Burner or Media Problem ?

[monstermash]

I have both a pioneer 105 and 106. Recently bought 100 pack Ritek GO4 printable surface DVD-R. When burnt on 105 no problems. When burnt on 106 the burnt area seems to fade about 3/4 of the way through the disc then comes back towards the outer edges. Tried some Verbatims and they work on 105 and 106. The bad burns wont play beyond about 3/4 of the way through the video but Nero/TDA/DVD Decrypter report no faults during burn. Cant understand why 105 burns no problem but 106 fails every time with GO4,s. Even returned 106 and got a new drive still the same. Please help.

[zod5000]

bad batch of g04's maybe, I had a batch. not the inkjet.. the ones labeled as ridata and most of them wouldn't even burn the lead-in at 4x, had to burn at 2x (just on the one batch) to get successful burns.

so I ordered ritek's from a different batch this time and they work fine, but you're not the only one experiencing problems, maybe Ritek's are losing their abilility to dominate the cheap spectrum of dvd-r's.

so try burning it slower until you can buy another spindle, thats my recommendation

- Brian

[monstermash]

Thanks for the reply. The only thing I dont get is why they burn faultlessly on my 105, not only one or two burns but every one so far (about 35). This is a big problem as our main work is weddings/corporate promo films. We cant fully check every disc as most of our projects last 90 - 160 mins. Do I return the Discs or just stick to the 105 until all 200 discs are done, although I still wouldnt trust these for unsuspecting customers.

[monstermash]

Also Where do you get the batch number and How do you make sure you dont get the same batch again.

01 40 c1 fd 9e d8 52 00 02 76 0e 14 88 9a 80 00 .@....R..v......
0010 : 03 52 49 54 45 4b 47 00 04 30 34 00 00 00 00 00 .RITEKG..04.....
0020 : 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 06 08 12 11 86 67 80 00 .............g..
0030 : 07 88 80 00 00 00 00 00 08 05 1b 0e 10 08 09 00 ................
0040 : 09 97 06 0d 0b 80 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 ................
0050 : 0b 04 1d 18 a8 88 85 00 0c 89 ac 88 80 00 00 00 ................
0060 : 0d 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 48 00 00 00 00 ...........H....

This is the media code as copied from DVD Identifier.
Thanks