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Good quality, mid-priced discs, made by CMC Magnetics in Taiwan

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Originally posted by Amir89:

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No they certainly aren't good.
CMC-MAG's are the lowest of the low. Avoid those three letters your whole life (C-M-C).

Your backups probably aren't looking as good as the originals because they are compressed. You can't fit a DVD9 onto a DVD5, without removing any extras and expect the quality to be the same, which is most likely what your doing.
Even though the compression ratio is "Green", the video files may still be compressed somewhat, try burning to Dual Layer DVDs (8.5Gb) if you want to keep everything intact and still have the same quality.

Also, get some better media. (Verbatim, Sony, etc...)

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Originally posted by rick6668:

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Followed this writeup
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I didn't remove anything with DVD shrink because it showed green and would all fit on a DVD. The quality of the new DVD is not as good as the original. Why??? I thought it would be the same.

Thanks

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Originally posted by rick6668:

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Originally posted by Amir89:

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No they certainly aren't good.
CMC-MAG's are the lowest of the low. Avoid those three letters your whole life (C-M-C).

Your backups probably aren't looking as good as the originals because they are compressed. You can't fit a DVD9 onto a DVD5, without removing any extras and expect the quality to be the same, which is most likely what your doing.
Even though the compression ratio is "Green", the video files may still be compressed somewhat, try burning to Dual Layer DVDs (8.5Gb) if you want to keep everything intact and still have the same quality.

Also, get some better media. (Verbatim, Sony, etc...)

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Thanks for your very helpful post!

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