tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13703245.post116767985910863849..comments2023-05-20T06:21:31.447-04:00Comments on Shamino's page: DVD burning - not all media is created equalShaminohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18083421322796364263noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13703245.post-1167749734470557422007-01-02T09:55:00.000-05:002007-01-02T09:55:00.000-05:00The interesting thing is that I've usually had goo...The interesting thing is that I've usually had good luck with no-name CD-R media.<BR/><BR/>I suspect CD-R has been around long enough that CMC (the manufacturer for most of the el-cheapo brands) has been able to improve their process, and drive makers have developed systems to reliably burn to substandard media.<BR/><BR/>This, however, has not been the case with me for DVD.<BR/><BR/>But the interesting thing here is not so much that no-name brands are unreliable, but that they had a 100% failure rate in my high-end drive, while working fine in a much cheaper drive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13703245.post-1167692101287408012007-01-01T17:55:00.000-05:002007-01-01T17:55:00.000-05:00Like you said... no surprise to those who do lots ...Like you said... no surprise to those who do lots of burning. I asked Lisa, who does a lot, and basically she said avoid any of the white-label store brands (such as Staples) and stick with known names. For DVDs, our current stack of good media is Maxell. I do have a stack of el-Cheapo CDs that I use when I want to bring stuff into work and pass around (example: the latest version of Firefox, since I can't download it directly from work).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com