Posted by Massimo on 04/18/07 04:20

Hello,

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:16:36 GMT, sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site
(SalesMart.com.au) wrote:

>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.

1. You have to format them in Fat32 to use them as 'harddiscs'. For
some reason (?) I had to try formatting them under WindowsXP Home
quite a couple of times in order to succeed formatting them in that
format. WindowsXP does not support dvd-ram natively, I had to use a
utility I found on the Pioneer site to be able to use dvd-ram for
video. Windows Vista should give native support for this kind of
media.
Also, dvd-ram media are horribly slow so you will have to buy the
newer 12 x dvd-rams and a drive that can work with these new ram's for
working confortably. These drives are not (yet?) sold in Europe. They
are however used very much in Japan.

2. One can make dvd-rw better by formatting them a couple of times
before using them for the first time but unless formatting them before
every time you want to use them they will wear out anyway. That at
least has been argued in certain newsgroups.
>
>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.
>
Same here.

>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.
>
Same here.

>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.
>
Same here :-)

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