I finally got my dvds to work!!! It appears it was a lens problem on my standalone player. The only thing I'm finding a little irritating is that I have to put the dvd cleanser (cd)in before inserting my backup and then making sure the dvd has a very clean bottom as to be read. This did the trick, but it appears its every time. What bothers me is how to improve the lens on the standalone and how long will this method work. Any comments would be appreciated.
Huuuummmmm, well, considering that an electronics tech will charge about $70.00(USD) + Parts to fix your player and a new one can be had for about $39.00(USD) - Unless you can do it yourself, when your "work-around" finally fails, it looks like -
"a shopping we will go, A Shopping we will go, Hi - Ho a-dairy-o, a shopping we will go -"
Yea, I heard you, "Hey ScubaPete, don't give up your day job."
Can you tell me why original dvd movies play on my player with no problem, but when I play a dvd-r 8x verbatim backup, I have to clean the player and disc first. Does that make any sense? If its a quality issue, how do I find a similiar quality for my dvd-r's?
That's an easy question, wish they were all that easy -
Your original DVD video has been pressed into the disc whereas your DVD backup was burned into the disc ?
The media you?re using, Verbatim 8X, +R, is very new stuff, Your player?s firmware doesn?t have it listed, that?s a fact -
My first suggestion, burn at a lower speed when doing DVD backups. Even though my Pioneer can burn at X8 ? I never go over X4, AND if I?m doing on the fly copying disc to disc, I lower it to X2.4. Far less chance of errors that way. You might try using a laser cleaner disc too. my last shot - 2 years is a pretty long time ago for DVD standalones - check your media compatibility - perhaps your player only plays -R media and you are burning +R media - can't tell - check your player here ?
scubapete, I have actually been following your instructions as before. Eventhough i have 8x dvd-r's, I have been recording at 2.4x (as to make sure video is securely burned). I have had success every single time. What I am puzzled on is the difference between burning and pressing. What is involved in pressing? And is it possible for a regular consumer like me to do it? If it would produce better quality I am all for it. Let me know.
jeff9756 ,
Pressing involves taking 2 layers and fusing them together. The 1st layer is 4.7 gb and the 2nd layer is 3.8 gb. You have to have a master tape of the project you want pressed . You can do it if you want to spend major $$$$ on the equipment. Why do that if you can burn the DVD and achieve almost the same quality. W/ the advent of the D/L burner you will be able to make a 1 to 1 copy of the original project.
When Mike mentioned "Major $$$$" - he wasn't talking abour $1.99, $19.9 or even $199.99 - He was refering to - more like 19,999.99 - and that's without any master -
That might take care on an extremely small setup -
