I have this drive, and bought some memorex DVD-DL discs for it. They were not acknowledged by the drive. Does anyone know of discs that are compatible with this drive? thanks
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MEMOREX DL DISCS are crappy. For DL discs use only VERBATIM.
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Do you have the latest firmware?
What budz said is right, but the drive should still "see" the discs.-The Mang -
DVD-R-DL disks rarely work. Buy only DVD+R-DL and Verbatim do work best.
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People who buy ANYTHING for DL media except Verbatim DVD+R DL discs post here asking why their burns fail. By the way, Memorex discs are bar none the crappiest DVD discs I have ever bought. I bought a 25 pack some years ago before I learned better. You might be interested in
http://www.nomorecoasters.com
which talks about DVD blank media quality. Memorex doesn't make the worst discs on the planet, but they are still pretty bad and still the worst I ever bought.
If you must use DVD-R DL, only buy Verbatim and do note that the only program I know of that can correctly write to them is ImgBurn. DVD-R DL must be burned with special settings specific to the format. You have to manually set the layer break point whereas DVD+R DL allows for some flexibility in seting the layer break. ImgBurn has a setting that in theory might work to manually detect the proper layer break point for DVD-R DL discs, but I have never used it. I bought a 3 pack of DVD-R DL discs a couple of years ago and never bought any more. My DVD player (Philips DVP-642) didn't like the discs at all and they were also expensive and a pain to burn because of the special settings necessary, so I only use Verbatim DVD+R DL discs now. -
thanks to everyone who replied to my post I did buy some TDK DVD-R DL discs, and they kick royal butt! Nooo problems with them. Dual Layer RULES!! I love it! I am sure the compressed space will cause for some rather fragile discs, meaning i will protect them by keeping them in the jewel cases. I'll refrain from buying Memorex ones again!
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Interesting. Four of us responded, 3 of us told you to buy Verbatim, NOBODY told you to buy TDK, and what did you do? You bought TDK. Glad to know our advice was so helpful to you. Did you at least burn with ImgBurn or did you ignore that too?
Let us know if 1-2 years if your TDK DVR-R DL discs are still playable. TDK has become rather infamous for their USA sold media in that they now outsource it to some of the worst and cheapest manufacturers there are. -
Well, in snafubaby's defense, I have some one-year-and-a-half-old TDK DL discs that play just fine.
In my own defense, I was still pretty ignorant when I bought them and had no idea about the future playability of non-Verbatim discs. They were actually THE first DL discs I ever bought.
I've now learned better after doing some studying.
So, now that I've defended snafubaby, I find that I must ask basically the same question jman98 did. Why, when this area of the forum is full - and I mean damned full - of people recommending Verbatim discs, did you go buy TDKs? I know they used to make some good cassette tapes, but that doesn't translate into good DVD DL media. -
Originally Posted by dadrab
Who knows? The original poster may have gotten lucky with some old stock of good TDK media or perhaps the discs are OK now, but won't be in a few years.
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