Posted by Frank on 08/23/06 16:34

On 23 Aug 2006 06:53:54 -0700, in 'rec.video.production',
in article <Re: Reliability of DVDs>,
geickmei@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

>Frank wrote:
>
>> A client recently gave me a "gift pack" (a spindle of 50) Sony DVD-R
>> discs and they turned out to be TY. Since the package was marked "Made
>> in Japan", I wasn't too surprised, however, but I was pleased.
>>
>> --
>> Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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>
>I have the disc identifier program at home somewhere, but not here at
>work. However, we burned one of the attempts on a Sony disc, and that
>was one of the worst ones.

Sorry to hear about your problem, Gary. Of the spindle of 50 discs, I
burned six in DVD-Video format at 4x. The discs were sent to an
out-of-state client and the word that I got back a few days later was
that all six discs played just fine on a variety of players, both
computer-attached as well as standalone players.

>I am strongly favoring my too fast a bitrate theory, thinking that if
>you let Encore do its thing on Automatic, it will use a VRB that goes
>all the way up to 8, taxing the players lasers and decoders in some
>way. I have just finished re-encoding the whole thing at a more
>reasonable 4 mbit/sec rate, and am testing it on various players now.
>(burned at 4X as well).

It could very well be either a data rate problem or a burn speed
problem, but any data rate up to 7 or 8 Mbps shouldn't cause a
problem.

In the case I related above, since the discs were being send to some
folks 2000 miles away and I wanted to ensure that they wouldn't
experience any playback problems, I took a few extra minutes and
surface checked each disc in IsoBuster before I packed them up for
shipment. I also tried each disc in three or four standalone
(television-attached) DVD players before pronouncing them "okay".

>Gary Eickmeier

Good luck!

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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