Success Rate be honest

[Chewy]

What's your percentage of sucess in burning dvd's(single layer),
say over the last year, noobies feel free to throw out coasters made
in your learning curve.
don't count testing

[LT. Columbo]

since i started using quality media AND memorex-none. except for 2 sony's that had scratches right out of the spindle i wanted to burn anyway and see what would happen. they skipped alright. when i first started burning, 70% success rate, used optodisc, princo...yuck. brings back horrible memories

[Chewy]

the 2 sony's would give you a 99 score
no rounding up from 99
100% must be pure

[LT. Columbo]

yeah well i made sure they were smashed good too can't even warranty the bastards, they want me to pay shipping! yeah right!

[NightTran]

when I first start and burn with nero, I lost alot of blanks ( if that you mean by coasters), after I learn how to do rip with dvdd to hard drive, use shrink turn in to iso image and then burn with dvdd and lately imgburn I have not lost at all I mean the one I lost because I try to get to the very edge, one was freeze i guess I could say 98-99 percent with vertibal either R+ or R-, I lost two disc so far after burn to blanks with dvdd or imgburn

[geno888]

I voted 99% because now I use only quality media, and the occasional coasters are due to a bad media in the box (can happen ) or to a strange experiment changing writing strategy on my firmwares .

When I first started to do burnings (with a liteon 811) I was totally noob, and my first 6 discs were all coasters (3 € for each disc ).

After a couple of days I discovered CDFreaks, and from then quality of my burnings was absolutely good, except for a couple of princo and other low quality media (at this time I was a noob trying to learn).

Anyway when I want to do a burning to keep (I repeat, except experiments) I use quality media and set all settings on my burners in optimal way for the media I use, so % of coasters is very very low.

[tigerman8u]

In the past year I haven't had any coasters (learned to use good/compatible media). In the beginning lots of coasters due to non-compatible/cheap media.

[Chewy]

In the past year I haven't had any coasters (learned to use good/compatible media). In the beginning lots of coasters due to non-compatible/cheap media.

what's your burner and media?

[nwg]

I never had a coaster ever and started June 2003. I was lucky to find the best media straight away - Ricoh +R then Ritek -R G04. I only got 25 of the Ricoh's as they were £35 for 25 at the time. I now get 175 Riteks for the same price of the Ricoh's.

[darkbunglex]

I cant handle bad media, it just erks me so i stick with Verbatim DVD-R. They're da best ive found n not too expensive. TDK used to have there disks made at the same factory that verbatim do but they changed to a cheaper one and da disk quality dropped. I still hav cheap spindle around for temp tv recordings tho..

Oh Ello evrybody! This is my first post! yay lol

[darkbunglex]

Oh soz, i voted at da top.. I hav 100% success cept for 3 disks wen i got new burner n was given cheap media and tried to stick data files on em..

[christ93]

I voted 99 since I started using Tayio Yuden. Damn, I wish I had discovered them sooner.

[geno888]

I think that 100% is not an objective value, because there is always the possibility to create a coaster.

A box can contain a bad batch of media (I have a box of 25 RICOHJPNR03 brand Ricoh, about 1/3 of these discs give me very bad results and 3 coasters, but another box of these same discs of the same Ricoh brand and mediacode give me very good results).

Moreover, a power failure (remember: don't burn in stormy days ) during a burning can also create a coaster.

So that's impossible that anyone can obtain a 100% of success.

[soup]

I didn't vote because I have only been doing this since August but I am throwing out the learning curve.One single layer (I am still not sure it wasn't my fault.One dual layer Fuji Dvd+r (I think it was all about layer break).

[Chewy]

Several members have a 100% success rate, as I would if I hadn't bought
them durn clone Yuden's, of course I define coaster as anything below
40-60QS. With my TY's G01,02 and03 out of 205 disks burned I had 205
non-coasters, including several tests overburned at 2x rated speed.
My ritek R04's alto not producing any coasters had several burns in the grey area below 60QS.