Very freaky burn of a DVDR

[Faustus]

So my friend thinks his burner may be dying. Some of his recent burns can no longer be read entirely through with Nero DVD Speed, though for now they seem ok in the burner. To further complicate things he recently tried Nero 6, but stopped after oen burn to figure out if he's having a burner problem or now. ANYWAY here is a picture of the disc he burned, very strange stuff kids.

[garryheather]

The picture doesn't do it justice, I'm afraid.

Is it a matter of the disc suddenly becoming "milky" or shaded in appearance ? If so, suspect the media and / or obsolete or otherwise faulty hacked firmware. I have seen this sort of thing on a colleague's A05 on some really cheap media, and it played fine until the disc reached the part that looked out of focus to the naked eye where it promptly died a horrific death.

An update of firmware and better quality media later, the problem went away. I'm not sure why the writer suddenly seemed to adopt a different and totally inappropriate write strategy half way through a burn, but apart from an extensive collection of coasters, the drive seemed to suffer no ill effects.

[Faustus]

Sadly I saved the scan and exited before I realized my jpeg compression was WAY to high. It actually burned most of the disc, then skipped part of it, only to pick up and finish the burn at the end.