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Posted by Smid on 02/03/06 17:12
Damon wrote:
> Smid wrote:
>
> > > Seconded. Although for the sake of £30 or less the OP should get a
> > > much newer drive while he is on there.
> >
> > If you can assure me that it will have far better compatibility, then I
> > would...
>
> Far better compatibility with what? your PC, your Discs, your DVD
> player?
1) Any other PC's DVD Drive, both DVD-RW Writers and -ROMs.
2) Standalone DVD Players, Pioneer (525 and a new one from a year ago).
DVD-RW Recorders (JVC-DRM1)
A disc burned on the last 8x/4x speed media I bought, at 4 speed would
not read in completely in _all_ of those drives/players named above.
This is a DVD-R copy of a film.
Typically they would start playing, get progressively worse, and hang
1/3 way through the movie.
> > I doubt you can, but would like to be surprised...
> >
> > I currently have 8 speed single layers TDK and a Lite-On Drives.
> >
> >
> The above 2 lines made no sense to me, sorry
>
> Wel the latest Pioneer or NEC drives they do should see you alright. I
> have an NEC3500 and it burns most things at 6x or more, there are
> firmware fixes that can let you burn up to 16 x on good quality 8 speed
> discs. I normally wind it down to about 4 speed to be cautious even
> though I know it should be ok
>
> I don't know what you are so worried about, as long as your discs are
> rated at the speed you want to burn, you should be fine.
If I cared about speed, I would burn at the fastest speed. Which would
be fine if I simply wanted to use it in the same PC I burned it in. I
do not care about getting firmware speeds to upgrade to a _faster_
speed. The discs these produce are coasters unless I want to sit in my
room with the PC which wrote it. They are incompatible with any other
drive/player.
I just wanted to know if this technology has improved in the new
drives. I doubt this. It does sound as if you might just have been
lucky, or read a DVD-R on the same machine you burn it, if you haven't
had compatibility problems...
Smid
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