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Author Topic: Question On DVD Burners Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-16-2004 01:56 AM                     Mark and the rest of you fellows, I thought I would try an experiment with this DVD burning thing. One of my DVD's was starting to show DVD Rot, so I wanted to make a backup copy. I just did that, and it turned out, as far as I can tell, perfect! I used DVD Xcopy by Studio 1-2-3, with a HP DVD300i writer. I also used the Hewlett-Packard HP DVD+R disk. Those disks were about $1.40 a pop, and I am sure you can find them at a better price, but at least they have a 5 year warrenty on them. I wonder if the reason some of you guys had your progream crash was because the DVD disk player was set for "autoplay" like my WINDVD player was. They tangled rear ends with each other and caused the computer to lock up. So I went through the back door, made sure the correct drive was selected for the Xcopy Program, and then really backdoored it. I stuffed the disk in the drive, let the computer and WINDVD find it. When it did, I promptly cancelled it. At that time, I brought up Xcopy, and it found the disk by itself. When the big green button lit, I started the process. About 30 minutes later, it asked for the media and I stuffed it in the drive. About 35 minutes later, the end result was perfect. I am playing the disk right now on the other screen, glitch free with AOL and FT multitasking on modem dial-up with Mcafee running in the background. That's asking alot to be asking for a whimpy 933 mhz machine, but I am very pleased with how nice it runs. (Windows 2000 Pro Platform) Mark, when you get into what you want to do, just get a leading brand DVD+R disk and you should be very happy with what you produce.  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-16-2004 02:22 AM                     If your dvd player supports +R media that's good, but if your not too sure try -R media first. There are less compatibility issues with them.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-16-2004 02:53 AM                     Oh? I must have ate up a 5-pack of the DVD-R disks trying to make up a DVD backup. The DVD+R does in all of them. The DVD-R works great for data....but that was about it. That's why I scratched my head so much on this issue. I went to my computer GURU and assured me the DVD+R was the way to go if I wanted to fry DVD's, as long as I had a DVD+R/RW drive. It looks like he was correct on that one. I was told the DVD-R will burn in a DVD+R/RW machine. I don't have any DVD-R drives as such, so I guess it depends what you have. That is a catch-22. Make sure you know what kind of drive you have before you buy the disks. Otherwise, you'll waste money like I did. I thought I might have been doing something wrong, but from what I can determine after I talked to the Guru, I was not. I simply blindly baught the wrong style disks.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-16-2004 03:37 PM                     I use a Panasonic HS80 hard drive/DVD-R burner for home movies and TV shows, and a Pioneer outboard burner with my laptop for minor production duties, captures, and the like. I've used 321's X-Copy, XPoint, and DVDExtreme without problems, and also the bundled Sonic and Nero stuff. Honestly, I can't say I have a favorite among them--each has strong and weak points, but they all work.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-20-2004 01:22 PM                     I went with the Plextor 708. Its been really nice so far. I have not yet bought any high end DVD authoring software. Am just using the Roxio DVD builder that comes bundled with the drive. So far things have been totally reliable using Sony DVD+R blanks and no crashes what so ever but the image seems a little grainy and a tad brighter than the original looks so I will eventually get something else to do this chore. Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-20-2004 02:27 PM                     DVD+R is what your Plextor wants. I don't think DVD-R disks will work. The DVD-R blank won't in my Plextor PX-712A.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-20-2004 04:40 PM                     The Plextor specs state that it is a DVD+- R/RW but I've only tried the DVD + disks and high speed CD blanks which also work just fine. Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-20-2004 05:06 PM                     Give the DVD-R disks a try. You have noting to lose. The model you may have might work with them if the specs say it will. I wish mine did.  |  IP: Logged

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