Posted by DH on 02/04/06 11:24

Smid wrote:
> 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
>

I use the Pioneer 108 with NILs 1.14 FW hack. It now rips at up to 16x and writes,
with full compatibility with all available players and other drives, at up to 16x,
though I tend to keep it down at 8x, using Titanium 8x printable top DVD-Rs.

Unusual nick Smid - used to drive robots by any chance ??

Cheers

DH

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