Sony Dvd +- DVD dw-d56a

[ryanch]

Hey guys, new to the forum. I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a Sony DVD+- RW DW-D56A burner in it. I am having a little trouble backing up DVD's. Recently most of the copies have bad spots in the copy where the movie will stop and hesitate and sometime just freeze. I use DVD shrink and Nero 6 to burn with. I have been using Smartbuy 4.7 GB 8X disks. I seemed to do pretty well with my first spool of 50, then i bought a spool of 100 and have not been so lucky with this one. Does anybody have this drive and know what the best disks are for this particular burner? Should I use different programs to burn with? Larger disks? Get a external DVD rom so I can copy directly from the original DVD to a blank disk? Add more RAM? Get a new burner? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated as you alot of you guys probably know more about this than I do. I'm not really concerned with speed as much as I am the quality of the burn.

[Grain]

What you are describing fits poor media to a T. The only brands I can say will not give you trouble are Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim. Try out some different blanks from either of those companys and your problems should go away.

[ryanch]

Ok Thank you, a couple people have told me to get Verbatim so I guess that is what I will do. Is there any truth that it is better to buy smaller spools or individual cased DVD's to get maximum quality?

[canadateck]

Ok Thank you, a couple people have told me to get Verbatim so I guess that is what I will do. Is there any truth that it is better to buy smaller spools or individual cased DVD's to get maximum quality?

No

[Grain]

No truth at all. You'll get a far better deal(cost per disc) buying a spindle, with zero sacrifice in quality.