For Rbaron and all Slysofters ONLY(haha, yea right),
OK. After reading through all this, I have to say that there is a couple simple solutions you all should know about. But first buy some Sony stock like I have. And of course, these are not the only solution as many will tell you, but you will agree it is SIMPLE.
First, buy a SONY DVD player they can be as low as 59 bucks and up to 1300 bones for the highest end players. The key is that most of Sony's DVD players have a trademarked technology called...are you ready for this?......this will solve ALL the playback problems of scratched, warped, off-balanced, and most importantly burned DVD-Rs for stand-alone players...it's called Sony's Precision Drive 3 System. It's as easy as that and it WORKS! TRUST ME.
The second solution is get a better burner. I use my dinky Vaio laptop's Sony DVD writer and I have had no problems playing the DVDs written from it(I've already burned almost 250 DVD on it!). So either buy any Sony writer or one that other, more tech savvy, guys on this forum recommend as a quality writer.
Also, FYI, I have had CD STOMPER paper labels on ALL my DVDs that go back about 13 months, and they still play perfectly. I started off with Memorex DVD-R 16x, then Sony DVD-R 16x(Japan), then Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 4x(shiny top), then TY DVD-R 4x(inkjet printable), then found out the TY(inkjet printable ONLY) deteriorated after only 4 months, then never bought TY again, and now I am using only Sony DVD-R 16x (Taiwan). The oldest Sony DVD-R(Taiwan) I have is about 9-10 months old and I am reporting no problems with glue deteriorating the movie.
Hope this helped.
Aloha
Well that confused the crap out of me to find out that they are not a good as advertised.
So, what DVD player would all of you on this list buy?
Thanks......
MMM,
Thanks much for the info. I need to update my DVD player because my DVD is also a VHS player. Two in one. I need to update to a single stand alone player.
Anyway, thanks for the tips and I WILL get a new DVD player.
Rich
Yes, we have labels on all our backups. We'll see what peeling them off does. We have about 10 DVD players in the house of varying ages. Sony +/- RW RECORDABLE is the best. However, we bought a new one and discs froze so we returned it and bought one off EBAY that was the same as the one we have that plays most consistent. We put it in the camper so we have one that we can take "on the road" and have some reliability. We use only Sony media and our burner is a sony DRU720A. The running in the background thing is a possibility, but the freeze place is consistent across all copies and in all kinds of different players so that would be wierd. I updated the firmware.
We'll see.
Ok, I went and bought a new Sony DVD player model #DVP-NS75H. I have watched three movies that I have recently ripped with DVDFab Platinum. All three of the movies have a glitch in them. By glitch I mean that the movie stalls for a brief instant then continues. It does not skip to another part of the movie it just stops for a half a second then continues.
I don't know what else to do.
Thanks to all that responded with their suggestions.
I am using the Taiyo Yuden DVD's.
What I do not know how to do is burn the DVD's at 8x speed. I don't know where I would go to do that.
Can you help me find where I can adjust my speed of the burner?
Thanks in advance........