Posted by Smarty on 02/28/07 23:47

rm,

Gene has an extremely likely explanation. If you are not burning dual layer
disks, however, then use the VIDEO_TS folder on your hard disk from one of
these "rain fade" examples, and try playing it directly with your PC, thus
avoiding the step of burning a disk. If the resulting movie looks fine in
the 2nd half, then the burner / blank disks / or your set-top player are
suspect. Given that you have tried different brands of top-notch media from
Verbatim, Sony, and Taiyo Uden, the fault is then most likely in either your
burner or your player, and you can next trying playing the "faulty" disks on
other set-top players as well as on your PC to see if they also look like
"rain fade". By using this logical process of elimination, you should be
able to isolate the problem to one of these causes.

Smarty


"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 2/27/2007, rm posted this:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I've tried 2 different PCs and 3 different programs: DVDFab, DVDXCopy,
>> and DVDShrink. On both PCs and all 3 programs I get the same result.
>> The first half of the movie looks great. But then somewhere after 1/2
>> way through, it blurs like it has rain fade on a satellite dish - best
>> way I can describe it. I've used Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, Sony, and one
>> other (can't remember right now).
>>
>> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I have no idea what rain fade is or looks like, but I wonder if you are
> burning to single layer or dual layer disks.
>
> If so, perhaps there is a problem in the way the burners or the disks deal
> with the second layer.
>
> The above is a WAG (I bet that's obvious :-) ).
>
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