Crap discs

[Buttkicker]

Its really starting to P*** ME OFF now
I am slowly coming to the opinion that the discs for my Pioneer A03 are of a very poor standard (ALL OF THEM) Verbartim only ones not as of yet tried.

I have now tried about 5 different types, and the last 4 discs I have done, have all stuck at about a minute from the end, the only recent one that will play the whole way through was Blade 2

which brings me to another point if I am having such poor results, are memebers of this forum telling Porkys about 100% compatability???

I am thinking of buying a Philips DVD+ 890 as "apparently" the compatibility is way better than the Pioneer format, if I still author the DVD,s with my PC, will I then be able to write them via PC to Philips Writer with the spruce up menus etc

this incompatibilty is basically doing my head in, and its now time to find a solution, the lastest disc failures are the newest Datasafe classics which are supposed to be the best, well so far 2 discs burned and 2 discs stick 30 seconds from the end

[Navellint]

hi,
Some people say Verbatim are the bestmedia. I can imagine how frustrating it is to see the session crash when it's about to be finished. Sounds like some other problem than media.

Of course you can write to another burner with all you've authored: the authoring process has nothing to do with the burning (correct me if i'm wrong, i just don't see a problem there).

I use Philips dvd+rw 228k and burn only Philips and Nashua discs (dvd+r/rw) w/o problems. I had to upgrade nero 5.5.8.1 to 5.5.9.9 though, because it wouldn't burn dvd+r at first. I haven't found a software/dvd-rom/standalone player that won't play the discs (except a toshiba-dvd-rom that won't play the Philips dvd+rw)

Why don't you try some -rw until you find the actual problem?

[Buttkicker]

Why don't you try some -rw until you find the actual problem?


The actual problem is the DVD-R discs not the DVD-RW discs, they play fine.
There is no problem at all with the writer its the bloody crap discs, i will now be trying Vebatim and if they are the same the
new Phillips 890 will be making an appearance at my house very shortly.
:devil: :devil: :devil:

[DIggedy]

I found the Apple media to be perfect... I'm using them on a G4 Mac with a Pioneer DVR-103, but I'd imagine they'd be just as happy in a PC. So far I've burnt about 40 discs without a single failed write.

[rjgn]

Could you list the different types of discs you've tried?

I also had nothing but problems with the Datasafe Classics. But the Datasafe Ritek's worked perfectly.

[klona]

From various posts, since a while, results are :

Apple and pioneer branded are the most reliable brand.

Cheap DVD-R reported as quality are Ritek G3.

TDK,Verbatim,princo and whatever other brands gives good result for some people, bad for others.

remember, the result is a mix of DVD burning Tool/Media/Burner&Firmware/Standalone player.
If you add rip,encoding and authoring errors, you can see it's quite a nighmare.

We don't have even a way to really test a media; See the sticky post and you will understand that a Zero I/O error DVD-R in a PC does not necesseraly means it will work in standalone or console...