Pioneer 105 -R Media Compatibility?

[goodl]

I have purchased a Pioneer 105 from a local computer fair and purchased one 'INTENSO' brand (www.intenso.de) DVD-R with it. The media refused to be recognised as a writeable disc in the drive so I borrowed an ALL4MATS (www.all4mats.com)DVD-R from a friend which I burned a DVD Movie on to at 1x and that played perfectly :confused: . Is there a list of media that the 105 does not like. I noticed someone selling 15 Datawrite DVD-Rs on Ebay because their 105 didn't like them and I dont want to buy a spindle of media that will prove incompatible. The INTENSO disc recognised fine in my friends 104 writer however so I'm even more confused. I also have a Ricoh DVD+R writer and haven't had any blank media recognition problems with that. ANyone else have any experience of this?

[goodl]

Just for the record I am using firmware 1.21

[goodl]

Interesting test results with various media here

http://www.mobiltech-media.com/a05_testresults.txt

[Doom9]

afaik Intension doesn't have a media Identifier code.. could be the reason why the A05 doesn't like it.

[goodl]

I know I'm answering my own question here but here's some more media reports at multiple speeds. Hope my research has helped somebody. I wish I'd bought an A04 as it doesnt seem t have these myriad of cheap media burning problems.
http://a05.halifrag.com/umlist.php:angry:

[goodl]

On the INTENSO website they specifically say they work with Pioneer writers though they aren't specific with the model numbers. I have used this brand in my +R Ricoh and they are fine. This sucks! Sort it out Pioneer! :angry:

[delly01]

Originally posted by goodl
On the INTENSO website they specifically say they work with Pioneer writers though they aren't specific with the model numbers. I have used this brand in my +R Ricoh and they are fine. This sucks! Sort it out Pioneer! :angry:

I suggest that You read up on the topic and sort your attitude. Intenso sells DVD-R from CD-Fabrik Dessau and DVD+R from Prodisc an Ritek.

Therefore, your experiences with their media are not in any way related to the quality of their DVD-R-media.

Both media scored badly in c't's test.

Getting bad burns from Intenso is a result of the old garbage-in-garbage-out rule.

Bye,

Detlev

[goodl]

The Intenso disc cost 1gbp, I wasn't aware these were classed as sub-par media. If that's the case then fine.

[FWMan]

Check out CalOptic.com
www.caloptic.com

We just done the test with their 4x DVD-R media.
Sony DRU-500.
Pioneer A05 and 105
TEAC DVW50E-002 4x DVD-R - same Pioneer Engine.

It works on all of the above drive.
Hint: for Pioneer A04/104 with firmware 1.31 and Toshiba SD-R5002
CalOptic.com 1x Ritek will write at 2x.

Peace.

FWMan