Question: Errors DVD+R Ritek 4x

[Jestak]

Greetings,

I did some quick research on the forums and I did not see something that could answer this question:

I bought 3 weeks ago from Supermedia store (Very good place to deal with, by the way) a pack of 50 RITEK DVD+R 4.77 4x printable (White top).

As I always do, I sample through the whole spindle a few DVDs and this time 8 on 8 were returning read errors after the 80% of completion with DVD infopro both on my DVD writer NEC-2500 (Converted from NEC-2100A) and my liteon DVD reader.

However, I play back those DVDs on my home dvd players (2 Panasonics and 1 Samsung) and there were no skipping, freezing or anything bad happening.

Anyone can point out why this situation is occuring?

Thank you
P.S.:By the way, I returned the spindle.

[Gurm]

DVD drives and DVD set-top boxes are tolerant of different kinds of errors in different ways. I've seen CD's that skip like crazy in a CD player, and yet the computer reads them through without blinking and burns a pristine copy out. And vice versa.

The DVD set-top boxes read at 1x. All the time. (Well at 24Mbps or some such, which I guess might translate into 2x, but you get the idea - they're NOT reading at 16x!) Your DVD drive reads at a variable rate. That has a lot to do with it.

Your DVD drive can't read "RAW" discs. In other words, they HAVE to be formatted UDF or ISO or the drive just won't read them. The set-top box doesn't care about formats, it just wants the data to be there.

So they differ in a lot of ways.

But back to your original topic - Ritek isn't what they once were. Taiyo Yuden, Ricoh, Mitsubishi... made in Japan... are the good stuff now.

[mattyboy]

Ritek is still good media. Try using the 8x discs if you can, and maybe stay away from the printable ones.

[Jestak]

Greetings,

Thank you for the answers!

Another question (on the dumb side): Is DVD infopro the best to test dvd media burn quality or is there another software more on the "real" side of the living room type dvd player?

Thank you

[canadateck]

Best way to test is to Play it in the Player and scan the DVD.

[Gurm]

Mattyboy,

What I meant, by way of clarification, is that Ritek +R 4x media isn't what it used to be.