Best Media for Lite-on 411s

[MtBuckley46]

Does anyone know which DVD-R's are the best to use with the lite-on 411s? Best and reasonably priced of course.
Thanks in advance...Mike

[dmk1974]

I have the Lite-On 401S and am curious as well. I can say that I have not had success with Memorex 4.7 GB 4X DVD+R discs in my Lite-On drive.

[buffotoad]

I have the same drive and have flashed it to FS0F firmware (FS0G is out now, but I haven't tried it).
I have had very good success with the Memorex 4x DVD+R (non-CMC) when burning with Instantcopy, TMPGenc DVDAuthor, and a trial copy of CopytoDVD.
I also have had great success burning the DVD+R and DVD+RW that came with the drive with the same software.
But absolutley no success burning anything with Nero 6.x.

[dmk1974]

I just got TDK DVD+R's at the local Circuit City and for the n=1 it worked perfectly.

I too had success with the generic DVD+R that came with my drive and repeated success with the generic DVD+RW that came with it.

Where would I find if my Memorex DVD+R's are CMC or not? Maybe that is my issue?

[buffotoad]

I use a free tool called DVD Identifier. Download it - it will tell you whether the DVD's are CMC.

I've read that Memorex has their DVD R's made from different sources and that the DVD R+'s made by CMC are of low quality. Also, another way to tell is that the base spindle of the non-CMC ones is light grey.

I'm sure there are people here who know a whole lot more about all of this than I do, but at least its a start.

Good luck!

[buffotoad]

By the way, my Memorex's are Ricoh.

ALso, read this - https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=172496

[jtommyj]

See this post. I detail what media I have used since I got my burner.


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=195653

[steves38]

I've got the same drive and use the Ritek G04's and have not had a coaster yet.

[Faustus]

Ritek G04 -R and any Ricoh disc should be safe bets for just about any burner out there.

[MtBuckley46]

This may sound silly...but what does CMC mean. Also which program shold i use to burn the actual DVD....not having much luck with Nero 6x

[buffotoad]

CMC is the name of the company that manufactured the disks - Memorex just slaps their name on them.

I have had success burning with Pinnacle Instantcopy, TMPGEnc DVD Author, and CopytoDVD. I've had no luck burning DVD with Nero 6.

[Timster]

The question should be 'what media is best for your stand-alone DVD player'. I have the 401s and it pretty much works for every media I've tried. However that doesn't mean your stand-alone dvd player will play it. Stand alone DVD players are much more finicky than your lite-on writer.