Yeah but the media is the cheapest and the biggest variable, why buy a hundred stack of blank dvds, end up with a coaster and keep byeing new burners till one works?
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Yeah but the media is the cheapest and the biggest variable, why buy a hundred stack of blank dvds, end up with a coaster and keep byeing new burners till one works?
not in australia it isn't expect to pay $4 each for DVDr or $50 for a pack of 25 where you can get a burner for $132Quote:
Originally Posted by Duffman
OMG! And I was bitching about the recent price jump from .25 cents to .32 cents per/disc for TAIYO YUDEN at supermedia. :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adster
If you haven't already got it (or something similar) get DvdInfoPro. You can find out exactly which dye your media uses. If you are having problems with a brand make a note of the dye, than don't buy disks with that dye.
I find that my NEC drive seems to work fine with Ritek G05 based media. I've been using Ridisc Xtreme which are 8x rated but burn fine at 16x. Unfortunately I just got some more Ridisc media, and despite the name they haven't even got Ritek dye. They won't burn at 16x, in fact I just burnt a 2.5GB disk and I don't think it even got above 4x. :angry:
I guess the thing to do is check the quality here when you find a cheap one. I would say that if it isn't listed there don't buy it. If it is listed there, check out different media with the same media code. Watch out for poisoned reviews though, I read one guy complaining about the burning troubles he had, then said the media wouldn't read in 7 players. :blink:
the problem with the liteon could have been most likely fixed with a hacked firmware.You most likely had a huge number of errors at the end of the disc.I think the "omnipatcher tool" solves this issue with force fall back http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=97590 If you still own the burner you may like to have a little fun playing with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adster
thanks sounds interestingQuote:
Originally Posted by accat13
Dont know if you have ever tried it but tygo2 is great. Between me and my brother in law, weve gone though a few thousand w/o a bad burn that wasnt the dvd burner's fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by accat13
ill tell you one brand to NEVER EVER GET!! PRINCO
another interesting thing is the stuff I burned on teh LITE ON wouldnt play on DVD players and wouldnt play on my LITE ON DVD but it will play on Pioneer so I was able to revover some of that what I thought was fucked coasters
Just curious which particular liteon it was.Also if you realized liteon(especially older models) don't particularly like dvd- media .I've burnt a few ty's that were dvd minus.Lets just say they really work great as coasters.The liteon drives also develops a memory of the last three or 4 burns, not that great if the burns were bad(can be cleaned with utilities http://codeguys.rpc1.org/utilities.html )Quote:
Originally Posted by Adster
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Originally Posted by muchspl3
Same, i do with the cheapest i can find and buy in bulk of 200. So far i've had no problems.
It's a better idea to buy a good burner and cheap media, than a cheap burner and expensive media. Also my really cheap media is still working 2 years + on so nothing's degraded yet like some say.