How you can save MONEY: a tip for DMR-E30 Owners

Erwin · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2001 Location: Niceville

I have burned about 9 DVD-Rs so far, and I thought I was doing great. Than I started watching some of the DVD-Rs on all my players. Some DVD-Rs would pixelate and drag towards the end (3 out of 9). You know what, the only DVD-Rs that did this are ones where I deleted/erased a title on the DVD-R. I don't think this is coincidental. I would highly recommend not erasing titles. Now I have to go back and record 7 hrs

My Pioneer DVD player plays them fine. My Curtis Mathes will play the disc fine until I get pass the area where I erased the title and my ProScan will play the disc until the last or second to last title despite where the title was erased (very strange).

Eug · Member Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Location: Canada

Erwin · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2001 Location: Niceville

"Cheap discs are cheap discs. They don't always work even if you don't erase something.

Good discs work all the time, regardless if you erase stuff or not."

Not hardly....they are Verbatim DVD-Rs. The Verbatims (when files are erased) would work all time if the DVD-Rs were only played in current DVD players (ex. Pioneer DV-250).

tards · Member Joined: 04 Feb 2003

I don't believe Verbatims are considered "good discs". And when you "erase" titles, you are not really erasing. You're just kinda wasting some disk space that is never looked at again.

My guess is that you are experiencing media problems with the Verbatim brand. Verbatim may have a good reputation with some other recordable media, but not DVD-Rs.

Order some $1 Riteks and you will be perfectly happy.

Erwin · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2001 Location: Niceville

"I don't believe Verbatims are considered "good discs"."

I don't know too many who think they are bad. I have had success with all them, it's just that when I use the "erase" option, the disc won't play as well on "SOME" of my DVD players.

"And when you "erase" titles, you are not really erasing. You're just kinda wasting some disk space that is never looked at again."

I know, but for some reason this must confuse my other 2 DVD players. If I don't use the "erase", everything seems to be fine on all my players.

tards · Member Joined: 04 Feb 2003

You may be right on this, but I have not noticed this on my HS2 (or my old E20). I screw up titles and re-do them often. I have never noticed playback issues that I can attribute to this.

My only problems have been CHEAP media. Most cheap media will not even record (gets U11 error). But even some that will finalize wil not play well. And if you ever got to rip a cheap disc with dvddecrypter, you will see how cheap it is...it will only rip at 1x-2x, not 8x-10x like good discs as you get read errors.

I went through this media debate with Panny recorders over a year ago. I tried everything. The expensive Apples aslways worked. The moderate brands sometimes worked. The cheap brands almost never worked. Then I found Ritek. Cheap and they always work.

Erwin · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2001 Location: Niceville

tards, I hear you, I don't like paying much for DVD-Rs either. But, I also don't want to get media that won't work. I got a bunch of Verbatim DVD-Rs this week b/c BESTBUY is having a "rebate special". You buy a 15PK of Verbatim DVD-Rs for $37.99 and you get $17.00 in rebates which makes them $1.34 a piece. That is very, very cheap for Verbatims or any good quality brand. I have heard good things about Ritek. After all my some of my recordings are complete, I will start experimenting with other brands.