Has anyone tried Khypermedia DVDR's?

[Commander XJL]

Has anyone tried Khypermedia DVDR's? Office Max has these disks 5 packs for 15 dollars

[Commander XJL]

Well I found out. I bought a 5 pack to try. First disk wouldn't play in 2 standalones or my computer. Second disk had bad pixalation right from the start. Last 3 disks had pixalation here and there all through the movie, worst towards the end. I used Prassi, Nero, Recordnow, and Gearpro, and it didn't seem to matter. Thats 3 times I've tried cheap disks (and these weren't that cheap) and thats 3 times I've been burned. I can't focking wait til name brand media is down to 1 dollar a disk and these cheap media places all disappear, they all need to.

[tumbar]

Hey Commander XJL,

I ordered 5 TDK individually wrapped at gateway.com yesterday. Probably take a week to get here. Anyway they've got a free shipping deal going on. Ended up 14.75 delivered price for 5 individually wrapped TDK 2X disks in jewel cases.

I'll let you know how they turn out. Seems to me its the best of both worlds, especially if your having trouble with "cheap media". I'm not having trouble at this time, I'm using the accu's at cdrdvdrmedia.com just want see my Pioneer burner burn at 2X speed 5 times...lol.

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[Commander XJL]

Damn dude, thanks for that info, I'll order a bunch, I've burned lots of TDK's with no trouble ever

[Commander XJL]

Well, I just ordered 32 of them for 94 dollars, thanks again!

[bluespot]

Just FYI, hypermicro.com has 25 packs of Verbatim DVD-R discs (branded in jewel cases) for 67.50 + 8.66 (for ground shipping). Works out to about 3.04 each. I bought a 25 pack for 100 + shipping just before they dropped the price :angry:

[jesoonster]

commander..........i never asked. what dvd player do you own?

[Commander XJL]

A Sony, a pioneer DVD changer, and a junky Apex

[jesoonster]

and it doesn't work on ANY of those? OMG..........what miserable luck you've been having with generics.

[jesoonster]

commander since you ahve so much experience with burning dvds i was wondering if you can help me out a bit on splitting some dvds. (i remember back you said you burnt 400).

I'm having some problems with splitting an anime dvd named COWBOY BEBOP.

I posted the info on IFOEDIT. if you can give any suggestions on what to do i would greatly appreciate it.

Just to let you know it's not a simply newbie problem that i have. The guides cannot help me with the problem. Thx :)

[atreides93]

Hey Commander,

Did you try the Ritek's??
I never heard of that bizarre brand you mentioned trying.
Why in the world would you go try those instead of the Riteks' from rima.com like I suggested??

[Commander XJL]

Sorry jesoonster, splitting is the one thing I have no experience at, I always encode or do whatever else to get movies on one disk. I got into DVD authoring to get away from needing to put movies on more than one disk, like when I was into VCD's and SVCD's

[Deepa DvD]

Originally posted by tumbar
Hey Commander XJL,

I ordered 5 TDK individually wrapped at gateway.com yesterday. Probably take a week to get here. Anyway they've got a free shipping deal going on. Ended up 14.75 delivered price for 5 individually wrapped TDK 2X disks in jewel cases.

I'll let you know how they turn out. Seems to me its the best of both worlds, especially if your having trouble with "cheap media". I'm not having trouble at this time, I'm using the accu's at cdrdvdrmedia.com just want see my Pioneer burner burn at 2X speed 5 times...lol.

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Oh yes!I have used The TDK DVD-Rs before & thay are good as Pioneer's.

[jesoonster]

DAMN commander. no wonder why you're so f--ing pissed off for losing all those disks! Hell if i had to re-encode and i lost 400 disks i would be F--KING PISSED as hell.

[Commander XJL]

no dude, I've done about 200, and only lost about a dozen because of generic crap, so don't freak on me

[Navellint]

commander:
can u explain (or point me to a thread) what u mean by pixelation? Is the player 'losing' information while reading so that u c blocks w/o movement / wrong color (like heavily compressed DivX) / choppy sound? If so, is the information still on the disk so u can copy 2 another brand that works again?

[padre]

Usually what pixelation looks like it large or small artifacts or blocks on the screen. I've seen it when I had dirty DVDs, defective media and (recently) a bad DVD player. Other problems with defects can cause skipping and jumping ahead.

The key is - can you duplicate the problem in the same area. For example: I have disc recorded on cdrecordable.com media (crappy stuff) and it jumps and pixelates at 45 minutes in. Every time, every player. That's a media/disc problem.

I had a player problem recently where my Apex 3201 would skip or pixelate randomly. I thought it might have been a media issue, since I play primarily PrimeDisc in it. Wrong. It was the player. I played some pre-recorded DVDs (silver) and they did the same thing. After doing some research, I found there are some Apex 3201's out there with known skipping/pixelation issues. So that turned out NOT to be a media issue.

By the way, the Cdrecordable media I have problems with - can't copy it up to my hard disk for reburning. Because the defect that causes the skipping/pixelation also causes the Pioneer not to read that sector.

[Commander XJL]

Navellint,

You will find that 95 percent of the time pixalation, picture freezing, skipping, ect is because of crap media. The fact that one player will play the disk ok and another won't doesn't mean the problem lies with the one player, it usually means you have questionable media and one player just plays it better. If you were to burn the same project on higher quality media you would probably find that both players would play the disk ok. The fact that the disk will copy back to your drive simply means that your computer's DVD Rom is better at reading these disks, but you still have cheap disks. I've been through this 3 times now with cheap media. Cheap disks DO NOT pixalate in the same area every time. They may play fine in that area the second time and pixalate somewhere else, all of the cheap media I had problems with looked like crap randomely. If you insist on using cheap media from what I'm reading RITEKG03 gets the least complaints, so I would start with those. Oh, and to save yourself a bunch of trouble, ALWAYS have a high quality rewritable around. When you get a disk that looks like crap, burn the same project on that, wait and see what you find most everytime. Also, if you have a disk that looks like crap and your DVD Rom will read it back to your drive, then you probably are ok and can burn it back to better media.

[padre]

95% of the time? I don't think so. Where did you get that stat? Just by browsing the various conversations on this forum, it's pretty split between media problems, DVD player issues and even encoding issues. Some DVD players are just not DVD-R friendly (expensive or cheap media).

The fact that you can read the disc back into the burner may even point to a DVD player problem (in some cases).

There's just no blanket answer to why pixelation happens. It happens for different reasons for different people, using different media, and different encoding/burning applications, and different DVD players.

That's the nice thing about a forum like this: We can find out if anyone is running into the same thing with the same set of circumstances.

[Commander XJL]

Navellint,

Burn your projects in question to a good quality rewritable, then you'll know where the problem is and won't need to listen to anybody, you'll find out for yourself

[padre]

...unless your DVD player has a problem reading rewritables. Some do.

[Navellint]

commander,
i haven't had the problem of pixelation yet (dvd-rom and standalone), i guess because i'm only using philips dvd+r and dvd+rw. Philips seems to have the better media, expensive yes, but reliable (at max speed) and i'm not taking chances. Tnx for clarifying comments.

padre,
also thanks