Post your DISC quality scans here 2

wow its been a long time thread is dead.
i see a MCC 003 up there those things are about extinct along with the reliable MCC004's its a shame verbs have fell so far.

ok question. every optaric drive i have is now official dead. all 5 of them that i have had are toast. but the trusty lite-ons(true lite-ons) are still kicking.
i havent looke at any drives in a while. is there any good ones out there that are worthy????

 

Wow Rob. 5 Optiarcs dead? I have at least that many that have seen, um... A lot of discs. I have 2 7200A's. They're the oldest ones. Burning as good(if not better) as day one. If I were in the market right now, I'd be looking very closely at the 7260 drives. I have one. It's my newest least used drive. It's an excellent high speed drive. Never a coaster. It performs as good or better than the drives before it. As long as a drive has an NEC chip, I'm happy. I love NEC's drives. It's not your drive $ony, it's NEC's...

I'm uncertain of the 7280 drives.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118067
If I were in the market though, 19.99 with free shipping is VERY tempting. But I'm actually in a transition mode. I'm moving further and further away from DVD's, and embracing Blu-Ray

Trusty Lite-ons? I lol'd. I guess you got lucky. over half of my lite-ons died. I have a BD IHES108, that's still kicking, but it may ignore read errors. And I have a LH20A1S I use for scanning. I no longer rip with it. My 7200S has proven to be be one of the best readers I've had. I used to have a $ony DRU820 that was a freak of a reader too. It's a toss up which one has been better. The 7200S has seen more discs, so I guess it's the champ.

 

ive had 7200A&S a7220-72240and the last to die was the 7260S.
all of my lite-ons(true liteons) but 2 are still running in one machine or another.
of the 2 the only reason it isnt working is because i broke the little plastic clip that the sata cable plugs into. and that was my favorite drive of all time. LH-18A1P and LH-18A1S and then the LH-20A1S love those drives.
as long as it has the mediatec chip in it im a happy camper...lol
haven't had a BR Drive yet. still don't see a need in it for myself.
i do agree with ya my 7200S did see alot of disc it was the second one i ever had and lasted the longest. of any of the 5 different ones.

 

You're right Rob, it has been a while

Verbatim 6X BD-R(VERBAT-IMe-000) burned at 4X via LG WH10LS30. Imgburn reports a max speed of 10X. Given the scan here, I wouldn't hesitate to burn at 6X. I just may for testing purposes. Better defragment my hard drives first though. 6x and beyond is pretty high speed burning
As you can see, it smokes the Digistor CMC MAG disc.

 

And now one burned at 6X. Not too bad

 

Did a scan just for funzies..

CMC.MAG.AM3


Only 3GB I know but grabbed the closest thing to the burner/reader at the time.

 

Here's another scan of a Verbatim BD-R NON LTH disc. Burned at 4X. I scanned it because there is a noticeable ring in the recording dye. I've seen them on Dvd-R's from time to time. Usually there's a discernible difference in read/burn quality. I'm not seeing much if any difference here. It had me a bit concerned, because I deleted the files directly after the burn. But, should be a good backup

 

Ritek BD-R burned at 2X. I burned the ISO, and then had imgburn compare the ISO data to the burned disc. It passed And then I ran a quality scan. It exceeded my expectations. I don't believe I'll go beyond 2X on the remaining discs though. Thankfully only 3 or 4. I'd really like to come back to this disc in say 5 yrs, and see how it does. Given I store my discs very good, the surface should be in near perfect shape. The dye remains to be seen

 

anyone know anyhting about blu-ray players? how is this one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151222

 

Rob,

I think the Asus would be a better drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135247

It has a much lower failure rate. Costs a few bucks less too!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

My LG drive has been very good. WH10LS30. My Lite-on iHES108 has been O-K. It's ignored read errors a few times, but when a disc is in reasonable condition, it does a good job. I mainly got the lite-on for scanning purposes. Though I rip with it every now and again. No read errors in quite some time. I believe it needed a good break-in. I've heard the pioneers are good burners. But I've read about quite a few quitting prematurely. The LG's seem to be pretty good. Mine certainly is My LG has seen a couple hundred discs. It still acts like new.

 

yea im looking for a player just so i can rip blu ray and then convert them, not any where interested in burning blu-ray way to costly and the disc are yet to prove reliable down the road.

 

Verbatims look good(of course). The only questionable media at the moment, is Ritek, and LTH(organic) dyes. I've gotten good buys on Verbs. Not much more than a dual layer verbatim dvd. The prices are dropping... THankfully!

 

I can go along with Omega I have 2 of the LGs with a third I just ordered from the Egg for $59.00.Using BD rebuilder putting on Blue Ray discks and DVD Tys.

 

so your just ripping the movie from the blue-ray disc and then burning to some nice TY's? thats what im interested in doing once i get my dream machine built...lol

 

YOu can convert Blu ray to dual layer dvds and have them look generally indistinguishable from the bluray. Depends on the situation/bitrate. I prefer BD-25 backups. I plan on a projector later. The less artifacting, the better!

 

Yes for movie only on rebuilder you can put on dvd 5 or double layer or blue ray discs. I put Public Enemy and American Gangster Movie only on my beloved Tys.I took the movie The help and did a full disc backup on a Verb +r DVD5 just to compare unless your viewing on a 55" screen the difference was virtually none. Chris

 

is this the LG blu-ray player your talking about?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136232

the reviews im reading on these blu-ray player/burners is that it wont play plu ray disc unless there is a third party program? whats up with that?

 

Rob,

It means you still have to own or buy BluRay software to play or burn BD Disks!

Best,
Russ

 

I use both Nero [bought] and Power DVD 9[free] to watch on the computer.Also yes this is the burner.I should add both burners despite being oem came with cables and Power dvd software.Chris