Bad Beall Discs from Spring 2003

[verchad]

At the time last year (spring of 2003), I bought a cakebox of 50 samsung beall dvd-r's. They seemed to work well with my panasonic hs2 and my cendyne 104 dvd burner. I had not used all of them. They we're stored in black studio style dvd cases.

Yesterday, I went to use one for a concert recording I made using Easy cd/dvd 6.0 that came with my microadvantage dvd-+r drive. The burn was a "success". I played it and everything was great until the last chapter, then it started to pause and stutter. I took out the disc and made sure it was clean and did not look damaged, it was ok. I tried it in the panny and on my pc and it did the same thing. Disc total was just over 4.3GB. I double checked with dvdinfo and the disc was a beall.

I reburnt the disc image of the concert on a panasonic dvd-r disc I bought yesterday from best buy (10 pack with slim cases for $24.99 - $20 mail in rebate). I played it in my panasonic and on my pc and it was fine.

I know I have read recently that it's coming out that dvd-r may not last as long as previously expected, I am finding this to be true. At the time I bought the bealls, they seemed to have a good rep as long as they were id'ed as bealls by dvdinfo and not some other brand. I'm glad that the media price is coming down, I'm starting to go through media I burned awhile ago to check the programs and the disc manufacturer. None of my panasonic, sony, or ritek discs are bad. I have found a few discs ( Accu, khypermedia, and now beall) that exhibit a few problems. I'm starting to transfer stuff to better branded discs. Fortunately, my important stuff was put mostly on panasonic and ritek discs.

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At the time last year (spring of 2003), I bought a cakebox of 50 samsung beall dvd-r's. They seemed to work well with my panasonic hs2 and my cendyne 104 dvd burner. I had not used all of them. They we're stored in black studio style dvd cases.

Yesterday, I went to use one for a concert recording I made using Easy cd/dvd 6.0 that came with my microadvantage dvd-+r drive. The burn was a "success". I played it and everything was great until the last chapter, then it started to pause and stutter. I took out the disc and made sure it was clean and did not look damaged, it was ok. I tried it in the panny and on my pc and it did the same thing. Disc total was just over 4.3GB. I double checked with dvdinfo and the disc was a beall.

I reburnt the disc image of the concert on a panasonic dvd-r disc I bought yesterday from best buy (10 pack with slim cases for $24.99 - $20 mail in rebate). I played it in my panasonic and on my pc and it was fine.

I know I have read recently that it's coming out that dvd-r may not last as long as previously expected, I am finding this to be true. At the time I bought the bealls, they seemed to have a good rep as long as they were id'ed as bealls by dvdinfo and not some other brand. I'm glad that the media price is coming down, I'm starting to go through media I burned awhile ago to check the programs and the disc manufacturer. None of my panasonic, sony, or ritek discs are bad. I have found a few discs ( Accu, khypermedia, and now beall) that exhibit a few problems. I'm starting to transfer stuff to better branded discs. Fortunately, my important stuff was put mostly on panasonic and ritek discs.

So this BeAll worked fine before and now you have noticed problems towards the end? Is that it? If not, I would suspect a bad disc rather than disc deterioration. BeAlls are not that great and probably have some coasters in their spindles too. I tend to subscribe to LordSmurf's theory that most discs that have "gone bad" were usually pretty bad in the first place or went bad shortly after the burn. Either that or they were kept in the sun or something.

[verchad]

At the time last year (spring of 2003), I bought a cakebox of 50 samsung beall dvd-r's. They seemed to work well with my panasonic hs2 and my cendyne 104 dvd burner. I had not used all of them. They we're stored in black studio style dvd cases.

Yesterday, I went to use one for a concert recording I made using Easy cd/dvd 6.0 that came with my microadvantage dvd-+r drive. The burn was a "success". I played it and everything was great until the last chapter, then it started to pause and stutter. I took out the disc and made sure it was clean and did not look damaged, it was ok. I tried it in the panny and on my pc and it did the same thing. Disc total was just over 4.3GB. I double checked with dvdinfo and the disc was a beall.

I reburnt the disc image of the concert on a panasonic dvd-r disc I bought yesterday from best buy (10 pack with slim cases for $24.99 - $20 mail in rebate). I played it in my panasonic and on my pc and it was fine.

I know I have read recently that it's coming out that dvd-r may not last as long as previously expected, I am finding this to be true. At the time I bought the bealls, they seemed to have a good rep as long as they were id'ed as bealls by dvdinfo and not some other brand. I'm glad that the media price is coming down, I'm starting to go through media I burned awhile ago to check the programs and the disc manufacturer. None of my panasonic, sony, or ritek discs are bad. I have found a few discs ( Accu, khypermedia, and now beall) that exhibit a few problems. I'm starting to transfer stuff to better branded discs. Fortunately, my important stuff was put mostly on panasonic and ritek discs.

So this BeAll worked fine before and now you have noticed problems towards the end? Is that it? If not, I would suspect a bad disc rather than disc deterioration. BeAlls are not that great and probably have some coasters in their spindles too. I tend to subscribe to LordSmurf's theory that most discs that have "gone bad" were usually pretty bad in the first place or went bad shortly after the burn. Either that or they were kept in the sun or something.

These beall's I bought were transferred to black dvd cases in a cool room when I received them last spring. The reason I think it has deteriorated is that I have some other cheaper discs that recorded and played fine at first (kids stuff for my daughter that got played a lot), then 6 months to a year down the road they started exhibiting problems toward the end of the disc. I was under the impression at the time that these particular beall's were okay, however I question that now. I just wanted to let anyone else know that may have bought them back when some people said they were okay to use to check them out, so they don't lose anything important.