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Posted by Gary on 02/05/06 13:17
Not wishing to restart the old DVD label debate as such but I had an
interesting problem last week.
It may be relevant.
I had a good copy of a film on a DVD which my daughter could not play. She
said 'it is ok for about 5 mins then it just stops'.
I tried this in my DVD player and it was fine.
I then tried in my puter and it shoved the symptoms described.
I then tried it in my laptop and it was even more unstable!!
I ejected it and the top of the DVD dragged on the top of the DVD drive
slot. It had warped. it was like a round banana.
I removed the lovely printed paper label. and tried again. perfect results.
Gary
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POD {ҿ} wrote:
> "Smid" <smidscot@gmail.com> wrote in news:1138986944.114257.300360
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> > I don't mind that, its 15 minutes which is fast enough... Does it play
> > on your DVD player consistently?
> >
> > Thats the problem I have... Which means I have to track down what is
> > effectively obsolete media..
> >
> > Part of the problem is the limitations, where it says a DVD-R can
> > _only_ be burned at 16 or 8 or 4 speed. I want to burn it at 2 speed
> > (or even 1 speed)for compatibility reasons, it should be able to allow
> > me. I know this information is on the disc, but is there a burning
> > programming which allows me to burn at slower speeds....
>
> To be honest, burn speed should have no relation to the compatability of
> your burn. I burn at the slowest speed because it performs a better
> burn, I use the example of writing with your hand, do it slowly and you
> can press harder on the page, write fast and you cannot afford the time
> to pres so hard. However the standards should still be met and
> therefore compatability should not be an issue. I can see your problem
> being that you have a player that doesn't have a very good laser
> assembly, and so had difficulty picking up the data from the faster
> written discs, but I'm optomistic that with a new burner, with discs
> with a good modern dye, you should be able to make discs that will play.
>
> May I recommend discs made by Taiyo Yuden, SVP down in Devon clearly
> list discs that are made by them. and overall consensus is that you end
> up with next to none coaster.
I see what you are saying, and that seems reasonable. I bought some
printable "Ritek" (I think it doesn't make a difference about Ritek
nowadays) and they messed about. But since my good 4/2 ones are
Datawrite (Yellow), if I bought Datawrite (Yellow) 8x/4x then they
should work fine...
Seems reasonable, I'll give that a go. Thanks!
Smid
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