Posted by Atropos on 12/31/05 12:21

"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> My first attempts at burning DVDs has been less than stellar. As mentioned
> previously, I sometimes copy a movie for later viewing. Every movie I have
> copied will freeze up somewhere. Some earlier, some later. Until a few
> days ago, my DVD burner was a Sony with the latest firmware.

There's the problem. Sony.

I had a Sony DRU 530A. About 3 out of 10 disks would fail to rerip and
freeze on playback.

I got a Pioneer 107 - problems went away.

Recently I did a trade with someone who is using a Sony. Out of the 14 disks
he sent me, 10 were completely f**ked.

You should have no such problems with your NEC. But you may not be able to
rip your old Sony burned disks.

A quick way to test all your disks is to use DVD Shrink quick analysis.

You need to erase all data in
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DVD Shrink"

Then start putting in your DVDR's, Shrink will do a quick analysis on each
one. If there's a problem with the disk - it'll showup here. If the quick
analysis completes - you're okay.

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