Forcefully erase a DVD_RW

[Movieslut]

Guys,

Every week I convert my favourite tv shows to dvd to watch them on my stand alone. This causes the disks to be rewritten over and over again for like 43 minutes. If I do this often enoug, say 50 times, the quality of the disk starts to deteriorate. If I try to completely erase the disk, it (Nero or Alcohol) stops at the 40-or-so minute position and returns a write error.
I'd like to force my burner to continue erasing because I believe it is because of the repeatedly writing up until the same position on the disk. I guess that this causes some freak effect on the media, which in its turn causes the write error.
I've been googling on this topic to see if there is software that ignores such errors and forcefully erases a disk, but I havent found anything useful.
I found SuperBlank, which supposedly should do just this, but that doesnt do anything. If I click Blank nothing happens.
Anyone has the same issue and has managed to resolve this?

Thanks!

[Sirber]

Sorry, I rarely use RW media, since I keep all my stuff :). I cannot help :( I remember somewhere saying you can burn a RW media 1000 times.

[Smile2]

Just get a new DVD-RW, its cheap and will most likely solve the problem.

[Movieslut]

Just get a new DVD-RW, its cheap and will most likely solve the problem.

Sure, but that is not the point. RWs supposedly should be rewritable for over 1000 times, not 50

[Smile2]

Sure, but that is not the point. RWs supposedly should be rewritable for over 1000 times, not 50

Yup, the point is, not all DVD Media is good, you might be the unlucky one, having a DVD-RW that only can be rewrite 50 times.

[PALace]

I've had problems like this and had to throw out some dvd-rw's after not many burns. The problem could be the media you are using, maybe use another brand.
I got mine on special offer. The win the No Bell :mad: prize for worst media I've ever used.

[dani82]

43 minutes for a complete erase?

note to self: don't bother using dvd-rw


is it really worth all that trouble: record/capture, convert, burn, erase, repeat

me... i rather just uses a vcr; but hey, whatever floats your boat

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just though of this:

if dvd-rw are meant to be rewritten about 1000x, is there a lifespan of how long it can be played?

let's say every week i dl 2gb of unlicenced anime (that's about right), that would be about 4 hours, so on my 1000 burned, i would have watched it for about 4,000 hours (that's getting my moneys worth)

...huh? the point? just cause someone said could be rewritten about 1000x, doesn't mean it could be view 1000x

[Smile2]

it doesn't have any affect on playback, you can play it how many times you want. Only the number of times you can re-burn is limited. but it will get scratched eventually...so I never actually tested that DVD-RW can be burned 1000x.

after a few months or so..a higher speed DVD-RW is available..so,..throw the old one, get a new one.

but...I think the logic is...after you burned it 1000x...maybe the disk layer got melted so badly..or it should be scratched a lot to the point its not playable anymore.

[spuddog]

I used to use dvd+rw for all of my hard disk back-ups and recording shows from tv, I ran into the same problems of disks going bad (errors) after being erased only a few times (20-30). It's much easier to selectively use +r media (good for what you want to keep, cheap for one time use) than to fight with +rw. Lets face it claims of reusability(1000+) and claims of durability(100+ years) are not true.

[MediaMage]

why do you do a complete erase?

I do it this way:
Queue up Files in Nero
Click on "Burn"
Nero asks if it should quickformat the -RW
Only the TOC is deleted then, only takes about a minute
Then the Content is burned

I have had good results with Verbatim 4x DVD-RW, 5 Discs around 6 Euro here in Germany, and one of them is about 100 Times overwritten.