All your Princo are belong to us.

[DVDEmperor]

In my never ending quest to find the truth about DVD-R degration I came across a guy on IRC who had just thrown away about 100 of his discs because they no longer were being read by dvd-roms or dvd players.

These were Princo brand. 2X and about a year old.

To quote what he said: "Princo set me up the bomb"

Princo? Just say no!

[Gees]

:cD Ah! I love it! Great post - for the big smile factor! :cD

Thanks for that!

[tompika]

Even lordsmurf stopped using them
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=688745&highlight=#688745

[lordsmurf]

Princo? Just say no!

No! No! No! No!

[Hardcoreruss]

I rate princos I use bulkpaq orange 4x and I have never had a single coaster.

[haymes]

Ask him if those 100 dvd-r's had labels on them? That usually screws up the dvd-r.

[DVDEmperor]

I asked, they did not have labels on them. They were also burned at 2X. Apparently when he puts in the Princos into his dvd player it says: "Not a valid format". When he puts it into his DVD-ROM computer, it reads it for a second or two then ejects it out, as if it were blank.

He has tested nearly 60 of them, all the same, he has now thrown them away.

I told him to get an account on here so he could post his findings so you should see something soon from him directly.

Thanks for posts!

[SLK001]

Well, all your friend would have had to do was read this forum last year. It was clear back then that the DVD-Rs made by Princo were crap.

[haymes]

What kind of burner and authoring software did he use? I have had a lot of trouble with burning at 2x on those maxell unbranded discs. They would show it right from the start. Don't burn at 2x unless you are using branded media. I have a pioneer 104 and it worked fine with fuji branded, but with maxell unbranded, 30 percent of them useless after 2x, some even bad after 1x. I am now using samsung bealls with complete satisfaction.