[Dvdrtools-users] Re: DVD burners

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Sat 14 May 2005 15:51:07 NZST +1200, address@hidden wrote:

> ps i will never buy a pioneer drive again. My bro had a 107 
> which was good. But the 108 and 109 are rubbish. Ive tried 
> burning with cdrecord-proDVD, growisofs, dvd-decrypter, 
> adaptec easy cd/dvd creator. I have used princo, and laser, 
> (both rubbish), tho now the price is reasonable i only 
> use tdk or preferably verbatim disks. I still get burns that fail
> to verify, maybe 5/50, or 10%. Princo disks gave many more 
> failures. Since using the good disks i no longer blame these
> problems on media. Either these pioneer drives and/or 
> cdrecord-proDVD is rubbish.

Interesting! I have a 106, and it doesn't burn some of the cheaper
rubbish, like Princo, but hey who cares. I was rather annoyed when I
discovered that it burns the Verbatim DVD-R 4x no problems ever, but not
at all the Verbatim DVD-R 8x. A firmware upgrade would be needed, but of
course Pioneer is more interested in selling me a new burner than
supporting the older ones.

If you get a 10% failure rate on what I would view as reasonably good
quality (Verbatim, TDK), then the burner either isn't adjusting properly
to that particular media, or is defective. I either case you'd need to
treat all burnt disks as suspect, the ones which verified now might not
any more with a few minor scratches.

> the LG drive i just got last week seems to work like a charm,

Thanks for the tip, LG GSA-4163BB are cheap here and seem like the best
choice.

Volker

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