Success Rate be honest

[bill7621]

I've had five coasters, all my fault. Not the media or the burners. Set them up for the burn wrong.

[TNT]

It also depends on your definition of success. . .

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=58694

In the past year for SL's, 100%

[Chewy]

For this group a better definition(one that would show more revealing results) might have been, any disk you didn't trust enough to be your backup
of a favorite movie.

[TNT]

Chewy, I know you're adamant about having your backup's last for years, but I'm OK with them lasting for a couple of years. I will watch the back-ups and re-back up if and when necessary. Besides, by the time my back-ups start to rot, DVD will probably be obsolete anyway. Do you watch your originals or your back-ups? I watch my backups for a few reasons. 1) If my daughter puts finger prints on them, I don't care. 2) I don't like to push 10 buttons before watching the movie and 3) I love not having a layer break.

[jmet]

I haven't had a coaster in quite some time! Like almost 2 years ago. (Well, maybe 1 when the electricity went out while I was burning. lol)

[LT. Columbo]

i recall my power going out too this sumer twice. luckily i wasn't burning when this happened, i feel like demanding a reduction on my power bill though!

[Chewy]

TNT,
Well I haven't been burning dvd's that long, first burner was a Pioneer
4x dash R only. I bought some real crap for media, some with no mid code.
A lot of the originals were badly damaged, I became an expert at repair and extraction of digital data.
Some of my originals have never seen a standalone player.
I detest menus, only watch flat dvd's. I would rather not have to repeat
the backup process. The latest kung fu series(3) I bought off Amazon
was 4 dvd-18? flipper disks, took forever to back them up to 8 disks.
At my age, if they last 10-15 yrs that will be fine.
Obsolete, NEVER! Shudder!

[TNT]

Yeah, I have a feeling Blue Ray may not catch on just as DVD-A and SACD aren't.

[sonic_emperor]

since ive started to use dvdshrink i really hadnt any problems,i used ritek dvds,i will not count divx in...so 99%,as someone said,100% must be pure,and i havent tested my burnt dvds on all the players .that when talking about video dvds,i had some problems with 2 data dvds i burnt recently...out of 10 - thats 80%
combining values....about 90% overall

[jm1647]

Maybe I have been lucky with my burner/media combinations and I also check out the rips before burning alot.

[NightTran]

Maybe I have been lucky with my burner/media combinations and I also check out the rips before burning alot.

How do you do it?

[Merovingian]

Not one duffer in several hundred TY -R and +R's burned with Nero on NEC 2510 and BenQ 1620.

RW's well, recently that's a whole other story.....