Has anyone else experienced this wierd media problem?

[ruelro]

I've been burning DVDs in my NEC1300a using the cheap Princo 2x DVD-R media with no problems for months. Now suddenly I'm experiencing the following problem:

The DVDs appear to burn normally, and can be played back on the computer through the NEC1300a normally. However when I try to read the DVD in another device, the DVD isn't recognized as valid. I bought a few cheap DVD-Rs of another brand, and they work just fine. So I assume this is a media problem.

What I don't understand is why this started happening in the middle of a batch of Princo DVD-Rs that I purchased a month ago, and now happens consistently with every Princo DVD-R I burn. I would expect more randomness. Also, if the DVD-R was bad, I would expect to get burning errors - or at the very least not be able to play it back on the NEC1300a.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Could it be that the problem is something other than the Princo media? Literally nothing was changed on my computer during the period of time when these failures began occurring.

[SLK001]

Gees... another Princo "media" question.

Read the posts on Princo "quality". You'll probably conclude (like a good many of us here) that Princos are to be avoided at all costs.

Princo is not ashamed to sell as "good media" stuff that they know is crap. Consider yourself lucky that you got some of them to burn successfully. However, check back with us in a year's time and report how many of them are still good. I'll lay odds that you will have significantly less than you have today.

I hope that what you put on your Princos are not something that you cannot afford to lose in a year.

Not mad, and not upset. It's just that "those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them"... or something like that.