Putting Labels on DVD-R's-will they really cause problems???

[Super Warrior]

Okay i just recently bought some decent generic looking Princo DVD-Rs from www.allmediaoutlet.com

I paid $38 for a 50-Pack: http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/P-DVDR-4.7-GENPrinco.html

Now so far i've only burned 2 of them,on my Pioneer DVR-104 drive.I used The latest Nero burning rom under the "DVD-Video" compliation.They burned fine at 1x only and played great in my Apex ad-1500 player.

Now a while back i saw a topic on here with several members,complaining that putting labels onto DVD-Rs will screw up playback and or ruin them.I've just finished applying some plain White TDK labels.And after test playing,the two newly labeled DVD-Rs still work great.

Now i've only tried this with the princo DVD-Rs i have and it seems okay.Is there something i don't know? Is there some other brand out there thats affected more by labels? Seems all this talk of labels affecting DVD-Rs was just silly....

[Tommyknocker]

I think the jury is still out with DVD-Rs. I do know when you label CD-Rs, they work fine at first, then later on, problems start.

[Super Warrior]

I think the jury is still out with DVD-Rs. I do know when you label CD-Rs, they work fine at first, then later on, problems start.

Naaa Thats even crazier thinking than the DVD-R stuff.

I have many VCDs on CD-Rs and i labeled them all with the same white labels.They've always worked great.

[letgoofmyears]

Yeah, I print up full-bleed, full-color labels for all of my DVDs, and I haven't had any problems. I use the cheapest generic disks I can find, because my Apex players will play anything. But they have had problems on other players.

[cchitson11]

OK there is a big problem with these labels especial if you us e the disc alot. The heat from the Dvd/Cd paly will case the glue on the label to start to break down and the label will to peel up. You know what kind of damage a label hanging of a disc can do to a player. This personaly happend to me, that's when I decided to go back to the trusty sharpie. The disc will also no spin evenly if the label is no aligned right. I had one disk that sounded like a chainsaw when it was spinning. I would advise against the labels

[gobama]

I have a label on my backup of "Eye See You." It plays with no problem, but Fear Dot Com and Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me liked to freeze about 15-20 minutes into the movie. So I've went back to the old felt-tip marker and it works all the time.

[solarfox]

This is one of those "holy war" arguments that's destined to rage without end, apparently.

All I can say is that I, personally, have always labeled my CD-R's, and have been doing so for at least seven years now, without any problems at all. This is through five different burners (a Philips 2X, a Plextor 4X, an LG 12x8x32, an LG 16x10x40 (two PC's, two drives ) and the Teac-containing CD-RW module for my Latitude-C laptop ), multiple brands of discs ranging from expensive Sony to cheap GQ, and on quite a large variety of CD-ROM drives and audio-CD players.

I have also been labeling my DVD-R's for over a year. The discs have played perfectly fine in the Apex, Sony, and Toshiba DVD players owned by me and my friends. They also play fine in the various Oritron, Minitek, Magnavox, Philips, Sony, Apex, Toshiba, and Panasonic players (and probably other brands I've forgotten about) that I tested them in at Fry's the last time I went shopping for a DVD player about a month ago.

I, personally, consider this pretty comprehensive evidence that the practice of labeling discs is not hazardous. Then again, I do tend to stick with a good quality brand of disc, such as TDK or Apple, and I haven't been patching my Pioneer A-04's firmware to force 2X burning on media not certified for it. (I am also, thanks to habits acquired during my vinyl-LP days, very careful in how I handle my discs when they're out of the cases...)

[DVantrease]

I had labelled a music CD-R which I kept in my car for my car stereo. After about 8 months I popped it in the car stereo one day and it played fine but I could not get it to eject for 2 days! I eventually found this was due to the label coming up in one spot on the edge. I live in Buffalo, NY and I'm sure the extreme temperature changes was a contributing factor. I've never had this problem with cd's I keep indoors at all times.

[Super Warrior]

OK there is a big problem with these labels especial if you us e the disc alot. The heat from the Dvd/Cd paly will case the glue on the label to start to break down and the label will to peel up. You know what kind of damage a label hanging of a disc can do to a player. This personaly happend to me, that's when I decided to go back to the trusty sharpie. The disc will also no spin evenly if the label is no aligned right. I had one disk that sounded like a chainsaw when it was spinning. I would advise against the labels

Well i've got the little CD stomper that allows near-perfect alignment for the label.So i've never have that problem.As for the labels stability.I've used my particual brand of labels on all the CD-R/Music CD/VCD stuff i've done in the past.And never once had a problem of that kind.

So i find it kinda hard to believe that my labels will work fine on any CD-R,but somehow mess up DVD-Rs if i apply them.

The only thing i can think of.Is that maybe more heat is generated from a player reading a DVD-R than a CD-R/VCD.So then probabley the extra bit of heat might mess things up....

Or it could all just depend on the quality of your labels.If you use cheap-o labels that fall apart from a little heat,then you'll get problems.But if you use high quality labels,perhaps you won't have any problems at all.

[bugster]

About all that can be said about this issue with any real certainty is, label your disks at your own risk. Chances are everything will be perfectly fine but if anything does go wrong, not only could you severley damage or destroy the disc, you could do the same to the player.

[Super Warrior]

Okay i've thought about it over and over and just can't seem to see any really good reason why labeling DVDs will mess them up.

One person in this topic mentioned that heat generated from playing the DVD will cause the labels glue to release&flop.But i've been labeling every CD-R/VCD i've made for years now and nothing of that sort has ever occured no matter how much i played them.

And i highly doubt the heat generated from playing a DVD-R is that much greater than a CD-R. I've already labeled two DVD-Rs so far and they still work fine,even after playing them continuely for over two hours.

So i guess i'm going with the labels.I'd rather not have to write on my DVD-Rs with a crappy sharpie marker if i don't have too.Cause it looks fuggly after,especially if i screw up while writeing it.At least with a label if i mess up on writeing the name i can just throw it away and get it right on the second label before applying it to the disc.I prefer the neatness of labels.

[Tommyknocker]

I prefer the neatness of labels as well, but I lost some very precious video by trusting a labeled CD-R. Now I only use the CD hub or core labels now, as I am taking no chances.

[Cole]

The only time that I ever had any problems with CD-R labels becoming unstuck from a VCD during play was on a particular brand of CD-R.

What the problem was is that the CD-R had a wattled pattern stamped onto it which covered about a third of the CD, containing the branded logo. The label became unstuck during play ON THAT PART OF THE CD ONLY.

Any of my CD-Rs that have a plain (or smooth) top, there has been no problem at all.