Posted by SalesMart.com.au on 04/17/07 13:16

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:45:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:

>In article <XMNUh.83538$aG1.4486@pd7urf3no>,
>Stuart Miller <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>><edenesiuk@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
>>news:1176680902.255879.254670@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Mar 30, 2:49 pm, Ron <ron_j_ma...@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi! .....
>>>> My "Pioneer" 'DVR-310' DVD Recorder accepts
>>>
>>> I expect in a year I will have to buy a DVD recorder because VCRs are
>>> being phased out. I use my V. continuously and wonder if the
>>> recorder discs are as cheap to use/re-use daily. The tapes for V
>>> are reusable for a long time is this true of D discs.
>>>
>>I have seen conflicting data on this. Some people have expereinced failures
>>after as few as 10 write/erase cycles. There are posts about this in the
>>various dvd newsgroups.
>>
>>Also, some people have experienced significant signal loss on rewriteabe
>>dvd's after month or years, so this apparently should not be considered a
>>permanant media.
>>
>>Your mileage may vary.....
>>
>>Stuart
>
>The more expensive DVD-RAM disks - which would be fine if he's
>going to use them over and over - are good for thousands of
>write/erase cycles. They act more like small hard-drives and can
>actually be used as re-writeable filesystems for OSes that
>support it.

The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X video disc I bought back in 2004 still works
today for rewites some 3 years later. Bought them for my first
recorder which was the Panasonic DMR-E30 which I bought in April of
2003. Hardly use DVD-RAM these days as my two latest recorders have
hard drives on them which are much easier to play with than messing
around with DVD blanks on a recorder with no hard drive.

I did play around with DVD-RW and DVD+RW but after a few re writes
found the media to be a bit unreliable. Mainly use DVD-R with the odd
DVD-RAM these days.

DVD-RAM are like small hard drives with up to 100,000 re writes.
I've done a few hundred re writes on the DVD-RAM discs that I have
used over the last few years and the media still holds up well today.
The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X I bought was from 3 years ago and these
haven't missed a beat since.

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