It is a Sanyo DWM-3500U one of those vhs/dvd combo things which I will never buy a combo deal again after what I have read about them..it is connected to my Direct TV receiver and I still can't figure out how to copy tv shows to my vhs..another challenge lol.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-132-344&depa=0 your player will play the + format also try these, i have about 400 hundred of these and they all burn perfect with kprobe scans almost as good as my Taiyo Yuden discs i definitely recommend them!
what do you mean by "also"? Do you mean that it will play +R's because it will not play -R's. I bought a 3pk maxell dvd+r's while I was at Wally World today, and it the pkg. read "MADE IN JAPAN". I put one of the discs in dvd identifier and it had a reference to adip failing method 1 and being found on method 2. I have no idea first what adip is and secondly, is this a concern for me? Here 's what the identifier said about this disc which goes back to what Saugmon was saying about the 3 different makers of maxell... Well here is the identifier and what it had to say...let me know about the adip thing and its reference to method 1 vs. method 2 Thanks!!!! Manufacturer Name: Hitachi Maxell LTD. Manufacturer ID: Maxell Media Type ID: 002 Product Revision: Not Specified Blank Disc capacity: Not supported by method 2 Recording Speeds: 1x 2.4x, 4x, 6x-8x (Method 2 might not always detect all speeds) Status DVD+R/+RW Medium Detected. Starting Identification... [15:13:31] ** Initiating ADIP Retrieval Method 1 (Original ADIP) [15:13:31] ADIP Read M1 Failed : Illegal request - Invalid field in CDB [05/24/00] [15:13:31] ADIP Read Method 1 Not Supported ; A Firmware Upgrade Is Recommended [15:13:31] ** Initiating ADIP Retrieval Method 2 (Copy Of ADIP) [15:13:31] ADIP Read Method 2 Completed Without Errors [15:13:31] Disc Identification Completed Successfully Drive Capabilities ** INFO : Write Capabilities = DVD+RW DVD+R ** INFO : Write Capabilities = DVD-RW DVD-R ** INFO : Disc = [DVD+R:MAXELL-002-000] ** INFO : An Empty Writable Disc Is Recommended For Accurate Results ** INFO : Write Speeds (Supported By This Drive On This Disc) Listed Below ** INFO : GET PERFORMANCE Write Speed Descriptor(s) Descriptor #1 = 3324 KBPS ( 2.40x) - [CLV/Non-Pure CAV] ** INFO : MODE SENSE Write Speed Descriptor(s) [Legacy Command] ** INFO : MODE SENSE Is Obsolete And Not Properly Supported By Some Drives Descriptor #1 = 0 KBPS ( 0.00x) - [CLV/Non-Pure CAV] - [Invalid Entry] ** WARNING : Drive May Have Returned Incorrect Descriptors 'Media Block Code' ** WARNING : Format 11h (Method 1) Is Recommended ADIP Retrieval Method ** WARNING : Format 00h (Method 2) Data Might Contain Drive Modified Values ** WARNING : Format 00h Might Not Return The Entire 'Media Code'-Block ** INFO : Hex Dump Of 'Media Code'-Block Listed Below ** INFO : 4-Byte Header Preceding 'Media Code'-Block Discarded ** INFO : Format 00h (Method 2) - Physical Information (Copy Of ADIP) 0000 : a1 0f 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3f 00 00 00 00 .........&.?.... 0010 : 00 00 03 4d 41 58 45 4c 4c 00 00 30 30 32 00 38 ...MAXELL..002.8 0020 : 23 54 37 12 02 42 71 02 8c 68 15 15 0b 0b 08 08 #T7..Bq..h...... 0030 : 01 19 1b 0c 0c 0c 0d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0040 : 01 00 38 38 02 2a 68 18 05 2e 23 10 04 1e 1d 01 ..88.*h...#..... 0050 : 00 00 02 2a 68 18 05 2e 23 10 04 1e 1d 01 00 00 ...*h...#....... 0060 : 02 00 54 70 02 35 67 56 20 14 09 08 01 20 00 00 ..Tp.5gV .... .. 0070 : 00 00 02 46 61 58 20 12 0a 09 01 20 00 00 00 2e ...FaX .... .... 0080 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0090 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00a0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00b0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00c0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00d0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00e0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00f0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0100 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0110 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0120 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Hey max, that 3 pack you picked up are very good. I would burn them all day long.I have yet to find those hitachi's. I keep getting ricohjpn-01 on all the maxell + format discs. Give em a shot,burn at 4x and see if your sony will play them. It's always handy to keep both foramats of media around.
Thanks Saug, I wish I knew what you were looking at that told you they were ok LOL. So don't worry about the adip,method 1, or 2 thing? I just got finished burning "Twisted". I don't know if it is something I have done wrong or what, I followed BBMAYO's guide to the tee just like have with the other burns. I am still using my Maxell dvd-r's. When it was done, and I closed out of decrytper, my reader/writer automatically started playing the burned disc like it always does. When I put it in my dvdrom (Like I always do...) it didn't auto play. I started up WinDvd and waited for it to find the movie. Nothing, so I clicked on play with Windvd and nothing. When I went to my computer, the d: drive showed no disc. Any ideas? I never check the originals to see if they are DVD5 or 9's. I just do what the guide tells me. Could it be that this Twisted was a 5 and I shrunk it? I am stumped.
they work fine for me at 8x newbee, 90% of this and every other forum I'm a member of will tell you that faster burn speeds increase the chance of errors dramtically. The difference between 8x and 4x is about 5-10 minutes. Is it really worth that amt. of time to take a chance on a coaster? I can't count the people I have helped simply by lowering their burn speeds. Not to mention different burners react differently with different software and media. So what may work for you may not work for many of the others. A good rule of thumb is to stick with 4x or less on movies and 1x on games.
Hiya Bigorange, were you replying back to neewbie's post? I always burn at 4x. Anywho...any response to my last post on page 1? I would really like to know what happened. Thanks!
I take it that dvd-rom must be your laptop. It must not like the dash format, try one of those +r's you picked up.I have a lot better luck playing the +. I have not backed up twisted so I can't tell you if it is dvd-5 or dvd-9.I very rarely use dvd decrypter.Dvd shrink and nero do 95% of my backups. Those larger movies have to be compressed anyways so I stick with those 2 programs and anydvd. My main pc may have a fried motherboard so I am on my backup 598 mhz celeron with 256 mbs ram and using my old khypermedia +8x burner,+ only burn. There is one standalone player in the bedroom that will not play any + backup disc off of this burner.It still won't play it using it in this pc."no disc inserted error". That player just can't read this particular burn for some reason. I can re-burn that k-h backup disc onto my benq on the fly and that bedroom player will play it perfect,same media,same 4x burnspeed,only difference was a re-rip with another burner.It even plays those maxell's -4x great from my benq.Just variations between lasers is probably the issue even though it was ticked to burn as dvd-rom in nero.
No, this is my regular dvd-rom, I tried these discs on the laptop and it wouldn't read there either. My puter dvd rom is a hitachi GD-5000. I was not having any problems with the previous burns. My Lite-on rw plays these discs on my puter but not on the dvd-rom. I tried playing a disc I burned last week that did read in the dvd-rom and now they won't read either but it did read ok in the laptop. My laptop does not read the + format only -. I guess I am wondering why all of a sudden this is happening. Is my dvdrom going to hell on me? Is it something with dvd decrypter not ripping them properly or burning them???
