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I just bought Sony 8X DVD-Rs, and when I try to record on them, I get this response:


Illegal disc
NEC DVD_RW ND 1300A
Could not perform start of Disc-at-once
Burn process failed at 2.4x (3,324 KB/s)

I also get this message when trying to burn at other speeds (2x, 1x and "maximum").

Just yesterday, I was able to play a Sony 8x DVD-R disc that was burned in someone else's computer.

Why would my NEC play a Sony DVD-R, but not record on them? Is it that my NEC can play, but not record on Sonys, or did I just end up with a bad batch of discs?

Note: These Sonys usually sell at Staples for $13.98 (or $14.98) for a ten pack, but these are marked down to $8.98 (with an additional $4 taken off at the register, for a total of $4.98 plus tax), which means that Staples was very eager to get rid of them.

gm2015 wrote:I just bought Sony 8X DVD-Rs, and when I try to record on them, I get this response:


Illegal disc
NEC DVD_RW ND 1300A
Could not perform start of Disc-at-once
Burn process failed at 2.4x (3,324 KB/s)

I also get this message when trying to burn at other speeds (2x, 1x and "maximum").

Just yesterday, I was able to play a Sony 8x DVD-R disc that was burned in someone else's computer.

Why would my NEC play a Sony DVD-R, but not record on them? Is it that my NEC can play, but not record on Sonys, or did I just end up with a bad batch of discs?

Note: These Sonys usually sell at Staples for $13.98 (or $14.98) for a ten pack, but these are marked down to $8.98 (with an additional $4 taken off at the register, for a total of $4.98 plus tax), which means that Staples was very eager to get rid of them.

I doubt your 1300A (4X+/-R?) can handle those 8X -R discs. Anyway, is 2.4X a speed for -R discs? AFAIK, only 2X, 4X and 1X exist?

Some drives can do 2.4x (or even 2.5x!) on DVD-R/RWs. The BenQ DW1620 and DW1640 are good examples

I wondered about that 2.4x speed, but Nero gave me the option to burn those DVD-Rs at that speed. It didn't work, though.

Shouldn't my 4x NEC 1300A be able to handle those discs at 4x or less?
I couldn't burn them even at 1x.

My 4x NEC 1300A can burn to Maxell's 8x discs. Not at the maximum speed, of course, but I can copy to them at 2x.

dolphinius_rex wrote:Some drives can do 2.4x (or even 2.5x!) on DVD-R/RWs. The BenQ DW1620 and DW1640 are good examples

One of the 8xx-series supports also 2,4 on DVD-RW, but burns it unreadbale.

I mean that Toshiba supports 2,5 instead of 2,4x

I buy a lot of Fuji DVD+R 8X YUDENT000 T02 @ www.cdrvierge.com for my friends and I these late days and there was stamped on the box : made in Japan, packaged in China. This is for the "cost" explanation.

(In Europe, I confirm that these Fuji are excellent : max PIF = 4 on my BenQ 1620Pro B7V9 in most case and scans are fluently good.)

ItalianJob wrote:I buy a lot of Fuji DVD+R 8X YUDENT000 T02 @ www.cdrvierge.com for my friends and I these late days and there was stamped on the box : made in Japan, packaged in China. This is for the "cost" explanation.

(In Europe, I confirm that these Fuji are excellent : max PIF = 4 on my BenQ 1620Pro B7V9 in most case and scans are fluently good.)

Only Taiyo Yuden's lowest grade and value line discs are normally packaged in China. Usually those discs must be sold as 4x DVDRs, as that is all that Taiyo Yuden certifies them for

dolphinius_rex wrote:Only Taiyo Yuden's lowest grade and value line discs are normally packaged in China. Usually those discs must be sold as 4x DVDRs, as that is all that Taiyo Yuden certifies them for

But T02 are 8x-certified, I think?

Scour wrote:

dolphinius_rex wrote:Only Taiyo Yuden's lowest grade and value line discs are normally packaged in China. Usually those discs must be sold as 4x DVDRs, as that is all that Taiyo Yuden certifies them for

But T02 are 8x-certified, I think?

Actually, I don't think Taiyo Yuden has their T02 code certified, no need to. But all TAIYO YUDEN certifies their Value Pak media for is 4x.

Dolphinus: You'll be interested to know that tonight, I burned a Fuji TY CDR and had some real problems with it. It was an audio CD that didn't play properly on the last track. I used CD Speed to check it and here's what I got:

C2 errors:

Maximum: 4113
Average: 54.37
Total: 250370


All of the errors occurred in the last few minutes of the disc. I've never got numbers this bad before, and the transfer test was just as bad.

"I doubt your 1300A (4X+/-R?) can handle those 8X -R discs. Anyway, is 2.4X a speed for -R discs? AFAIK, only 2X, 4X and 1X exist?"

Bhairav:

I'm fairly new to DVD burning, so maybe I'm misundertanding you. Are you suggesting that once the 8x discs become prevalent, and the 4x discs start disppearing from stores, I might have a hard time finding DVDRs that I can use with my NEC 1300A (which is only a little more than a year old)?

gm2015 wrote:Dolphinus: You'll be interested to know that tonight, I burned a Fuji TY CDR and had some real problems with it. It was an audio CD that didn't play properly on the last track. I used CD Speed to check it and here's what I got:

C2 errors:

Maximum: 4113
Average: 54.37
Total: 250370


All of the errors occurred in the last few minutes of the disc. I've never got numbers this bad before, and the transfer test was just as bad.

"I doubt your 1300A (4X+/-R?) can handle those 8X -R discs. Anyway, is 2.4X a speed for -R discs? AFAIK, only 2X, 4X and 1X exist?"

Bhairav:

I'm fairly new to DVD burning, so maybe I'm misundertanding you. Are you suggesting that once the 8x discs become prevalent, and the 4x discs start disppearing from stores, I might have a hard time finding DVDRs that I can use with my NEC 1300A (which is only a little more than a year old)?

Yes. I think so.. it's contingent on the drive manufacturers to include support for newer media on older drives, and instead of spending time writing new FW to recognise the newer higher speed media, they'll just move on with the development of new drives.

gm2015 wrote:Dolphinus: You'll be interested to know that tonight, I burned a Fuji TY CDR and had some real problems with it. It was an audio CD that didn't play properly on the last track. I used CD Speed to check it and here's what I got:

C2 errors:

Maximum: 4113
Average: 54.37
Total: 250370


All of the errors occurred in the last few minutes of the disc. I've never got numbers this bad before, and the transfer test was just as bad.

I can't say I'm surprised.... Fuji's TY media has a good probability of sucking lately

dolphinius_rex wrote:
But T02 are 8x-certified, I think?

Actually, I don't think Taiyo Yuden has their T02 code certified, no need to. But all TAIYO YUDEN certifies their Value Pak media for is 4x.

Certified by who ? By TY themselves YES.
The media is not approved by Philips if your talking about that.

About packageing.
More as the value line is packaged in china. However I agree that for non branded media CHINA is the place for VALUE LINE.

About FUJI.The problem is the variance. You can have a excellent pack and next a quite crap pack. Really in the past TY was guaranteed quality however with the huge fluctuations in FUJI (and in some other media) and with the fact of licensing there code to disc's which perform even worse as FUJI. (Okay that's still not completely official.)
I think I can not longer recommend TY.
Looks like it's back to the old days and I will just recommend brands. Because manufacturer codes seem to say even less about quality and support.

That's quite something, rjw.

What would be in your opinion reliable brands now in the EU market (dvd-r or dvd+r, take your pick)?

I've been very happy with Plextor DVD+R discs (several batches) myself.

However, I'm starting to see variance (or at least a bit too many unsuccessful burns) with Mitsubishi (MCC 03RG20) DVD-R 16x discs (made in taiwan) that are available in EU. Nothing alarming, but just that 8x (and of course 16x) burns can fail on modern burners that have official support for these discs. When burns work, they scan quite well in six different drives (diff puh, diff chipset, diff transport).

regards,
halc

I'm going to have to agree with RJW. There is more and more crap Taiyo Yuden on the market, and it's frustrating.

RJW wrote:

dolphinius_rex wrote:
But T02 are 8x-certified, I think?

Actually, I don't think Taiyo Yuden has their T02 code certified, no need to. But all TAIYO YUDEN certifies their Value Pak media for is 4x.

Certified by who ? By TY themselves YES.
The media is not approved by Philips if your talking about that.

About packageing.
More as the value line is packaged in china. However I agree that for non branded media CHINA is the place for VALUE LINE.

About FUJI.The problem is the variance. You can have a excellent pack and next a quite crap pack. Really in the past TY was guaranteed quality however with the huge fluctuations in FUJI (and in some other media) and with the fact of licensing there code to disc's which perform even worse as FUJI. (Okay that's still not completely official.)
I think I can not longer recommend TY.
Looks like it's back to the old days and I will just recommend brands. Because manufacturer codes seem to say even less about quality and support.

About TY packaging in China,I think are rumours or fake TY.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php ... utsourcing


About TY quality :

Never bought bad batch Fuji TY media from various (and serious) sources in Europe.-In all media brands, happened variance of media quality .Always huge production of each media ,cause the possibility of fluctuations .This is normal !

-The manafucturer's problem is to control this,less or max. depends on it's reputation-In other side ,each factory pressed by each order of OEM production, for cost and time of availibilty-In advance of these, each factory ,must sell all bad control media (usually as B' Grade) -So there is not any exception for a brand like Fuji .-So if you want quality media ,take care of trade combination of Manafacturer/Brand/retailer.

Fuji,Sony,Plextor,Verbatim still best TY choice

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?d ... N000T02%20

Halc wrote:However, I'm starting to see variance (or at least a bit too many unsuccessful burns) with Mitsubishi (MCC 03RG20) DVD-R 16x discs (made in taiwan) that are available in EU. Nothing alarming, but just that 8x (and of course 16x) burns can fail on modern burners that have official support for these discs. When burns work, they scan quite well in six different drives (diff puh, diff chipset, diff transport).

regards,
halc

16x are max. speed limit of DVD media booktype
Doesn't mean quality burn as in lower speed.

I just wanted to chime in here and say that I've always had very good luck with Fuji's TY media. Both CD-R and DVD+R/-R.

I haven't seen the "Packaged in China" label yet. Anyone have a picture?

Gary Kokkin wrote:About TY packaging in China,I think are rumours or fake TY.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php ... utsourcing

They are not rumours, and it is not fake. It is 100% fact. How do I know? Because my boxes of Japanese Taiyo Yuden 4x DVD-Rs come with "Packaged in China" stamped on them. And it only happens with Value Line products from Taiyo Yuden. And no, my Taiyo Yuden's are not fake.

Gary Kokkin wrote:About TY quality :

Never bought bad batch Fuji TY media from various (and serious) sources in Europe.-In all media brands, happened variance of media quality .Always huge production of each media ,cause the possibility of fluctuations .This is normal !

-The manafucturer's problem is to control this,less or max. depends on it's reputation-In other side ,each factory pressed by each order of OEM production, for cost and time of availibilty-In advance of these, each factory ,must sell all bad control media (usually as B' Grade) -So there is not any exception for a brand like Fuji .-So if you want quality media ,take care of trade combination of Manafacturer/Brand/retailer.

Fuji,Sony,Plextor,Verbatim still best TY choice

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?d ... N000T02%20

There is much more involved with it then that. There's huge amounts of politics involved as well, among other things.

Ian wrote:I haven't seen the "Packaged in China" label yet. Anyone have a picture?

I'm curious too....

I took some lovely photo's for you on my cell phone. When I get home I'll upload them to my PC and then put them online here.

dolphinius_rex wrote:
They are not rumours, and it is not fake. It is 100% fact. How do I know? Because my boxes of Japanese Taiyo Yuden 4x DVD-Rs come with "Packaged in China" stamped on them. And it only happens with Value Line products from Taiyo Yuden. And no, my Taiyo Yuden's are not fake.

Can you post how identified your unbranded TY media if their genuine ? (except a simple label mentioned MIJ)

Gary Kokkin wrote:

dolphinius_rex wrote:
They are not rumours, and it is not fake. It is 100% fact. How do I know? Because my boxes of Japanese Taiyo Yuden 4x DVD-Rs come with "Packaged in China" stamped on them. And it only happens with Value Line products from Taiyo Yuden. And no, my Taiyo Yuden's are not fake.

Can you post how identified your unbranded TY media if their genuine ? (except a simple label mentioned MIJ)

What do you want me to tell you?

They are Value Line 4x DVD-Rs, with TYG02 code. They have the proper GGxxxxxxx style serial number. They come 600pcs to a box, 33,600pcs to a pallet, and 235,200pcs to a minimum order for a distributor (roughly 4 times that in a container). They are purchased from the largest legitimate distributor of Taiyo Yuden in North America (who I will *NOT* name), who supplies a lot of the bigger online webstores in the US.

But if you prefer, I could just mail a spindle of them to Taiyo Yuden USA, and phone up my rep there and ask them if they mind me recording the phone call where she tells me that they have thouroughly tested the product and discovered that it actually *IS* their Taiyo Yuden 4x DVD-R Value Line series.

Or would my word on this suffice? (if it helps, one of the pics I took with my cell phone is of an unbroken pallet of this media, then of a box on that pallet, and then of the label on that box).

dolphinius_rex wrote:
They are Value Line 4x DVD-Rs, with TYG02 code. They have the proper GGxxxxxxx style serial number.

Genuine 4x TY DVD-Rs always have TYG01 code !

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?d ... List+Media


All fake media found,usually rated 8x and most of them are DVD-R ,with TYG02 code !- Package lools ok ,but it's easy a company write cheat info.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=112854