Mekias
14th July 2003, 19:16
Just bought a new DVD player Friday (Onkyo DV-CP701) and was a little mad to find out that several of my backup DVDs are having skip problems when playing on this DVD player. I've only played 3 DVDs so far but, of the 3, it was the two TDK DVD+R 4x disks that were skipping. The Fuji DVD+R 2.4x disk didn't have a problem.
3 is still a very small sample size but does this sound like a media problem? Or could it be that my DVD player just doesn't like playing DVD+R disks? (Sometimes it takes a few tries before it recognizes these disks as valid DVDs).
I'm about to return the TDKs for some more Fujis but I think I need to check some more of my backups before jumping to conclusions.
--Specific Playback Information:
First DVD - Re-encoded backup of "The Ring" on TDK (using RecordNow). Small skips or pauses through most of the movie with skips of up to several minutes toward the end of the movie and through the extras. (Seems to play fine in my Playstation).
Second DVD - Straight 1-to-1 backup of "Better off Dead" on TDK (using DVDDecrypter). Watched first 45 minutes or so, had small skips or pauses.
Third DVD - Re-encoded backup of "Van Wilder" on Fuji (using RecordNow). Played perfectly all the way through.
3 is still a very small sample size but does this sound like a media problem? Or could it be that my DVD player just doesn't like playing DVD+R disks? (Sometimes it takes a few tries before it recognizes these disks as valid DVDs).
I'm about to return the TDKs for some more Fujis but I think I need to check some more of my backups before jumping to conclusions.
--Specific Playback Information:
First DVD - Re-encoded backup of "The Ring" on TDK (using RecordNow). Small skips or pauses through most of the movie with skips of up to several minutes toward the end of the movie and through the extras. (Seems to play fine in my Playstation).
Second DVD - Straight 1-to-1 backup of "Better off Dead" on TDK (using DVDDecrypter). Watched first 45 minutes or so, had small skips or pauses.
Third DVD - Re-encoded backup of "Van Wilder" on Fuji (using RecordNow). Played perfectly all the way through.