Someone mentioned good media. I just bought an ass load of TDK DVD+Rs at a very good price. Are these any good?
TDK good? Depends who made yours fiddleboy. They got some decent manufacturers and some low quality manufacturers. Hard telling what you get until you open them up. I've got 1 remaining TDK +16x cmag blank disc left. 1 coaster out of the 25 pk. With quality verbatim,ty,Sony- I avg 1 coaster out of over 400 backups. Use dvdidentifier-it's free- to find the MID code of that assload of TDKs,LOL. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd-r_tools/dvd_identifier.cfm If those TDK's ID as: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:CMC MAG-M01-000] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [Not Available] Manufacturer Name : [CMC Magnetics Corp.] Manufacturer ID : [CMC MAG] Media Type ID : [M01] Product Revision : [Not Specified] Blank Disc Capacity : [2,295,104 Sectors = 4.70 GB (4.38 GiB)] Recording Speeds : [1x-2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x , 6x-16x] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If so: You got a big heaping pile of DUNG!!!! LOL Good/quality drives won't have as many issues burning these,but stand alone players will. Pretty much,all the newest internal drives are 16x and 18x.Then you got the dvd-ram and lightscibe drives as well. The slower drives are older models that may have been sitting around,in case you see any on sale. I'm not sure about the externals.I don't pay attention to their latest models. Some of those older drives are still very good. NEC /Pioneer/Lite-on. Those older drives are being phased out with the newer 8x and 16x speed media. It's all about dvd burner's firmware being able to read this faster media. Firmware updates are needed to keep pace. Older drives,then very few firmware updates will be released-making your drive useless,unless you stocked up on the slower 4x and 8x speed media.
