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Does anyone know why I can't burn anything onto DVD-R's?

 

Whenever I try the disc tray just opens and I get a message along the lines of please enter a blank disc...

 

these are all brand new discs. I use Recordnow on XP.

 

A friend suggested that I use DVD+R's - would this help and what's the difference?

 

:confused::rant:

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Originally posted by spook

Does anyone know why I can't burn anything onto DVD-R's?

 

Whenever I try the disc tray just opens and I get a message along the lines of please enter a blank disc...

 

these are all brand new discs. I use Recordnow on XP.

 

A friend suggested that I use DVD+R's - would this help and what's the difference?

 

:confused::rant:

 

Not sure on what the differance is between + and - , but most burners normally burn both types, however the b*gger is, what is your DVD Player - "-" or +? As, if you have bought the wrong type then they won't play...

 

Alex

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Do you know the brand, type and version of your DVD burner...

 

It's entirely possible you have a DVD+R format drive so -R type disks won't work...

 

The good news is that if you really need DVD+/-R or RAM disks there's plenty of drives out there now that are around £45... Although you obviously want to try and avoid the expense if you can...

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Originally posted by amhudson119

Apparently, DVD-R doscs are better...?

Well they are generally a faster format when it comes to writing... Most drives will write a DVD-R disk at double the speed of a +R disk...

 

As for the speeds on drives... in most cases the drivers have a theoretical speed that current media hasn't quite reached yet...

 

For example... DVD-R disks are currently available at 8 speed but I've yet to see any 16 speed disks even though there are drives out that say they can do it... It's something to take with a pinch of salt and it helps to check reviews and for a manufacturers track records in supplying firmware updates...

 

Actually on that note...ebuyer is a good place to check for comments on compatability with certain media types... Lord knows there's plenty of cases where a drive "looks" good but turns out shed loads of "coasters"...

 

The old rule of thumb.. careful research can save you a lot of heartache later on...

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as far as discs go, ive tried maybe 10 different brands, just buy the cheapest if you have trouble move on.

 

you dont need to buy a pack of 15 sonys for rip off price, buy infiniti discs instead.

 

oh and it seems disc / player compatablility changes from player to player so you can read conflicting things about what discs are good or not. i purchased some highly rated discs becuase i wanted a higher sucess rate, they were worst i had.

 

find out your model number for your recorder and your disc type. also i had to try different programs to copy. finally settling on easy cd/dvd creator. nero and others were poor for my player.

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OK, first off to find what drive you've got you can either try and find out via windows hardware, or a little program that I will send you if you like (sent you a PM)

 

although, if you using Record Now Max then it should say the drive and its current firmware at the side where it shows the drives :)

 

as for media, a lot of the media being sold is crap, and dont buy from Dixons and PC World and stuff cus they con the hell out of you...

 

the reason DVD-R is more popular than DVD+R is mainly due to the difference in writing format, DVD+R's need a bookmark type thing, which is hard to hack when people are making region free firmware... therefore people who get heavy into copying DVD's dislike DVD+R's as they cant be written to on a region free drive... thus they slowly got phased out...

 

as for media I highly reccomend http://www.svp.co.uk nearly all the media I use is Datawrite, 4x yellow discs used in my old drive cus I have some left over... and 8x Datawrite grey's in my current drive...

 

I highly reccomend Datawrite grey 8x's, they are extremly reliable, I've got through 400+ of them and have only had one coaster due to a bad write!

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