Disk or E50 the problem?

[Mechworker]

Here's one for you...

I was recording this morning on some blue-watermarked Maxell -R disks when I ran into a problem.

It was 38 minutes into a recording, and the E50 I was using just stopped, puked and went into a recover. Oddly enough, it managed to come back, and what had been recorded was fine.

The weird parts are this:

1.) I had it do this once before on a blue-watermark Maxell, but it puked as it was writing info to disk after I hit stop, and then it locked the disk. I couldn't access anything on the disk after that.

2.) This time, I was able to access what I had recorded, and I then continued from where I had left off, with no problem.

3.) The VCR was 42 minutes into the record when the failure occured, but only 38 minutes had made it to the DVD.

Thus, is there a problem with my buffer? Am I having a problem with the disks (I thought Maxell -Rs made in Japan were God-like...) or is it something else?

I'm currently backing up my tapes, and I can't afford to be running and checking the machine all the time. It needs to be able to run for hours and hours with no failures.

Any ideas?

[ejai]

Try another brand of disk such as TDK, Maxell is known to have problems with certain recorders.

[handyguy]

I use Accus, work 100% all the time. About $60/100

[ejai]

I use to use Accu but most of the disks I created had problems playing in my friend's and families' dvd players. A few of the disks I made now stopped working, but some people like them, to each his own.

TDK has been the only brand I've found so far that hasn't given me any problem at all.

8)

[dafoe]

I have burned well over 1000 discs with my E20 and HS2.

What you are describing happened constantly with my E20 when I tried my first batch of generic media at $4 a disc (A good price back then. As soon as I tried a different brand the problems went away.

It still happens once in a great while when I get a bad disc. This is normal when you use faulty media on the Panasonics.

I don't know about Maxell discs, but quality control changes from week to week on DVD media- so who knows. TDK used to be one of the best. My last two spindles were complete crap- I will not buy that brand again.

If you are recording important stuff, I would go with TY. I've never heard anyone say anything bad about them.

[kentu3]

I have a Panny E50, and it hates Maxell Disks.
Once I started using Ritek, everything has worked out fine

good luck

[chas0039]

I concur; Ritek G04s are a perfect match for me.