Re: Both Burners Started to FAIL Dual Layer burns ONLY!

[Animeniac]

Uh, in response to the Admin that locked the original post for WAREZ!! WTH does that have to do with ANYTHING?? The problem doesn't occur just with PORN!! ANY burns, my own authored DVD's also. ANY DVD9's Whether it's DATA or VIDEO. I also Convert my own LEGALLY downloaded porn (paid websites) for my own viewing pleasure on a DVD player. Oh well, guess a BAN is next. Nice and THANKS for the SNUBS. Wonder how many times using Firmware HACKS are dissussed here for Region free DVD's on PC's here? Oh THAT's NOT WAREZ!!!!!!!!

[filmboss80]

Many of us legally purchase DVDs that are exclusive to a foreign country and have no domestic release. In order to view them, region hacks for our players can be a helpful alternative. That is not warez. Since you admit to occasionally burning copies of illegally downloaded material, don't expect any of us to be complicit in your crimes.

[jman98]

I did not see your original post, but I do sympathize with you. A few weeks ago I had a private exchange with a moderator about a post that I thought should not have been banned. For better or worse, VideoHelp has a rather loose definition of "warez". It's not one I necessarily agree with, but it's enforced rather rigidly. The MPAA and RIAA have basically forced their hand on this.

My suggestion to you would be to wait a few days if not a week and join the forums again under another name. Be very careful in how your phrase your posts. Posting that simply DVD-9 burning isn't working on your PC should be OK without you going into the details of what you are burning. Then again, some may ask "What you are burning?" You could also post that you have legally downloaded video content that you paid for that you wish to burn without getting into the specifics as to what that is. You could also post and state that you did NOT download any Hollywood movies and this has nothing to do with P2P sites.

[Animeniac]

I did not see your original post, but I do sympathize with you. A few weeks ago I had a private exchange with a moderator about a post that I thought should not have been banned. For better or worse, VideoHelp has a rather loose definition of "warez". It's not one I necessarily agree with, but it's enforced rather rigidly. The MPAA and RIAA have basically forced their hand on this.

My suggestion to you would be to wait a few days if not a week and join the forums again under another name. Be very careful in how your phrase your posts. Posting that simply DVD-9 burning isn't working on your PC should be OK without you going into the details of what you are burning. Then again, some may ask "What you are burning?" You could also post that you have legally downloaded video content that you paid for that you wish to burn without getting into the specifics as to what that is. You could also post and state that you did NOT download any Hollywood movies and this has nothing to do with P2P sites.

Thanks for the sympathy. The irony of the thing is YES I DO BUY Hollywood movies, TV etc. I'm very fanatical in the fact that I BUY ALL MY MOVIES & TV Legitimately!!! I've got ALL the Stargate series, TREKS, Firefly series etc. on DVD. I don't have ONE pirated movie or TV episode on DVD. EXCEPT Kill Bill Vol. 1 I BOUGHT from JAPAN (UNCUT) and ripped to Region 1. I get pissed when a co-worker tells me he saw a movie on DVD from the guy at work that gets boot legs of IN THEATRES films he paid $5 for!! So, I don't P2P ANY Hollywood or TV disks. I buy em ALL! As for PORN, YES I download and burn PORN DVD's. I've also Purchased approximately 1,200 porn DVD's LEGALLY for years. YEP!! That's the size of my (LEGAL PORN) collection!! I've since stopped buyiing it due to financial restraints and it was time to STOP the addiction. So, Im basically burning PORN (alot less than I was buying it) that I'm NOT buying anymore anyway. I even like to take the legal copies of my porn and make STAR compilations for easier viewing MYSELF like a BEST of Tera Patrick or something. Oh, and BTW. For all the people justifying burning region free copies of imported dvd's because they "can't get it here". it's STILL PIRACY!! why do you think they HAVE region coding for???? Amazing how we find excuses for things to justify and end to a means. Oh and BTW, after buying a new set of DVD9's it's working OK again. Guess I had a bad batch or Brand of disks.

[jman98]

Region coding wasn't really designed to stop piracy per se. Yes, Hollyweird may have been stupid enough to believe that it could never be defeated and thus copied discs could not be played in players for other regions, but the real purpose for region coding was to support the now almost obsolete practice of staggered movie releases throughout the world. In the early days of DVD, Hollyweird would release its latest blockbuster to us lucky US and Canadian people and then a few months later trickle it over to Western Europe where it would crawl its way around the globe and eventually reach Asia 6 months - 1 year later. The whole idea behind region coding was that Americans could thus buy DVDs that were "unplayable" (or so they hoped) in parts of the world where the movie had yet to be released, so there was no fear that, say, Japanese people would just buy the US DVD and watch it before the film had even hit their movie theaters. But the ability to rip and copy DVDs removed region coding, thankfully, and Hollyweird had no choice but to go to a more sane release schedule where most films come out at the same time everywhere.

But anyway, to get back to the original problem, look I sympathize with your concerns. I really do. I don't know what your original post said, but obviously some people took it to mean that you were downloading illegally and trying to burn that. I gave you a solution on how to get around that, so just keep it in mind for the future. And yes, bad discs can give you bad burns. For DL media we recommend ONLY Verbatim DVD+R DL discs and its really best to get the made in Singapore ones if you possibly can. Note too that DVD-R DL discs in my experience are difficult to burn correctly (ImgBurn can do it) and some players can't play them correctly.

[offline]

Animeniac,

Your locked post may have been interpreted as advocating warez - one of our rules that you agree to abide by when posting here.

If you want to discuss this further could you PM a moderator please.

thanks