritek etc.) isn't licensed media and often doesn't conform to the philips standard.
The more expensive players would have been calibrated for media which is within philips specs and as such will probably read in spec media better than any other players but will have a hard time reading out of spec discs.
The X-Box to me is one of the most finely calibrated players on the market and is my benchmark of disc quality... basically put if it plays on my xbox with philips drive then it's a good disc... if it doesn't then it is either an average or below average disc.
FYI the only discs that play in my xbox that I've found are Fortis 4x DVD+/-R's, Fortis 2x +/-R's, Verbatim 4x DVD+R's and TDK 4x DVD+R's.
Princo, Ritek, Laser and heaps of other no brand discs refuse to play in the xbox.
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burnt DVD's playing up
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GIN51E | Mon, 20 September 2004 09:00 |
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sleeker162 | Mon, 20 September 2004 09:05 |
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GIN51E | Mon, 20 September 2004 09:23 |
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thechuckster | Mon, 20 September 2004 09:45 |
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GIN51E | Mon, 20 September 2004 10:38 |
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thechuckster | Mon, 20 September 2004 10:58 |
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Toobs | Fri, 24 September 2004 06:55 |
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sleeker162 | Mon, 20 September 2004 10:43 |
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sleeker162 | Mon, 20 September 2004 10:59 |
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Siktoy ra23 | Mon, 20 September 2004 11:46 |
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rob_RA40 | Mon, 20 September 2004 22:52 |
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Nark | Tue, 21 September 2004 00:27 |
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MR 1JZ | Thu, 23 September 2004 08:48 |
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Nark | Thu, 23 September 2004 23:05 |
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GIN51E | Thu, 23 September 2004 07:08 |
