Confused on Media Quality whats what?

[blutach]

It's not scanning - there's always PIs and even if, by some miracle, there isn't, there's always jitter.

Regards

[photo_angel2004]

please read my above post or all your scan will be the same

I uploaded the wrong picture sorry about that it is changed now.

[NightTran]

not all burner is support scanning I guess yours is not I would love to have one scan like that , only benq, lighton and nec

[photo_angel2004]

so basically with out one of those burners I may never know what the quality is.

Does any one know what catagory that Disc ID would be though ?

[BR7]

I am sure you have, but just to make sure Have you looked at blutachs tut

[jm1647]

All of my disc were burned at 2X but in that test I have an option for 8X or 1X no 4X option.


in the ring it says: GG000106

What does that mean?

A code is normally put on all geniune TY's near the hub. If you bought them at a reputable store they are TY's.

@BR7 - I gotta put these Red Dog's down.....looking a blu's tut....I don't know if he has a webcam Ah !!!

[photo_angel2004]

what does this mean?

[NightTran]

you should burn at 8x instead of 2 x and check again, the more smooth the bettter, burst rate at 20 you can only burn up to 12 x and not 16x

[photo_angel2004]

What does this mean:

[PurpleDemon]

Please help explain the graphs

Yes I'm still learning, so forgive. I see the graphs and think I know how to run the scans.
What am I really looking for generally?
What are PI, and Jitters?
How important is the score?
If infomation is the forum, can you link? I searched, couldn't find my answers. I did figure out that the TDK's were not near as good as the Verb's I bought. Any other critique would be helpful to learning.
Thanks

[Chewy]

PA,
the GG code means you got authetic TY, now your burner isn't quite as good as the media and any testing you do with it may be showing read or burn errors not having anything to do with the quality of the media.
4x would be the lowest speed I would burn at tho. For any test or burn don't multitask at all.
sqiggles, dips in read/transfer graphs are not good and indicate problems!
I would guess a new burner sometime soon, or have you checked your voltages from the power supply?
Take a disk and use cdspeed to creat a data disk and post that graph.

note: someone needs to make a sticky on how to use cdspeed

[photo_angel2004]

I thought that buring at a lower speed was better or is that only for lower speed burners?

[Chewy]

lower speed is a relative term, and has changed with new hardware.
4x used to be max speed, now we have 16x burners, I find 4-8x to be the sweet spot for most newer burners, some do better at 8-12x, there are no absolutes here. Just outdated gross generalizations.

just experiment with different burn speeds on different media and then do a transfer test, whatever looks smoothest is what I would go for

proof is in the pudding

[copyless]

I have a question after reading the post by Chewy. I used to always burn with Imgbrn set at max, which would eventually generate speeds from 8-10x. After having the media problem, but before I had come to the conclusion that is was definitely a media problem, I locked the speed to 4x in Imgbrn. Do you think I should go back to the max setting, or should I burn using 4x then max and check the quality with DVD/CD speed? And if so what is actually the best information to burn and do the test? Thank you for any help. As you know I am new to this, but learning as much as I can is my goal, and also something I love to do. Again thank you.

[photo_angel2004]

PA,
the GG code means you got authetic TY, now your burner isn't quite as good as the media and any testing you do with it may be showing read or burn errors not having anything to do with the quality of the media.
4x would be the lowest speed I would burn at tho. For any test or burn don't multitask at all.
sqiggles, dips in read/transfer graphs are not good and indicate problems!
I would guess a new burner sometime soon, or have you checked your voltages from the power supply?
Take a disk and use cdspeed to creat a data disk and post that graph.

note: someone needs to make a sticky on how to use cdspeed

I am going to get a Nec and throw this burner on my other pc, thanks for all the input to every one that replied.