Hello m8s, I have a quick question about my DVDs, they seem to play fine, but I've ran the CD/DVD utility that comes with Nero7 which test disc quality, and I checked two dvds that I have burned one using dvdfab, dvd-rb, imageiso(notsure what its called), then used imgburn to burn it, I got a quality score of 45..which disappoints me because it was high 90s till the end, so then I tried a dvd which I used DVD shrink and Nero to burn, with this dvd I got a quality score of 0, alot of jitters in the end. Am I doing something wrong or is there any tips out there? thx in advance m8s
Hello, What NEC do you have? I have an older 2510 and it has been a workhorse! It will burn most all media, with the exception of TDK. TDK has proven to be some of the worst media I have tried. I would try another media such as Verbatim and see what results you get.
Yes I have been told by the posters on here that TDK is not a very good media(even though I read it was good in another post)..but I know they are not the CMC mag kind so I lucked out with that. I have the NEC ND 3550A in a external. It has been great to me, but I just am wondering the quality of these discs is so bad, they play fine it seems..so does the quality not matter then(nero). Whats the deal guys..is it just my bad media?..
edit: My friend got 2 50 spindle packs of this dvd+r called Nexxus I believe or soemthign similar, he bought them from circuit city when they were on the sale. have you guys heard of this brand/quality..they only costed 9.99 per spindle...i mean they got worth it regardless due to price no? taiyo is at least 30-40 for a spindle..I even paid 30 for my TDK 50pack :(
First of all you used imgburn for the higher score which has no burn engine has ever produced as good of results as it does!
the tdk is manufactured in bulk fast & cheap so in their methods (seemingly) it's likely that some disk's will be alright in a spindle, but w/ the subpar manufacturing specs they can get ugly in the course of a 25 pack!
also shrink is not going to give you the quality back-up that dvd-rb does under any circumstances!
if your shooting for quality scores stick to verbs,or ty's, I've just recently gotten the same drive as you and maxellG05's have done real well by me!
keep your firmware up to date, keep your system resources low when burning and for god sake use imgburn!
the quality of your media is also relative to your burner stand-alone, set-up, and methods so read the posts as a guidance and not in the place of your own observations/experiments!
L8
Quote:My friend got 2 50 spindle packs of this DVD+R called Nexxus I believe or soemthign similar, he bought them from circuit city when they were on the sale. have you guys heard of this brand/quality..they only costed 9.99 per spindle...i mean they got worth it regardless due to price no?
Nexxtech media sold at Circuit City is landfill media. It is made by CMC Mag and another bad mfr. Actually of three mfr of this media CMC Mag rates the best and that does not say much. Here is the review
