Posted by Jaszmin on 11/29/05 11:52

Why did you erase them that many times yuh
dickmouth? I've seen no problems with using
them over and over, but the dvds are an even
worse medium for durability than VHS.

Mike Rice


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:36:51 -0400, "Colon Terminus"
<Colon_Terminus@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Uhm ... Bob;
>
>I've had several DVD+RW discs wear out in as few as 12 erase/rewrite cycles.
>
>"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
>news:434ea3b6.76436328@news-server.houston.rr.com...
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:47:10 -0400, "BigJIm" <woody10277@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> >you cant keep using the rw over and over it will wear out
>>
>> Just what you would expect to read from a hotmail top-poster.
>>
>> Don't listen to him. You can erase a DVD +RW a thousand times.
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>> You will wear the DVDR out before you wear out 5 DVD +RW discs.
>>
>>
>> >"AtomicBob" <robert.westbrook@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1129207795.701253.316720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> >>I have a set-top DVD recorder (Cyberhome DVR-1600) that once in awhile,
>> >> when hitting stop at the end of a recording, fails to finish the file
>> >> and declares the disk (DVD+RW in this case) to be no good.
>> >>
>> >> This happened to a TV episode I have wanted to capture for a long time
>> >> (stupid of me to not concurrently VCR it, I know). The 1600 recorded
>> >> the whole 2 hours (in a 3-hour quality mode), but when I hit Stop maybe
>> >> 5 minutes after the show was over (I like some padding), the recorder
>> >> made some drive access noises and then declared the recroding a
>> >> failure. But when you look at the disc, you can "see" where the data
>> >> was written, and this makes me think that somehow, with the right
>> >> tools, the .VOB file might be somehow recoverable. When I put the disc
>> >> into my external DVD writer on the computer, it sees nothing, no matter
>> >> whether I hook it up to a windows or MacOS machine. But then I haven't
>> >> tried any particular file-recovery tools on it.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not gonna erase the DVD+RW until I have exhausted all avenues.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas if this is possible, and if so, what's the best tool to use?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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