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Posted by Erik Harris on 10/19/62 11:29
First of all, I know double-posting this was a breach of netiquette - I meant
to check a few groups and cross-post, but accidentally went ahead and sent
this to another group. For those who are also checking
alt.video.dvd.authoring, I apologize for not properly crossposting this. :)
Does anyone use Memorex DVD+RW discs with a Plextor 716A DVD writer? I got a
spindle of 25 discs on sale, figuring that the way I use RW discs, they'd
last pretty much forever. But I'm finding that after 5-8 rewrites each, the
discs stop passing data verification. I've never before had media go bad so
quickly, and I know that DVD+RW discs are supposed to be rewritable at least
hundreds of times without losing integrity.
I'm handling the discs properly, keeping them clean, etc. There are no
visible problems with any of the media that is failing - no scratches, no
smudges, nothing stuck on the discs, etc. They appear perfectly pristine,
but after working a handful of times, they just stop passing data
verification checks in Nero (I started using Nero to burn authored discs
instead of my authoring software because I kept having discs that would fail
in my DVD player, and the authoring software doesn't have an option to
validate the burn, so Nero is completely blame-free in this matter).
I'm a bit concerned - I know Plextor makes pretty much the best optical
drives out there, but I've also heard of a number of people having their
Plextod drives stop working (or stop working well) pretty early on - it seems
Plextor drives either degrade very quickly or last forever. Other than +RW
discs, I've noticed no problems with this drive, though, so I suspect that
either Memorex media is crap, or it simply doesn't play nice with Plextor's
drives (Memorex doesn't make Plextor's "approved media" list, but I've never
found any problems with non-approved media in the past with drives, and tend
to assume that "approval" means money-changing-hands-marketing-deal as
opposed to anything of actual substance).
Thanks for any help
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