Bad DVD+R from Verbatim

[atreides93]

I recently burned a backup of Matrix Reloaded onto a DVD+R. It was a 25 pack spindle of Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD+R's. The disks show that they're made by RICOHJPN. Unfortnately, I had one so far, that showed all sorts of errors near the end of the movie. In this case it was right when Neo was about to choose a door and go save Trinity....what a bad place to end the movie eh? heheheh had to pull out the original, which totally sucks. Did you notice in the original you can't turn subtitles on/off whenever you want, you have to use the stupid menus to do it? What idiots. I hate when these people restrict what we can do with the damn movie we bought. That's just nuts.

[gooki]

Verbatim are generally prety good with returns, so if you can be bothered you should be able to get the bad disc replaced.

But then if it's only one disc out of 25 is it realy worth the trouble.

[alexnoe]

Why do people still buy Verbatim DLP on spindles :confused:

[atreides93]

ok ok. i won't buy them again!

[coona]

In my opinion Verbatim Data Life Plus (MCC) +R media are not as good as they should be. My last 5 backups are choppy and unwatchable in second half of the disc. All of them were burned with ImgTool Classic and DVDecrypter. I´ll try to switch to RICOHJPN to make some tests...

[alexnoe]

or try Taiyo Yuden DVD+R (e.g. 'Plextor'), or some Mitsubishi or Maxell DVD-R ;)

[nesskiel]

your resiluts with DVD media depends a lot of you DVD burner.
I don't know the brand of yours but those two DVD+R show outstanding results:


Brand: Verbatim Data Life Plus
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemicals
Code: MCC002
Disc Type: DVD+R
Capacity: 4483MB
Certified Speed: 4X



Brand: Verbatim Data Life Plus
Manufacturer:Taiyo Yuden
Code: YUDEN000T01
Disc Type: DVD+R
Capacity:4483MB
Certified Speed: 4X


Ness

[macrosii]

I just used the 1st of a batch of indvidual TDK 1-4X +R and it also has RICHOJPN code. Not too worried as my last batch of Riteks were also RICHO and were all ok but I have paid twice as much for these. Seems like its luck of the draw what you get.

By the way the 1st disks I bought was a cake of Verbatems Code GMC and they were worse than bulkpaq, but thats well known.

[gooki]

"TDK 1-4X +R and it also has RICHOJPN code. Not too worried as my last batch of Riteks were also RICHO and were all ok but I have paid twice as much for these. Seems like its luck of the draw what you get."

Some software reports the manufacturer code of DVD+R media incorrectly.