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| Thread ID: 93307 | 2008-09-11 07:21:00 | Quality of burning media | GeneralKanos (13592) | Press F1 |
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| 704452 | 2008-09-11 12:12:00 | A bit late, but this site (www.digitalfaq.com) has a fairly thorough article on blank dvd media. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 704453 | 2008-09-11 19:19:00 | gary67, that's interesting. I've had repeated troubles burning those 16x DVD-R discs from DSE. What brand of writer are you using? Yes I'm using these as well, my dvd writer is in a branded NEC tower so don't know what make it is. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 704454 | 2008-09-11 19:59:00 | Blank DVD Media Quality Guide www.digitalfaq.com Yes, there are good and bad. Sometimes you can burn at a low or lowest speed and get a good result when burning at fastest speed fails. Get to know what your Burner can and cannot handle. ie. One or my earlier Burners could not burn -rw but could burn +rw after a quick firmware update problem solved. Some of the cheaper DVD's may not as long as a higher quality one storage wise. I know some of my very early cheap CD's are now unreadable after 10-15 years in the cupboard. I recently got a spindle of Imation DVD's. After a few months in the cupboard they were starting to stick together, this was rendering them useless. Imation replaced them luckily, thanks to Ingram. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 704455 | 2008-09-11 22:02:00 | Like others have said, quality depends on your media and your burner. In my experience, Verbatim is quite good (code is MCC04), made by mitsubishi chemicals. Taiyo Yuden make the best quality discs, but they are quite expensive. Verbatim are about half the price, but about 80-90% of the quality. Your burner also has an effect on the quality. Like a previous poster has said, updated firmware may help. Your burner may also just prefer one type over another, eg my burner prefers DVD+R/+RW over -R/-RW. When I get home, I will post images of my quality scans, showing burn speed does not matter with high speed quality media. In fact, quality actually drops when you use a lower speed. This is because apparently the dyes in high speed media are optimised for higher speed burning. I would have thought lower speeds improve quality since the 'pits' are better defined, but evidently not. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 704456 | 2008-09-11 22:57:00 | Yes I'm using these as well, my dvd writer is in a branded NEC tower so don't know what make it is. Thanks anyway. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 704457 | 2008-09-12 08:54:00 | Here are some quality scans of mine at various speeds (both cd and dvd meida are verbatim discs): CD at 8x (www.freeimagehosting.net) CD at 16x (www.freeimagehosting.net) CD at 32x (www.freeimagehosting.net) Clearly, for cds, faster appears to be better. For DVDs, it is not as conclusive; DVD at 2.4x (www.4freeimagehost.com) DVD at 4x (www.4freeimagehost.com) While the amount of data on the dvds are different, compare using the averages. While the 4x has half the amount of PI errors, it has slightly higher PI failures. I think PI failures are worse, but they are only a problem if there are a lot of them in a row. But overall I think these scans are quite good quality burns anyway. NEC for the win :) |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 704458 | 2008-09-13 08:59:00 | A dumb question, but is the file that you are trying to burn (copy) too big for the type of media that you are using? | Zippity (58) | ||
| 704459 | 2008-09-14 05:00:00 | I would have thought it will tell you when the data won't fit the media... Unless you're over burning, but you need to explicitly specify that... |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 704460 | 2008-09-15 02:48:00 | I don't think the files are too big for the DVD. DVDFab pulls the Video_TS files directly from off the DVD then I burn them straight back to a blank DVD so I don't think that's the problem. I was given some Sony DVD's and they work fine so I think it was just a bunch of cheap DVD's that weren't supported. |
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