Glitches at end of movie

[Jaspette]

I've been using Accu dvd-r media for over a year now but latelyI've been getting glitches at the very end of the movie. I just tried tdk on 5 movies and got perfect burns. Is the problem in the media I've been using? And if so, why did the problem just start in the past couple of months?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Desperate in Phoenix

[BobK]

The first thing I suspect when there's glitches at the end of the disk is bad media. The fact that your problem went away with different media is pretty confirmation.

> And if so, why did the problem just start in the past couple of months?

Same reason that you could drive American made cars with great quality from the 1940's till the mid-1960's, then they started making a lot of crap. Maybe be that the manufacturer has lowered the standards/quality control in the last couple of months.

[Jaspette]

That makes alot of sense. I just ordered a batch of Ritek G04, the consensus seems to be that Ritek is a good reliable media.

Thank you very much for your help.

Rebecca

[rkr1958]

I had the same problem too with Accu DVD-Rs. I found this out over a year ago. Anyway, I found that the movie was start freezing or show blockiness near the end but only after it had been playing for a couple of hours and was "warm". I found that if I loaded it in and navigated to the end with the DVD was "cold" it was fine. I too found that burning the movie to better quality media (e.g., TDK) resulted in no problems whether or not the media was "cold" or "warm".

[handyguy]

I use Accus & get that usually at the beginning but only one in 20 disks. It usually clears up after a few minutes.

[lenti_75]

that's media....it happened to me when i used shitty media

[nelson133]

I've had the same problem and it's always been media. several times I have cured it by making a one to one copy on better media and the second copy will play without flaws. Could only be the media. Nyah Levi

[tperricone]

I just recently purchased AZO media and a 100 pack at that. My liteon actually plays the media that has uncompressed movies on them, but the movies that are compressed freeze about 50minutes into the movie. I was originally using Ritek media with no problems and have since switched back. All though they are more expensive they are well worth it. I also see that the darker purple they are the better they seem to play. Maybe because, the players have to work harder to see the layer?

[markw]

What is a good media to use with the DRU-510A that's good quality but not too expensive. I had settled on ACCU and have used that for the last year or two with rarely a problem but as well the problems cropped upa couple months ago so I wonder if manufacturing changed. I blamed it on my drive at first. I recently upgraded to a DRU-530A and happened to notice the problems then. I got rid of the drive and went back to the DRU-510A but unfortunately have had it happen a couple times sense. Some of my media is older 1x and some the newer 4x but both are doing this.
I get what I Think was referrred to blockiness above. I have these odd blocks appear throughout a movie, often beginning, but sometimes during the movie and sometimes it's bad enough that the movie actually stops or won't play and it's like these multicolored garbled up boxes throughout the video.
I kind of suspect it's something that happens during finalizing. One thing I noticed, for some reason when Nero finishes burning some dvd's when I finish it it seems the finalizing takes far longer. These seem to be the problem DVD's most of the time. yet I have been able to take one of these dvd's and actually make another copy and the copy turns out fine telling me it's not the files on the DVD but something to do with finalizing or dvd quality.
I just want something that is going to last and I already wonder how many bad dvd's I have. I assumed the bad ones are the ones that are bad at the beginning but yet I have found problmes well into some other dvd's I never knew about. I want something that will last a long time also and won't be bad in 5 years. Any idea of another dvd-r brand I should look for?

[markw]

In respond to one earlier msg. I thought it was even my dvd player but the dvd didn't work in other players but unfortunately for me I have the problems whether the dvd is warm or cold.