blastus
September 9th, 2006, 08:58 PM
I just bought an LG GSA-H10N burner and have burnt about 30 DVD-RW RiData and Fujifilm DVD+R/DVD+R DL DVDs. I have already experienced reliability and compatibility problems such as:
- One DVD-RW burnt DAO can be read in my DVD burner but not in a friend's DVD burner (that is DVD-RW compatible)...WTF!
- One DVD-RW that has been rewritten a few times can now only burn at 1x maximum...WTF!
- At least two DVD-RW failed burns
- At least one DVD+R failed burn
- At least one DVD+R DL failed burn
So that's a 20% (6/30) *failure* rate. I remember when CD burners came out. I bought a Ricoh burner (supposedly one of the best in the market) in 1999 for about $300. That stupid burner would burn coasters left and right. Burning CDs back then was a crap shoot and you could only burn at extremely low speeds. My experience with first or second generation CD burning was one of the main reasons why I put off getting a DVD burner for so long.
CD burning is very reliable now. I haven't burnt a single coaster or incompatible CD in years in several different CD burners and I've burns tons of CDs. I think that it will take two to three more years before DVD burner manufacturers, DVD media manufacturers and whoever else is involved to get their crap together and provide a reliable DVD burning solution. Until then I guess we have to put up with the mess they have created.
- One DVD-RW burnt DAO can be read in my DVD burner but not in a friend's DVD burner (that is DVD-RW compatible)...WTF!
- One DVD-RW that has been rewritten a few times can now only burn at 1x maximum...WTF!
- At least two DVD-RW failed burns
- At least one DVD+R failed burn
- At least one DVD+R DL failed burn
So that's a 20% (6/30) *failure* rate. I remember when CD burners came out. I bought a Ricoh burner (supposedly one of the best in the market) in 1999 for about $300. That stupid burner would burn coasters left and right. Burning CDs back then was a crap shoot and you could only burn at extremely low speeds. My experience with first or second generation CD burning was one of the main reasons why I put off getting a DVD burner for so long.
CD burning is very reliable now. I haven't burnt a single coaster or incompatible CD in years in several different CD burners and I've burns tons of CDs. I think that it will take two to three more years before DVD burner manufacturers, DVD media manufacturers and whoever else is involved to get their crap together and provide a reliable DVD burning solution. Until then I guess we have to put up with the mess they have created.