help buying a burner that writes 99min pls

[movmasty]

im gonna buy a new burner and id like that it does CD of 99minutes fine,
so i ask to who is experienced in this to advice me what burner to buy.

my shop sells plextor,but i could buy another type too. TIA

[theReal]

I'd recommend Plextor, I have a 16/10/40A and I like it very much, but the writer list on http://www.feurio.net/English/Writerdb/list_all.shtml says that all Plextor writers can only burn up to 94:59 on 99min cdrs. I don't know if this is what you want, then.

[movmasty]

many thanks for your linked reply,
yes, 95mins is fine, just like more than 700mb.

could i ask you how 94:59 is in MegaBytes??

[yingx2]

Hi,
here's what you want:

74min = 650MB
80min = 702MB
90min = 790MB
95min = 834MB
99min = 870MB

1 Minute = 8.78MB (Approximately)

[theReal]

btw. i tried burning 90 min cdrs (I had downloaded files that were 780 and 760MB, so I had no choice).
I think these cdrs are not very reliable, they're hard to read even for a DVDRom drive and you can't burn them fast. I burned them 8x and maybe that was too fast already. I don't think any of my cdroms will be able to read that cdrs in a year ahead from now...

So, why not split videos on 2 reliable 700MB CDRs? You get 1400MB instead of 800 or 870 and you can rely on these cdrs (as long as they're mitsui ;) )

[movmasty]

eh............
does cdrs means rewritable? i need only to burn a disk once.

concluding, these CD of 99minutes, are good or not?

my actual cd player have probs to read 80mins,
then the new will play fine 80mins but will have same problems with the 99mins??

ill have to trash my movies burned on a 99 minutes CD???????

DVD writers begin to be affordable, possible that we have still problems with CD of 900 mb??????????

[theReal]

I think there are no rewritables >700MB
cdr stands for "recordable", the "s" was meant as a plural-s ;)

I personally don't rely on the quality of all cdr's which are not Mitsui or Kodak because I have lost quite a few cds of my mp3 collection because I had been using cheap cdr's.
So, as long as there are no labelled Mitsui 99min, I won't burn good movie rips on unreliable media.

[movmasty]

ok, mitsui makes also CD writers..........

[theReal]

ok, mitsui makes also CD writers..........I don't know if their writers are any better than others, but their cdrs are!

[murattttt]

I've bought a LG 8160 b 16x writer months ago and very happy with it. I only burned two 99 min discs at 8x for testing purposes and it came out nice but I do not wish to continue because not many CDroms can read them without problems.

IMHO do not go for an expensive and unnecessary TDK or Plextor for the few things you will never use.:o

[twist2]

check out WWW6.tomshardware.com

they did a test on 99min disks. I think they used an ASUS writer, but one thing noteworthy was that they suggested writing at as low a speed as possible to get it correctly at the extreme edge of the disk. So try 1x,2x,4x ...... maybe that will make them more consistently readable....


:)

[movmasty]

0.5 too..........

[axia]

I write svcds at 16 speed on 99s of 975mb images, no probs.
Liteon 24x with the latest firmware, the latest verion of nero/clone/deamon tools

[brashquido]

You can find a bit more info on the 99 minute media at

http://www.disc4you.com/news/99min.html

[timmyg]

goto
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020411/index.html
that should tell you all you want to know