Lets make a list of no working settop players.

[rui.m.godinho]

I know that in this one dvd-r don't play:

Panasonic A360


Lets increase the list.

[rui.m.godinho]

In the thread I want it to say " Lets Make a List of Non Working Settop Players !!!"

In my sony NS700 all dvd-r's work :) That panasonic was of a friend of mine.

[Streetcleaner]

Hi!

my Panasonic A 350 and A 360 play DVD-R fine! Even the A 360 play DVD-RW. The problem is the medias which you are using.

Greetz
Streetcleaner

[rui.m.godinho]

Do you think it's about prico dvd-r ?
But Derow said that image tool would solve all media compatiblity problems !?!?!?

[Streetcleaner]

Hi!

i have read in a german forum that they are not satisfied with those Princos. I have tried Vivastar from switzerland and there are worse too.
I think the problem are the stand alone players because they do not want this cheap discs. I have never tried princo. Perhaps we should work a compatibility list what medias run in wihich player?
I can say in case of Panasonic A 350/360:
Apple DVD-r
Pioneer DVD-r/rw
work fine
Vivastar und www.cdrecordable.com suck.

Please reply und write down your list!

Greetz
Streetcleaner

PS. Perhaps we can all together work out a real list.

[rui.m.godinho]

Hey Streetcleaner

What do you think about the dvd-r media from esbuy.com.
Witch one do you think is best when talking about price/quality ?
The ESBuy.com Brand, Pioneer or Imported for ESBuy.com ? I know that pioneer are best but too much expensive.

[Streetcleaner]

Hi!
i do not know these Medias from esbuy perhaps are here a few german guys from those i can buy a few of them to test them?
Greetz
Streetcleaner

[mikegun]

with dvd-r s from cdrecordable, at least tested with 4 different
players.

regards,

mike

[Streetcleaner]

Can you please post the 4 players and with which software you have burned?


Greetz
Streetcleaner

[mikegun]

1. amoisonic 8506
2. pioneer 737
3. medion noname
4. optim 8302
5. Thomson DTH 4200

I burn with Nero 5.5.7.2 for dvds >4gb
or
images <=4gb with Record Now Max

I'm a win98 lunatic ;-)

regards,

mike

[baumann30]

Hi,
my Pioneer DVD 535 plays all the following DVD+RW media:
hp, philips and ricoh (burned with Nero (latest) and RecordMax.
My Philips DVD 612 also plays the 3 media, but only if RecordMax is used to burn it. (burned with Nero, it does not play it !)
I´m using Win2000 prof. with a Ricoh DVD+RW burner.

[SciFer]

Apple media is probably the best quality/price media. You can go to Fry's and buy 5 for $25 (that's $5 a disk). It's costing me more money trying to save a buck. From what I read it's the same manufactuer that makes the Pioneer brand disk. If you notice it says "Made in Japan" like Pioneer's. My experience is that Japan's media are superior than others. I haven't tried CDRecordables and ESBuy.com but I have tried meritline's. I recently bought a 25 pack (I had ordered once before and supposedly there was a price drop) and with almost every single DVD-R I had problems. These are the purple ones. Out of 25 2 worked only because (in my test conclusions)the size burned was less than 3.5gb and burning higer amounts starts having errors. As if the media quality isn't consistent throughout. I tried all the burning software, I have a Pioneer A03 and a Panasonic LF-D311. Well after having 8 discs left I decided to return them. My prior batch was much better. They were "gold" discs and they told me that they are more expensive, but still a good deal.

My standalone is a Pioneer DV-C302D (plays DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs) and a PS2 (plays DVD-Rs but not DVD-RWs).

[rui.m.godinho]

I saw a forum in vcdhelp.com where a guy said if the media didn´t work we should turn off the player with the dvd-r inside and turn on again with it and this should solve the problem about non-compatible media. What do you think about this, have you guys tried somehow. I'm asking this cause in my player everything works and I wanna to know this from you so I could warn some guys to do this when confronting with this problem.

[SkoalWintergreen]

THe EsBuy Media is really good, I had a few of there gold discs and they work really well on the PS2 as opposed to the meritline media witch works great on settop but skips like crazy on PS2, The playstation 2 is something really good to test your media on, b/c its about as crappy as it gets for DVD players.

[Streetcleaner]

Hi!

that stuff about turning off the player with the disc inside doesn`t work for me. I tried everything.
Greetz

Streetcleaner