bad burns?!?!?

[glockjs]

lately ive noticed when im burning a cdr on my dvdr dual that the cd's dont come out quite right. when i look on the bottom of the cd i see dark splotchs. of course this causes a prob with reading the disk. im using an emprex 8x(aka btc 1008) with gq media(the cheap stuff from frys). i havnt really had a prob with this media before with my regular 48x burner. im wondering is this the burner or the media? which do i blame??????

[JohnnyCNote]

Splotches? That's a new one on me, but I'd suspect the disk. Have you tried a different brand? That would be the best way to isolate whether it's the disk or the drive....

[redwudz]

I had this on some of my SVCD discs after about a month. It trashed them along with about 15 movies. Taught me never to use cheap discs. I suspect the blotches on my discs were the silver layer delaminating from the plastic from the heat of the DVD player.

[glockjs]

yeah, it seems at lower speeds (16x) it doesnt seem to be as much of a prob.. so i wanna say it is the media.. i just wanna make sure cause ive only had the burner for 2 1\2 weeks... had a prob with cheap dvd media too.. guess i gotta stop bein so cheap..

[dcsos]

gq media(the cheap stuff from frys).

Not familiar with GQ media
Is it anything like the magazine?
Long on STYLE but short on SUBSTANCE!!!!

[PhreakPhish]

i got a test set of 2 Ritek G04 DVD-R dics and 1 worked fine and the next one had a purple smear - i dont knwo if this was before i burnt or after. I was having aproblem with my dvd's (sandy yang brand) skipping and freezing at the end of movies - not sure where this smear came from either - i have a pioneer 105 burner and use nero 6

[dcsos]

sandy yang brand

GQ Media
Sandy Yang Brand
whats next?
dual layer Haliburton Media?

honesly do they sell those in stores?
I hope you hadda get that junk off the internet, NO?

[PhreakPhish]

off of ebay - yeah i know - i didnt realize until after -=[
some of the burns work , but most dont - the problem is that i still got the same exact error with the Ritek G04 disc - not sure why

[venky_m]

I also purchased Emprex DVD Burner drive from Fry's. I am facing a similar problem with GQ DVDs I purchased from frys. I tried burning 4 gb of data to the DVD disk.
I had no problem burning data, but I am not able to retrieve the data back. It takes 2 hrs to copy the data back to the the hard disk and even then , it fails to copy and terminates.

I am not sure whether the probelm is with the DVD writer or the DVD disk itself. I will buy a better quality DVD media and try again.

Also, the disk is getting heated up very quickly.

[jeex]

[quote="dcsos"]GQ Media[\quote]

i remember buying a 100 pack of GQ ("Great Quality", seriously) cd-r's a few years ago, they were the shittiest cd-r's in history.. they were silver/top green/bottom, a day after burning the sliver on top started peel off and the discs were useless.. i used the discs for transferring data from one computer to another, thats all they were good for, very short term use..