Hmmm...in the past Ive had really good luck w/ Ridata DL media but this last 25 pk. I had 4 costers- other then that all three have done very well for me on what ever I thrown at it, except the waffel-but then again I was only TY, verbs and sony MIJ or fuji MIJ and Ridata/Riteks
Hmmm...in the past Ive had really good luck w/ Ridata DL media but this last 25 pk. I had 4 costers- other then that all three have done very well for me on what ever I thrown at it, except the waffel-but then again I use only TY, verbs and sony MIJ or fuji MIJ and Ridata/Riteks
I have bought and used the Ty hub printable +r valueline from Meritline and have had genuine Ty results no coasters and flawless as expected. I for one if it says Ty Value or Premium I have yet to see any problems and will use the Valueline unless a deal pops up on the premium, they have the -R value line on sale right now,but I'm a +r convert. Chris http://www.meritline.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-media.html
I use both 16 & 8x my one plextor older model loves the 8x and the other plextor ,benq and Lg get whatever I grab at the time.Speed on the burn doesn't mean anything to me as long as the quality is there.I figure when I run a movie through rebuilder i'm looking at 3 to 4 hours so whats 10 or 20 minutes more burn time.i have yet to have a high scan at 16x and most of the burns are at 8x or 12x depending on which burner except the old Plextor likes a 4x burn.The movies haven't been great lately and I save the Tys for the good ones and switch hit with the Verbs I scarfed up just before Christmas last year.Hoping the same or better deals come out this year. Chris
can you exlpain this a little. all i know is the 8x means the speed it can be burn at? what else comes into play?
I'm also a +R convert, mainly because all my burners booktype and I've heard that's the best way to insure compatability. Even so, I still have some -R 8x Verbs and TYs around. Personally, I think i achieve better results with the +Rs but that might be because I use them alot more than the -Rs.
i burn the TYGO2s (8x) at 8x and sometimes 6x the TYGO3s (16x) i burn at 8x also some burn them at 12x but i don't recommed that. if you have the TYGO3s (16x) make sure you have up to date firmware for your drive/burner to support them. quality wise ( TYGO2 vs TYGO3) there equal.
I'm out of my league here, hopefully aabbccdd can explain or someone else, but I've had better results with the 16x media than the 8x (I've mainly got Litey 20x dirves) which is why I prefer the 16x media.
I'd say it's a pretty close call from my experience between -R & +R but compatibility and maybe in my own little world I think the +R booked are a little bit sharper. Correct me if I'm wrong and if it's alphabet i want the correction by Adriana LOL Chris
hobbit i booktype all my +r also. but lately the +r price are a little higher than -r. my brother only uses -r.. i guess if you have a newer stand alone player it really wont matter.. i have an older one that is fussy and a new one that plays everything i put in it. the other crazy thing is that none of my boxes are check for booktyping. but the log alway says it is booktyped. i use shrink,nero, or just recode sometimes. i gave up on try to figure out how there where getting changed.
@born2ride, I think Shrink and Recode have an override setting for booktyping incase it isn't set in your burner's firmware. Alot depends on your burners. What do you have???
i must of missed it somewhere but you burn the 8x ones at 8x and the 16x at half speed. why not at 16x? have you had play back issues over 8x? i have always burt a half the disc speed. never really played around with faster ones..
Cost-wise between the -Rs & the +Rs I think might be because the rest of the world has caught up or passed the US in usage. Most of the rest of the world use mainly the -R format.
Recorder: <HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N>Version: B109 - HA 1 TA 1 - 7.8.5.0 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 Drive buffer : 2048kB Bus Type : via Inquiry data (1) -> ATAPI, detected: ? Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1 Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder === Scsi-Device-Map === DiskPeripheral : SAMSUNG SP2504C iaStor Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On CdRomPeripheral : SONY CDRWDVD CRX310S iaStor Port 0 ID 1 DMA: Off CdRomPeripheral : HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N iaStor Port 0 ID 2 DMA: Off === CDRom-Device-Map === SONY CDRWDVD CRX310S D: CDRom0 HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N E: CDRom1 =======================
Hopefully those are SATA drives or connected via a RAID otherwise you might have problems. (Haven't checked I don't immediately recognize them).
I've seen the quality go down going above 8x except for the Lg on the printable Verbs 16x at 12x but even then it's a hit or miss 8x comes out the best for me no matter which burner or media and the difference between burn times isn't worth it to me. The old Plextor just likes to scoot along at 4x and thats the only reason i buy the 8x, tillif and when it ever dies.Chris
yes they are... you see the dma is off yes? i believe the main drive i use for burn is and Hitach lg which does not support booktyping . but in nero disc id there are dvd-rom
Yep, You have the most current firware that I can find. I looks like your drive is an OEM for Dell. I feel sorry for you. I hate Dell. I've hated Dell since I found out that they special order their motherboards and power supplies and ahve a power lead on the standard connection switched. If you don't have their power supply(i.e., get an industry standard one off the shelf), you'll fry the motherboard. My brother has one and had to go back to Dell for a replacement floppy drive. Cost him $35 US instead of a generic for $10.
