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Posted by SalesMart.com.au on 04/18/07 08:26
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:20:29 +0200, Massimo <och@'tisnietwaar.nl>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:16:36 GMT, sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site
>(SalesMart.com.au) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:45:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <XMNUh.83538$aG1.4486@pd7urf3no>,
>>>Stuart Miller <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>><edenesiuk@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
>>>>news:1176680902.255879.254670@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> On Mar 30, 2:49 pm, Ron <ron_j_ma...@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi! .....
>>>>>> My "Pioneer" 'DVR-310' DVD Recorder accepts
>>>>>
>>>>> I expect in a year I will have to buy a DVD recorder because VCRs are
>>>>> being phased out. I use my V. continuously and wonder if the
>>>>> recorder discs are as cheap to use/re-use daily. The tapes for V
>>>>> are reusable for a long time is this true of D discs.
>>>>>
>>>>I have seen conflicting data on this. Some people have expereinced failures
>>>>after as few as 10 write/erase cycles. There are posts about this in the
>>>>various dvd newsgroups.
>>>>
>>>>Also, some people have experienced significant signal loss on rewriteabe
>>>>dvd's after month or years, so this apparently should not be considered a
>>>>permanant media.
>>>>
>>>>Your mileage may vary.....
>>>>
>>>>Stuart
>>>
>>>The more expensive DVD-RAM disks - which would be fine if he's
>>>going to use them over and over - are good for thousands of
>>>write/erase cycles. They act more like small hard-drives and can
>>>actually be used as re-writeable filesystems for OSes that
>>>support it.
>
>1. You have to format them in Fat32 to use them as 'harddiscs'. For
>some reason (?) I had to try formatting them under WindowsXP Home
>quite a couple of times in order to succeed formatting them in that
>format. WindowsXP does not support dvd-ram natively, I had to use a
>utility I found on the Pioneer site to be able to use dvd-ram for
>video. Windows Vista should give native support for this kind of
>media.
FAT32 is far to slow to use. Use UDF, you can thank me latter.
The RiDATA DVD-RAM Video media is already fornmatted to UDF which is
what the DVD recorders use.
For the PC you'll need a UDF driver which is in NeroInCD which if you
have Nero you'll likely already have this installed.
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>Also, dvd-ram media are horribly slow so you will have to buy the
>newer 12 x dvd-rams and a drive that can work with these new ram's for
>working confortably. These drives are not (yet?) sold in Europe. They
>are however used very much in Japan.
>
>2. One can make dvd-rw better by formatting them a couple of times
>before using them for the first time but unless formatting them before
>every time you want to use them they will wear out anyway. That at
>least has been argued in certain newsgroups.
>>
>>The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X video disc I bought back in 2004 still works
>>today for rewites some 3 years later. Bought them for my first
>>recorder which was the Panasonic DMR-E30 which I bought in April of
>>2003. Hardly use DVD-RAM these days as my two latest recorders have
>>hard drives on them which are much easier to play with than messing
>>around with DVD blanks on a recorder with no hard drive.
>>
>Same here.
>
>>I did play around with DVD-RW and DVD+RW but after a few re writes
>>found the media to be a bit unreliable. Mainly use DVD-R with the odd
>>DVD-RAM these days.
>>
>Same here.
>
>>DVD-RAM are like small hard drives with up to 100,000 re writes.
>>I've done a few hundred re writes on the DVD-RAM discs that I have
>>used over the last few years and the media still holds up well today.
>>The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X I bought was from 3 years ago and these
>>haven't missed a beat since.
>>
>Same here :-)
>
>>SalesMart.com.au
>>Perth, Western Australia
>>http://www.salesmart.com.au
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>
>Massimo
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