Anyone come across these new DVD-R's ?

[ozstar100]

Hi,

They are matt white top all the way to the centre have a shiny edge and look really nice. Evidently have model for ink and another for thermal.

Etched in small print is..

IFPI GA28 DVD-R 2 4 0805-14

This is the code from DVDINFO-Pro 2.4

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID VDSPMSAB 01
Format Capacity Not Formatted
Free Blocks 411107328
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 1.0x 1385KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 0B
2x Speed OPC power 10
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 17
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 0A 0B
4x Write Strategy field 2 98 08 0F 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 1C
4x Write Strategy field 4 13 A8 88 65
4x Write Strategy field 5 98 9A 88 80 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Info
00000000 08 02 00 00 25 02 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....%...........
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..............

Disc Manufacturing Info - 1st lines
00000000 08 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Unique Disc Identifier
00000000 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 ........00000000
00000010 30 30 30 30 30 30 08 04 05 C0 00 08 06 40 00 18 000000.......@..
00000020 07 40 60 04 0C 40 78 04 0D 40 80 08 0E 40 00 44 .@`..@x..@...@.D
00000030 0F C0 00 16 10 40 08 04 30 40 80 04 C0 C0 00 08 .....@..0@......
00000040 FF 40 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@.D............
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000 00 00 00 00 ................

Burnt one well with AO106D but worried about what stand alone players will reject them..

[garryheather]

There are 32 references to this media type in the guide to the left - do a search for VDSPMSAB and see what comes up.

Most people either seem to love them or hate them...

[tompika]

I'll never forget this media code:

00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 EA 0B 14 .l...@....R.....
76 78 80 00 03 56 44 53 50 4D 53 00 04 41 42 20 vx...VDSPMS..AB
30 31 00 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 06 0B 10 11 01..............


This is the one and only media ( SKY 1-4xDVD-R ) that wasn't readable in standalone players when burned at max 4x speed (Pioneer DVR-106, fw1.07)
only the burner could read it back. However at 2x speed its OK.

Burning them on Nec1300 or LG4040 was not possible.
They failed at the lead in.

[Roderz]

VDSPMSAB 01

Got some of these and all I can say is UTTER SHITE on my burner at least
Have to put the Disc's in about 10 times for nero to pick it up and burn it - and then only @ X2 then Data verification fails (100%) with inaccessible files
But they do play ok??????
Not worth the hassle, UTTER SHITE even @ £7 for 25.

[Pacis]

That's right.
Those VDSPMSAB 01 ... :P
I had to burn these medias at 2x too.