Panasonic E20 chocking on ritek media?

[arisen]

This is the first time I got Ritek's (G04) and they work beautifully on the PC, but on the standalone, one in 3 DVDs wouldn’t work. It loads, the recoring starts, it buffers for a few seconds, but when it tries to write, it shuts off with a 011 error message. This is consistent, tyring a few times on the same DVD, same result, shuting off. Some DVD work, no problem, but as I said, about 1 in 3 dont.

After I take it out the DVD is still blank, I can use it on the PC no problem.

Is this a common problem, or there’s maybe something wrong with my machine?

[asichter]

Yes this is a common issue with the E20 and cheaper media. It can be very fussy about what you throw at it. I haven't tried Ritek myself, but I have experimented with cheap media and made many coasters with the E20. I've since stuck to named brands such as TDK, Verbatim, & Panasonic and have never had a bad disc. The only 'cheaper' media I've used with a 100% success rate are TEAC.

It is a matter of experimenting and finding what best suits.

Good luck.

Andy S.

[louthewiz]

I had the e-20 and I now have the e-80H and I have always used the compusa brand 1x media and I never had a coaster . I hope this helps ,I usually get them on a spindle of 25 for $20 bux and 50 for $ 45... so check out www.compusa.com

[arisen]

Thanks for the advice. I had problems before with cheap media (skipping and pixilation mostly) but I thought Ritek doesn’t classify as such. My bad.

Thanks again.

[pan-dmre30s]

I use the Panasonic dmr-e30 (october 2002) with some cheap dvd-r media discs

I have used it consistently for over a year (800 plus discs)

The recorder fails and starts a new video set (recording) automatically.

You can see the timer starts back over at 0:00 at this point.

I just stop everything and start over on a new disc.
The disc would be able to finalize but it would have sector errors and fail
during playback.

Strangely I have burned 50 of the same discs at 1X using my PC with no errors.
(That is I can read them back with no sector errors )

I am wondering if my panasonic unit is causing these failures as the discs work much better in the PC recorder.

I recently had a strange error where it recorded to the end of a DVD and kept trying to record for 30 minutes afterwards.
Timer on VCR was 2 hours and panasonic recorder timer was stopped at 1 hour 30 mins.

When I tried to stop the recording it kept flashing the writing data to disc message repeatedly.

I had to cycle power a few times to get the disc to eject .