Ugly report on media from CDRecordable.com

[Commander XJL]

Well, I'm finding out you get what you pay for. After burning 3 or 4 movies and checking them by skipping around and watching 5 minutes of a movie at a time, I posted that these DVD's are great like other people have. Now, after going back and actually watching these movies from start to finish, every one of them has bad spots in it. Anywhere on the disk from begining to end I get things like a few seconds of blocking, or the sound goes out. Its only for a few seconds at a time, but its off and on through the whole movie. I haven't burned one disk yet that is perfect like when I use Apple, TDK, Maxell, or Pioneer. I guess its common sense that if other DVD's are 5 - 8 dollars a piece and these are 2 then there is a reason and its not a good one. I hope you guys that say these disks are good are watching your movies from start to finish or you don't know. I just ordered another 75 bucks worth of cdrecordable.com disks the day before I found out they aren't too good, and the second I get them there going on Ebay, I'll stick to Apple DVD's for 5 dollars a piece, at least they're perfect

[ByronE]

I've been using the DVD-Pro's that are now starting to actually go for under $2 a piece (of course right after I bought a spindle at $2.80 a piece!)...in any case, I've wathed maybe 5 out of 10 dvd's I've burnt on them, and a few friends have borrowed them as well, and the only players haveing issues are the PS2's...I just upgraded my AO3's firmware though, which people have said fixes that problem. Any other other problems I've had have ALL traced back to something I screwed up myself in the ifo-editing when I was still learning it. Granted, I cant claim there GREAT, they only burn at 1x, and I have gone through a 100 spindle or even close yet, so, you never no...

[Commander XJL]

I watched another movie now I did with this media, and this one was ok. So out of 4 movies 3 were srewed up. All of these movies were straight DVD backups, and thats why I'm affraid its the media. The only way to be sure is from now on I'm gonna burn everything I do to name brand DVDRW and watch it before I burn it to this media and then watch it again and compare, its a lot of time but its the only way to be sure, but it sure doesn't look good for this generic media

[smoof]

You may have seen this thread concerning the exact same problems...

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23542

The best thing you can do is select the verify data option if your burning program supports it. If not, just try and read the files back to your hard drive after burning. It will expose the problems immediately (instead of waiting until you watch the movie).


Here's the thread about some blanks that I've had success with...

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23735

[blade29]

Just curious as to what burning software everyone is using? I've burned about 12 DVDs with no problems. I'm using DVDMaestro to author and Prassi to burn. Very smooth. I've even done a DVD to DVD copy (ripped movie) with Prassi with good results. I'm using Windows XP Pro, Athlon 1400 processor, 512 DDR Ram, 2 40 Gig 7200 RPM drives, and a Pioneer A03 burner.

blade29

[Antonio S.]

I also have the same problem with dvd-r's from CD Recordable.com . However I try a cheap media from Judysdeals DVD-R Superstore (http://7925.adahost.com/dvdr/index.html) and they work like Apple or Pioneer media for about $2.50 ea...

Antonio S.
http://www.antonio.owns.it

[Commander XJL]

Antonio S, does the juddydeals dvdr's really work? Have you actually watched these movies all the way through? There are people on this forum that aren't watching their dvd's all the way through and saying they work great then when they watch them they find out their screwed

[Antonio S.]

Commander XJL:

Yes, the Judysdeal DVD-R's works very well, they are as good as the Apple, Panasonic, and/or Pioneer Media. I tried other cheap media from Meritline, Princo, CD Recordable.com, CDR DVDR, Shop4tech, and all of them have the same problem ( a lot of skips, blocking, pixelation, "No Disk Error", especially at the end of the media ). I ordered 20 of them about 1 month ago. I had burn and watch 14 of them with no problem at all. The only trouble with this media is that you can not burn them at 2x speed...

Antonio S.
http://www.antonio.owns.it

[SoujiroTheTenken]

I am having trouble getting the Judysdeal to work in a new PS2. I dont know what version it is or if it makes a difference. I have gotten a generic dvd-r from www.hypermicro.com and they work in the PS2. I just gave Judysdeal a shot thinking it would be more compatible in other players other than my Pioneer dv-525. I just ordered 20 from ILY and hopefully those willl work well. This whole "best media" debate is very sensitive due to user error. I dont know who to believe.

[padre]

I can vouch for Judysdeals media. I've burned over 100 DVDs and watched just over 50 of them -beginning to end- and not had a problem. The only coasters I've burned are my mistakes, not running Get VTS Sectors before burning, stuff like that.

I think SoujiroTheTenken was right on when he said that "debate is very sensitive due to user error". I've seen on this forum where posters are getting slammed for providing positive results when burning with brand X media. It's like someone's taking it personally, or they think the poster is say "nah, nah, I got it work and you didn't!". They're not. They are offering their opinion on their experience with the discs and if your results are different, fine - just post the results and share that information with the group.

Padre

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by blade29
Just curious as to what burning software everyone is using?

I use Nero 5.5.8.0. I had TONS of problems with previous versions (even though others said they got it to work selecting UDF), but there is actually a "DVD Video" option in 5.5.8.0. I haven't had any problems at all and it supports the "burn-proof" on my DVR-104.