DVD-Video burned on Optorite DD0203

[tig2002]

After burning several DVD-Video disks on my Optorite DD0203 burner I noticed the following: some of these disks play very well at the beginning of the movie on standard home DVD player (Samsung C631P) and xBox, but after a while a mosaic garbage appears on the screen more and more often and finally the playback stops because the DVD player won't read the rest of the disk. The same disk plays with no such problem on Optorite. The home DVD player and xBox have no problems reading standard DVD-9 disks throughout the whole movie. The mentioned disks were burned with no errors, although some of them failed data verification in Nero after burning, but played on Optorite. Both Samsung and xBox are compatible with DVD-R media only (will not accept DVD+R), and I used the following media: 1x CompUSA (Optodisk) DVD-R, 1x CompUSA (Princo) DVD-R, 1x Memorex DVD-R (all burned at 2x) and 4x Ritek DVD-R. The weirdest thing is that I burn the same type and brand of media, and one disk plays well up to the end of the movie, the other disk will have the mentioned above problem.

Has anyone experienced this issue? Is this a problem with Optorite (not burning equally inner side of the disk versus outer), or the media? If it is an Optorite, does any Optorite do that or just mine? Has anyone experienced the same thing with other DVD burners?

[Telstar]

The answer to your problem is simple, use better blank media and you do get what you pay for. Generally speaking, the DVD burners have better error correction capability than DVD players, and that's why these discs can be played fine in your computer, but not necessarily in your stand alone players.

I bought 20 CompUSA 1X DVD-R discs made by Optodisc and at least half of them had similar problems of skipping and pixilation on my DVD players. I had to exchange them more than once and eventually got some Princo made discs and they seem to perform better than those Optodisc made discs. As for CompUSA DVD+R discs, they couldn't play in one of my players without pictures breaking up, and eventually become unplayable in another one. Switching to another brand (TDK) easily took care of the problem.

If you still have any doubt, go buy some TDK or Memorex 4X DVD+R discs or Fujifilm 4X DVD-R discs. Use DVD Decryptor to make an ISO image of the disc which has problems on the stand alone players, then burn the ISO image on a higher quality disc, and see for yourself if they will play fine. Just my two cents based on my own experience with these CompUSA discs.

[DonBerg]

Its dependent on both the error correction of the standalone DVD player and the media quality. I find the error correction is better on PC DVD drives, so some DVD players will have problems on the last portion of some discs with marginal media. I had such a problem with only one 4x DVD+R disc on the Optorite out of 15 burned (Memorex brand). On a Panasonic XP30 DVD player that one disc pixelated on what was the last couple files on the disc (outer edge). It read fine with a file compare on the PC DVD drives and also played fine on a different brand DVD player. I made a 2nd copy on another DVD+R disc from the same batch and that one was fine. Perhaps burning at slower 2.4x speed might help on some DVD+R media.