DVD book type change, how too? Didn't see reply and blank media brands
How do you change the booktype? Also those disc had 8x on them.If I buy some more of those I will slow the speed to 4x.
Not really
Most of those are made by Ritek and happen to be B-grade stuff that TDK has dumped on Costcos in North America . . .
Once again, if you're not using Taiyo Yuden (not Valueline), Verbatim, Maxell Plus, or Maxell Broadcast Quality, then chances are you're using junk.
Go through all the steps I listed
I used verbatim dvd-r' for several years, nearly all from Sam's club and have no problem - been through nearly 1000 verbatim dvd-r discs from Sam's Club and have had no issue that wasn't explained by another problem.
Clarification needed on two things - you didn't mention;
Sony dvd-r and dvd+r (several packs of each from Radio Shack bought on the super cheap because the were discontinuing the brand in Radio Shack stores). I have used the dvd-r's and have not caught on to issue on the few that I have been able to watch to date - and have burned on about 20 of them but don't recall watching more than a couple to date - but the few that I have watched played back fine. All Sony brand dvd's seemed to have burned ok - no problems with burning - just not positive about the consistent quality during playback yet - only time will tell (or maybe people in the forum will give me a "heads up", too, before I get around to watching them.) Both 16x
and
Philips dvd-r blanks bought from Micro Center computer store(chain in Washington DC/Alexandria VA area - might be national chain, too - but not sure - big online sales, though). Not burned on them or, obviously played back any, either) - 16x
What is the opinion on these 2 brands - Philips and Sony?
Also - what is the difference in burning on dvd+r versus dvd-r. I thought that I was supposed to "change the book type" to dvd-rom for recording on dvd+r blank media, tried to find this on Clone so that I could change the option, couldn't find where I could change the "book type" in both Clone and Any DVD - then eventually and found that the book type was already set to dvd-rom on AnyDVD. I have never changed the book type - have always used the default settings upon install and update for all of my Slysoft products - but, what does this mean --> book type? I did burn one backup copy of a movie this afternoon using the Sony dvd+r - skimmed through the first 10 minutes of the 1 1/5 hour long film - and it appeared to be playing back w/o a problem - do I need to do anything to ensure that I get consistently good results with dvd+r media? Do I need to make any changes to the settings? Or, can I figure that if I am successfully recording and they seem to be successfully playing back on the few that I have watched completely through and the couple that I have spot checked (yet not have fully watched through) - can I figure or assume that my settings are ok for dvd+r recording - which are also the same that I use for dvd-r backup of movie copies that I make - what do you, the forum experts say about this?
Thank you for your input and guidance on this - lmc
ps - please be patient with me on posting things - don't fully understand how to post on sites - don't know how to do it correctly yet, trying to follow protocol, but I do flub up quite a bit still! :doh: