CYBERHOME 1500 ACTING STRANGE

[SHAZAM!!]

I went through about 150 discs and made about 25 coasters. All of the sudden I have recorded about 20 discs successfully. This week when I record on +r discs, it starts acting crazy. I record a movie at SP for about 90 minutes. Then when I try to play the disc back for editing, I get an error message. I eject the disc and then reload it and the display reads "NO DISC". A few +rw discs that I have recorded have a scratch burned into them and are ruined. What's going on with this thing? Any ideas?

[Mediaman2000]

I often get the "NO DISC" message.....but for me its no big deal. Just press setup twice and it will read the disc or alternatively power off and on again. Works for me....give it a try.

[SHAZAM!!]

That does not work for me. What makes a recorder not be able to play back a recording I just made? I am using Ritek 2.4x DVD+r discs. I get the ERROR message and the disc is wasted. Would it help to go with +RW discs exclusively? It seems if I avoid the finalizing process I have better luck. The finalizing process has always given me problems with this recorder. After I finalize a disc, the title comes up on the screen. Then when I try to play back the title I just recorded I get the ERROR message and the disc is ruined. I need help with these issues. Thanks.

[clynder]

I have been trying to use DVD+RW with this recorder and whatever it outputs seems to be readable only by the Cyberhome 1500, if you are lucky. I tried playing my DVD+RW's (both "made compatible" and not made compatible) in a Ricoh DVD reader, a Pioneer DVD settop player, my Cyberhome 500, and a Liteon DVD recorder. COASTERS! Some discs were not even playable on the 1500. I made one DVD+RW disc "compatible" too many times and the Cyberhome erased all the data! Or did it? DVD Rescue reports on my "compatible" disc:

The following information was collected by DVD X Rescue
Copyright 1997-2003, Arrowkey, Inc.
Licensed to 321 Studios, Inc.

Table of Contents
There are a total of 1 tracks on disc, plus the lead-out.
Disc is a DVD, type is DVD+RW
This disc has 1 layers.
Track 1 occupies 2295104 blocks (510 Min, 1 Sec, 29 Frames).
This track contains data and is ISO-9660 format.
Lead-out track starts at block 2295104.
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Data track 1 recorded as part of session 1.
19 blocks are used out of 2295104 blocks of space
The volume identifier is blank. This may cause problems.
Both the publisher and data preparer fields are blank. This should have somebody's name in it.
This track has an application identifier of " ".
There are 0 accessible files and 0 directories contained in this track.
The directory in this track qualifies as using the ISO-9660 character set.
The mastering program for this disc did not place version numbers (";1") after the filenames.
A properly written post-gap was found for this track.
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There are one or more conditions that make replication of this disc questionable.

The "mastering program" listed above was... The Cyberhome Make Compatible function! ISO Buster found my VIDEO_TS and VIDEO_RM directories on this "compatible" disc, so maybe there is hope. This is NOT the first time the Cyberhome 1500 has done this. I have 5 other coasters, a Ritek, a Verbatim, 2 Memorexes and a Maxell disc.

[Mediaman2000]

If want a machine that will record compatible discs then the CH-DVR1500 is not for you. However, if you want a replacement VCR then it will work great with DVD+RW discs.

For the occasional disc you want to archive if you have a PC with DVD burner just copy it to the hard drive and reauthor with TMPGEnc DVD Author or ULead DVD MovieFactory. That way you can add nice chapter menus etc (cos lets face it the Cyberhome menus suck!). You can then burn to DVD-R (which is much more compatible in my opinion) or even a DVD+R from a PC burner is much more reliable.

[clynder]

I agree. Problem is Cyberhome makes some issue of its compatibility with other players and it doesn't hold true at present.

[Austerville]

The only +RW discs that I've tried on the cyberhome 1500 were the ones that came with the drive - and they worked perfectly. They even played on my Samsung 709 player, which up until now had never even played CDRs

[clynder]

Funny, I didn't get any DVD+RW discs with this recorder. It came with a very nice zippered CD case that contained 3 Memorex DVD+R discs.

[eyequit]

If your recording problem is ongoing still, I would exhange it. Mine wont play on all players, but am still happy with the results. I did not have very many coasters, probally burning about 98% success.


Also my 3 disk were +RW's in my case.

[thewad01]

I have now had the third Cyberhome 1500 for a month now.This is the THIRD one I have brought back from Wal-Mart.Here is what I did wrong and what I did right....First thing I did was not to READ the specs for the unit as it calls for +r or +rw disks.Sony +r disks were bought and would not finalize.Second oversite was on Cyberhome,I could not edit the dvd title as the instruction book clearly stated I could.So back to Wal-mart goes the first recorder...Second recorder:Found the website for Cyberhome and read all there was to read,downloaded the upgrades(both)and installed,now clock will not keep time,but now able to edit movie title on dvd+r or +rw (Memorex DVD's as website calls for).
Back to wal-mart goes the second.Third recorder:Went back to the wesite and downloaded the first upgrade (U0226200401XA.ZIP)burned to cd and ran upgrade.All works!!Clock has right time,dvd's finalize,titles are editable on +rw or +r(Memorex)and disks I have burned will play on the Cyberhome,Emerson,Sylvania and JVC players I have.So hard lesson learned,read the specs on the disks to be used.Follow the upgrade instructions to the T!.Decide if you need or not need the servo upgrade after looking again at the version you have.That is what messed up my second recorder as you really have to figure out what version it is and what YOU have.I also have used the "new picture"function and the edit title on both +r and +rw Memorex DVD's as well as about all the other functions this unit has.Also there is a hack to make the player region free but as for now have been unable to
find one for Macrovision.And finally dvd+rw disks DO NOT have to be finalized to play in the above mentioned players.That is a good thing because if you get tired of the movie you burned you can always get the full disk back and record something else to it.I found one problem I could not correct.When recording open air the sound is very low,no fix for it YET..Hope someone will find this usefull and remember,wal-mart has a "keep it new" warranty for $26 and some change on their web site.If you mess it up,take it back........