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General frustration with DVD Media - any answers?
Hi all
Over the past couple of years I've experienced so many probelms with DVD media that I'm on the point of concluding that it's just unreliable and not worth the hassle.
I'm wondering if anyone can give me any pointers as to where I'm going wrong?
To start off with, i was burning movies (i.e. backups) and my own DV camera stuff, but I realise now I had chosen poor quality media. Many skipped, many wouldn't read at all in PC DVD drive etc. I had master copies of the most important stuff but lost some due to reading problems.
I then read up on this. Guides such as the one on nomorecoasters.com pointed me to better quality media. So i spent money on good quality Verbatim Taiyo Yuden disks, rated very highly, and much more expensive.
I spent money and also a great deal of time and effort getting the other discs to read bit by bit in various drives, eventually being able to retrieve data from most of them. it had taken many hours to retrieve them.
After this effort (6-8 months ago) i then thought I'd have few if any more problems.
I was wrong.
Here are my symptoms:
I have two DVD burning drives on my PC : one is an LG GSA4167B (This has been put in SINCE the first lot of problems)
the other is an NEC ND2510A, and has been in since day 1.
The main PC has also been changed i.e. there a very few constants in these problems.
My expereinces are:
DVDs seem to burn OK and start off readable. I always check them by putting them in DVD player and skipping through each chapter. Also check they are readable in PC drive.
However :
when I go to use them (this will not always be straight away, may be weeks or months til i want to watch again), the first half-hour or so of a movie seems to play OK, then starts freezing and skipping. Cleaning the drive doesn't help. The disk itself will have become very hot (I presume due to trying to read again and again). This is NOT confined to one DVD player, in fact I usually try them on several. My main one is a SumVision but we also have an older Samsung and a newer Mustek player which is also DivX.
When the DVD won't play it then seems to die forever. I can't read it in a PC ('cannot read from source file or disk' OR 'cyclic redundancy error') and next try in a DVD player it seems to jump sooner than it did before (i.e. it's got worse).
Extreemly frustrating as I've probably lost a lot of my collection and the home movie stuff will have to be recreated again from the original DV tapes. I'm glad i didn't really solely on the DVD copy.
So... my summary is DVD media is far worse than VHS tape or CD!
Can anyone help with what's going wrong?
Thanks
Over the past couple of years I've experienced so many probelms with DVD media that I'm on the point of concluding that it's just unreliable and not worth the hassle.
I'm wondering if anyone can give me any pointers as to where I'm going wrong?
To start off with, i was burning movies (i.e. backups) and my own DV camera stuff, but I realise now I had chosen poor quality media. Many skipped, many wouldn't read at all in PC DVD drive etc. I had master copies of the most important stuff but lost some due to reading problems.
I then read up on this. Guides such as the one on nomorecoasters.com pointed me to better quality media. So i spent money on good quality Verbatim Taiyo Yuden disks, rated very highly, and much more expensive.
I spent money and also a great deal of time and effort getting the other discs to read bit by bit in various drives, eventually being able to retrieve data from most of them. it had taken many hours to retrieve them.
After this effort (6-8 months ago) i then thought I'd have few if any more problems.
I was wrong.
Here are my symptoms:
I have two DVD burning drives on my PC : one is an LG GSA4167B (This has been put in SINCE the first lot of problems)
the other is an NEC ND2510A, and has been in since day 1.
The main PC has also been changed i.e. there a very few constants in these problems.
My expereinces are:
DVDs seem to burn OK and start off readable. I always check them by putting them in DVD player and skipping through each chapter. Also check they are readable in PC drive.
However :
when I go to use them (this will not always be straight away, may be weeks or months til i want to watch again), the first half-hour or so of a movie seems to play OK, then starts freezing and skipping. Cleaning the drive doesn't help. The disk itself will have become very hot (I presume due to trying to read again and again). This is NOT confined to one DVD player, in fact I usually try them on several. My main one is a SumVision but we also have an older Samsung and a newer Mustek player which is also DivX.
When the DVD won't play it then seems to die forever. I can't read it in a PC ('cannot read from source file or disk' OR 'cyclic redundancy error') and next try in a DVD player it seems to jump sooner than it did before (i.e. it's got worse).
Extreemly frustrating as I've probably lost a lot of my collection and the home movie stuff will have to be recreated again from the original DV tapes. I'm glad i didn't really solely on the DVD copy.
So... my summary is DVD media is far worse than VHS tape or CD!
Can anyone help with what's going wrong?
Thanks
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