Posted by Bill Vermillion on 11/09/06 18:05

In article <5jlfj2hcbged57fuvms4p4aher547pailv@4ax.com>,
E. Barry Bruyea <damnsummerhas gone@rural.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:57:20 GMT, Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:56:44 GMT, Robert Peirce
>><bob@peirce-family.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>This may have been covered before. If so, I missed it. Anyhow, I have
>>>some shows saved on Tivo that I want to put on DVD.
>>>
>>>About how many times do you find you can write to a R/W DVD before you
>>>start to get errors? With plain DVDs under $0.30, a R/W DVD is not very
>>>economical unless you can beat that. OTOH, after a while you will start
>>>to get unrecoverable failures. I would rather pitch them before that,
>>>but I don't want to do it too soon. I would hate to write a program to
>>>DVD and find I can't recover it. It wouldn't really cost me that much
>>>actual time. But it would be a royal pain to have to do it again.
>>>
>>>Also, do you have any favorite R/W DVDs I should consider? I imagine
>>>some are better than others on a write/dollar basis.
>>
>>The quality of DVD brands vary, so if you value your data buy the best
>>you can find. I buy Yaiyo Yuden and have far fewer errors than other
>>brands. How many times you can re-write to a R/W depends on several
>>factors, but I have heard 1000 re-writes is close to the limit. I
>>wonder how anyone can keep track of that unless you are doing
>>something like a re-write once a day. Another good question is how
>>long can I expect a write-once DVD to reliably keep data? Ten years?
>>If you are looking for cheap high-capacity storage, it is hard to beat
>>tape.
>
>
>I have generally been buying DVD+RW's on the cheap for the past couple
>of years. We tend not to watch a lot of 'live' T.V. and record the
>stuff we really want to watch at our convenience. I was finding that
>after a while, I was getting 'Freezes' quite frequently. Sometimes
>you get by them, other times, that was it. In March I bought a five
>pack of Sony Accucore DVD+RW's to use for recording; out of curiosity,
>I put labels on the case with numbers printed from 1-50 and ticked off
>every time they were used. I got a high of 31 and a low of 25.
>Interesting enough, I called Sony and after a couple of discussions
>and one call back, I was told that 'that sounds just about right' in
>regards usage. I don't know if there are brands that will last
>longer, but at today's prices, it probably isn't worth it pay much of
>a premium.

I user RWs in a DVR that does not have an HD. Then for the ones
I want to save I copy them out, use TDA to make menus, etc., and
burn to a permanent disk.

I had some optodisk ?? - that really only liked about 4 or 5
rewrites. So I figure it cost me 5-10 cents more per final disk
including, but I had decent menus and navigation by doing it that
way. I don't know the maximum number I've gotten but a few cents
doesn't compare to my time making the final disk :-)

Bill


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