I keep a log of my blank DVD burning and later playbacks, as it was envisaged some time back in many "technical magazines" that there may be future problems.
Okay, to date I have found problems with only one brand out of about five different ones.
I have seven different playback sources, three internal DVD computer drives and four domestic machines.
Only one domestic machine is Sony, the others including three computer drives are all Pioneer, all units kept clean and in good serviceable condition. The latest machine is a Pioneer DV-989AVi.
I guess luckily, I only ever bought about 50 of the above RiDATA blanks and they were all purchased and burnt during mid to late 2003.
All resulting recordings were checked at the time and played back fairly often over the next 12 months or so and were faultless in any of my equipment.
I then had very regular overseas travel between 2004 and now and really put nearly all DVD's to one side, where they have been stored in a cool dust and humidity free location.
Sorry for the long winded story but I wanted to be as accurate as possible.
Now, virtually all of these RiDATA DVD's will only play in one machine, a Pioneer, Asian / Australian model DV-490V, a 'cheapie'.
No other machine including the computer drives will even try to open them and in many cases, spit them out.
Would really appreciate some advice if these faulty discs can be rescued (X-Copy Rescue also won't look at them)
Is there a computer drive available these days which is quite versatile with touchy discs?
I figure there must be some way, seeing that the Pio. DV-490V seems to find enough data to do something with.
your probably out of luck you could try using dvd decrypter ISO read ISO write and see if that work. what you have is called dye rot which happens on less expensive blank media. use either Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim from here on out.
Thankyou for your response.
I guess I thought that seeing the cheapie home Pioneer player still plays these faulty discs with no problem at all, there may be an internal DVD drive that handles a wide variety of questionable discs.
I've found that my old X-Copy Rescue still works well once an internal drive will accept a disc on load.
These faulty Ridata's won't even load in anything other than 490V Pio!
use better media from here on out (Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim) and you won't have this problem anymore. hopefully you can copy some of them with X-Copy Rescue to newer blank media
Personally I've had good luck with RiData discs, but they seem to work better on some burners, namely Pioneer and Plextor. They don't seem to like NEC drives. I've had a few problems with the older 4x discs, but only because I overburned them (back when I was new to this) and they eventually degraded. Your best bet is to stick with the 8x discs, as they are more reliable than the 16x versions and can be purchased for around $.25 each. I like TY's better but I need clear coat discs, and unfortunately TY's shiny discs stick together too much to be useful to me, so I use Ritek/RiData.
At least you got 1 player recognizing those ridata's.
If all your pc drives don't recognize them,then they won't be able to reback them up. I've got 5 different dvd-rw drives ready to rip,and a few others I can get a hold of.If you want to send me a couple,pm me. I'll send them back to you. I've done it for a few members in the past.
