Media Problem or Burner?

[pelsamra]

Hi,

I finished backing up a movie using DVD Decrypter and DVD2ONE and burning with Nero. While playing it on my Sony DVP-NS325 standalone DVD player it plays fine. When I play the DVD on my Panasonic A110 it pixelates and freezes. I'm using Ritek G04 printables and I have a Sony DRU-530A burner Is this a media problem or just my very old panasonic player having trouble reading it (5 years old)?

Thanks

[Sasarchiver]

To get a better idea, try on a few friends dvd players. If they work fine, then its ok. Anaylize the DVD with dvdshrink, thats what i do to check realiblity of a disc, when u open it with dvdshrink, it will give the disk a quick check then goto backup mode, if it does this the dvd id ok and readable, there for works (well for me anyways)....goodluck

[dxj40c]

It could be media, but more than likely it's the age of the player. We have 3 DVD players in the house, Pioneer, Samsung, and a new Sony NS725P. The Sony plays every thing we put in it. The Pioneer (4 years old) plays all commercial DVDs, almost all DVD+-RW, and a few DVD+-R (specifially Maxell and Verbatim). The Samsung (about 2 years old) plays all commercial DVDs, and about 50% of DVD+-R/RW.

I think the dye color has something to do with it for the Pioneer and Samsung, the darker the better. Just my observation, no scientific tests involved here.

[garryheather]

A DVD player does not "see" like you and I do - it's circumstantial evidence if you judge a disc by the shade of the dye.

Some new players still have problems with recordable media, so you can't really go by age either I'm afraid -cost doesn't mean anything either since a budget player worth £30 can be more tolerant than a player costing 10 times that. Strange but true. Pain, isn't it ?

I'm surprised you're haviving trouble with G04's, but if they sort of work I've found the recently produced Optodisc manufactured media to be a good alternative. They might work a little better in your problemtatic player. Try getting a sample pack of a number of discs from one of the online suppliers and brun the same movie to each and see which performs best across all your platforms and go with that. It sounds like you need to experiment a little.

Oh yes, check the firmware in your recorder is current too - quite often the firmware upgrades improve on write strategy and than can make a considerable difference to certain media.

[Everclear]

Try Burning your disc with something other than Nero I used to use it and had problems with the disc's playing ok on my panasonic but not on my sony.
Try using something like Recordnow max 4.5

[pelsamra]

Thanks for all the help. I'll try upgrading the firmware and change the media.

[mrtho]

Hi,

I am also having problems similar to yours. I have worked out what it is. If you look on the bottom of the disk after burning, you will see some dark blue marks when under the correct light. This is whats causing it to be bad, asthe laser can't read the data here.

On investigation I noticed that all my Ritek printables had small white flakes on the data side of the disk. When the laser is burning the data, it cant burn that sector because of this flake, which when removed after burning causes this blue dot (because that spot has not be burned)

The way i found around this is to remove any specs of dust etc of the disk before burning.

I sent a load of these disks back to svp, all with a serial begining with H5 and they exchanged them. The 1st box i got back had serial begining with J3, i got about 85% of those to work. I have opened anorther box today with serial H4 and most of those have very small bluedots, as I have left small flakes on the data side.

I have a feeling that these white flakes are bits of the covering there using for the printable surface. I think Ritek have really let there quality control go, I just hope they improve it before i buy more disks.

Cheers

Ste

[iooi]

Hi,
I sent a load of these disks back to svp, all with a serial begining with H5 and they exchanged them. The 1st box i got back had serial begining with J3, i got about 85% of those to work. I have opened anorther box today with serial H4 and most of those have very small bluedots, as I have left small flakes on the data side.

I have a feeling that these white flakes are bits of the covering there using for the printable surface. I think Ritek have really let there quality control go, I just hope they improve it before i buy more disks.

Cheers

Ste

Just checked mine from svp and i have both J3 and H4 both are clean as a whistle.

[mrtho]

Cool lets hope ritek have fixed the problem, Still have 50 disks to get rid off