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DON'T USE CHEAP BLANKS!
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28. September 2006 @ 00:00 |
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lol
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JoeRyan
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28. September 2006 @ 19:06 |
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Locoeng--
Thank you. We share more than you may realize...your signature is an Erie Lackawanna heaveyweight passenger train pulled by what looks like a Pacific. Hard to tell from the angle. Am I close?
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29. September 2006 @ 03:30 |
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It's the same locomotive on the cover of the Polar Express I think.
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mackdl
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29. September 2006 @ 07:22 |
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JoeRyan,
I, too, echo the sentiments of Creaky and Locoeng. I have read your posts with great interest and admire your steadfast convictions and vast knowledge of media. You are a valuable assest to AD.
However, due to my own experience with CMCMags, I cannot conscientiously recommend them. I believe many of the members that have been using media for a long time feel the same way.
For myself, I basically stick with ONE brand (code and speed) because I know it works consistently in ALL my family's players. I have to be able to identify it by the packaging and the MIJ label.
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duke8888
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29. September 2006 @ 12:16 |
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Hey Rob I have to dispute with you on the Sony and Maxell's I have just switch to them and been making expensive coasters. My firmware is up to date on my burner and I use Nero 7 and it eats them one after another I went through 400 Memorex and not 1 was a waster. I have bought 200 CompUSA brands 4X and they worked well not a coaster in the bunch. I bought 100 Maxell and 100 Sony and so far out of the 10 Sony;s I have 8 Coasters, on the first 15 of the Maxell I got 7 Coasters. So eaqch medi a is different depending on what software you are using along with the burner.
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29. September 2006 @ 12:29 |
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Nero 7 might have something to do with the problem too. I hear a lot of users trash talking 7 and going back to 6. Personally I've never used 7 and I won't bother trying it until I hear a vast majority singing it's praises.
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29. September 2006 @ 12:31 |
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So eaqch medi a is different depending on what software you are using along with the burner.
Here is the compatability issue.
Good on you for making use of the Memorex...if they worked well why did you make the switch? Also were the Sony's and Maxell's MIJ or MIT? Run this little tool and see what they have to say about who really made your discs:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_..._identifier.cfm
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JoeRyan
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29. September 2006 @ 13:43 |
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Mackdl--
I admire your approach. Many others at AD take the same approach of recommending certain media, and the recommendations of Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are excellent advice. My only objections are to claims others make that certain media are garbage--or worse if a moderator lets the language go by--when the problem may not be that of quality at all. "They don't work for me on my NEC ND-35XX f/w version A.12" is sufficient advice. It's not likely anyone else with that drive will have any luck either. But claiming, "XYZ sux! All the employees are spawn of the devil and should rot in hell for making such freakin' lousy s--t!" is neither helpful nor kind. I try to present the other side of the story because I happen to attend many of the behind-the-scenes meetings and edit or write for many of the institutions that provide reading material AfterDawn suggests its posters read.
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29. September 2006 @ 17:04 |
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I happen to attend many of the behind-the-scenes meetings and edit or write for many of the institutions that provide reading material AfterDawn suggests its posters read.
Well now you have us all hangin on the edge of our seats...which ones?
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30. September 2006 @ 03:24 |
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my job here is to police language (amongst other things), yes, but what i'm NOT here for is to defend media that (for whatever reason) gives the majority of people, problems. If i see a post that's a waste of all of our time, ie a one-liner such as "CMC sucks" then it's a pointless reply and would be dealt with as such; however i'm not here to deny people an opinion on media that has no place near people's burners (even if the reasons the media doesn't work is down to simple basic greed/politics of huge corporations). I aim to be fair and i certainly haunt the DVDR media forum every day, well more than once a day and bad language is always dealt with, but as i say, i can't stop people disliking bad or incompatible media with a passion, many of them have darn good reason for disliking wasting precious time and money on what, to them, is in effect rubbish
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mackdl
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30. September 2006 @ 11:34 |
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If only we lived in a "Perfect World", we don't. Unfortunately, too many manufacturers now make media, drives, and players. Factor that in with computer systems, software, etc. and it becomes an even bigger problem. So all we can do is recommend media/methods that work in the majority of senarios.
Years ago, when my oldest children were young teens, I use to think media was media (cd) and always bought what was on sale. They insisted that I buy only FujiFilm, and stop buying the OfficeDepots as they started skipping after a short while. The OD's did burn and play just fine at the the beginning. Guess what? The Fujis were TYs and the ODs were CMCMag. The dyes were definitely different, and the Fujis were also more scratch resistant. Yes, the latter could have been a factor in the longevity, they didn't exactly take the best of care of their originals or their copies. That said, it does appear to me that the differences in cd media has carried on with dvd media.
In conclusion, as a consumer, I would have to say "Media is not created equal", and there lies the greatest problem.
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