BassPig
16th July 2010, 01:59
I had a rather embarassing situation happen, which has never happened before in the 9+ years that I've been authoring and burning DVD videos:
I burned an evaluation copy of a training video that I produced for client in NYC, using my most reliable media, which for many years has been TDK. As usual before sending, I play the disc on a Pioneer DV-343 player, and also check it on a Panasonic player, checking the menus with both 4:3 and 16:9 televisions and skipping to various parts of the disc to look for any playback issues.
This disc was clean when I mailed it. Client received it, tried to play it on his Mac and it would play the opening credits and then dump to the menu. I had him try another player. So he tried a set top player. There, it played about 3/4 of the way through (90 minute program) and then froze into macro blocks.
I recall that the day I mailed it, we were experiencing 100° + temperatures in the northeast. I can only presume that the disc was sitting in an overheated postal truck and the dye melted or became modified in the heat. I have never had problems with discs not playing at clients before this.
Has anyone information on environmental testing of DVD-R media and what the safe temperatures are before the disc is damaged to unreadability?
Later on, I am going to need to send one of these discs to a replicator in NJ, so I need to make sure that the disc is completely 100% readable when it gets there. This little incident really worries me.
I burned an evaluation copy of a training video that I produced for client in NYC, using my most reliable media, which for many years has been TDK. As usual before sending, I play the disc on a Pioneer DV-343 player, and also check it on a Panasonic player, checking the menus with both 4:3 and 16:9 televisions and skipping to various parts of the disc to look for any playback issues.
This disc was clean when I mailed it. Client received it, tried to play it on his Mac and it would play the opening credits and then dump to the menu. I had him try another player. So he tried a set top player. There, it played about 3/4 of the way through (90 minute program) and then froze into macro blocks.
I recall that the day I mailed it, we were experiencing 100° + temperatures in the northeast. I can only presume that the disc was sitting in an overheated postal truck and the dye melted or became modified in the heat. I have never had problems with discs not playing at clients before this.
Has anyone information on environmental testing of DVD-R media and what the safe temperatures are before the disc is damaged to unreadability?
Later on, I am going to need to send one of these discs to a replicator in NJ, so I need to make sure that the disc is completely 100% readable when it gets there. This little incident really worries me.