Reusing CD-RW with SVCD Burn

[XTerminator24]

I'd like to start using CD-RW media to put my SVCD captures on and play in my Stand Alone Hitachi DVD player... I've had great success with CD-R but on many occasions I only view the CD once and then never pick it up again. Just thinking that if I could efficiently "reuse" a CD that would be great....

My question is - "How do I do it?" If I use Nero won't that make the CD unusable? Is there an option or setting that I have to enable prior to burning?

thanks in advance

[AntnyMD]

You can quote me: "If Nero can burn it, Nero can erase it." That is, if its a CD-RW. Now keep in mind its been my experience the more I reuse my CDRW discs, the more weird things happen on playback. Of course, I treat my CDRW discs like crap so I should be more friendly toward them, and all compact discs in general throughout the world!

I once left a CD in the trunk of my car to see how many years it would take to destroy it. I gave up after 5 years. The damn thing still played, scratches, motor oil, two major moves, groceries, general getting-bumped-around, always rolling out into parking lots, falling into puddles, getting stuck in the snow once...

[patrickm]

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yeah, that's about 90% true. it will sometimes ruin a CD-RW if it fails in the middle of the write and doesn't recover, but otherwise it'll erase almost anything. DON"T FORMAT YOUR CD-RW IN DIRECTCD. (directCD is garbage). in fact, there's no real reason to format CD-RW at all. just treat them like CD-R that you can put back in the drive and hit 'erase'.

as for weird effects on old cd-rw, somtimes it's good to go down to the disc's minimum speed and do a 'full erase' instead of 'quick (TOC) erase'

[Greg12]

I do a full erase every 10th time I erase the disk.

I use CD-RW to test before I burn the CD-R

[XTerminator24]

Great!!! Thanks, I'm going to give it a shot now and see how it goes.

[Graham Meredith]

After using CDRW's constantly now for several months, I'd never go back to CDR. You never have to worry about finding your SVCD is not compliant and making a coaster, you just erase it and try different settings. Besides, how many times can you watch a movie before you're sick of it? After a while it just ends up collecting dust, so you just erase it and put a new one on.

Graham