How Many Burn Cycles out of a DVD RW?

Grazie wrote on 11/29/2009, 12:14 PM
Presently I am up to maybe 30 from a -RW ? I use the same platter to "proof" the workings of the DVD in a STB DVD player going to a BRAVIA.

I really don't get the technology here that allows me to Burn but then I can erase - eh? Anyway, I'm glad I can. However just now I got a glitch on my -RW and I've tested that it is a perfectly performing file to PC-DVD Player too.

So, how many burn cycles are you getting?

Grazie

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ingvarai wrote on 11/29/2009, 12:57 PM
Uncountable. I have used the same TDK now for the last year, bought shortly before Christmas last year. I have no idea how many times, but as I am a video enthusiast, it is really many times. Several each week, and sometimes many a day, even several each hour in my most intense periods.
This is my DVD burner:
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183A ATA Device
I do not remember the brand, and I don't care much. I also have an IDE burner, but sometimes it has refused to burn my DVD. I threw my TDK in the waste bin because if this, only to later discover that the SATA burner would accept it - no prob.
Ingvar
musicvid10 wrote on 11/29/2009, 1:04 PM
Fingerprints are the DVD-RW's arch enemy. If you can keep them pristine they should be good for hundreds of burns. Cleaning one that has become smudged or smeared seems to do no good, although I have cleaned DVD-RAM discs (a different beast) with some success.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/29/2009, 1:21 PM
normally by time 30 or 40 for me I accidentally end up scratching the disc. @ $0.30/disc per R, that's $12 of R's to 1 $2 RW.
Grazie wrote on 11/29/2009, 1:53 PM
Thanks for the reassurances Guys. That was all I was after, and the knowledge that these puppies will take 10s of burns without worry. No, it was this glitch I had had, and thought it best to have any suspicions I had erased.

As it happens, I did a DEEP erase and a re-burn and all is well.

Grazie
Chienworks wrote on 11/29/2009, 3:41 PM
I doubt i've ever cycled one more than a couple dozen times. I never had any issues other than eventual physical damage. Then i picked up a Magnavox DVD recorder on sale for $44 (actually i got two of them). I think i've discovered why they were being dumped so cheap when all the other models were still around $200. I get maybe 5 cycles on a disc before it does ... something ... to the discs and they're ruined. Nothing can touch them after that. My PC's burner can't even do a full erase of them.

Ah well, one of the recorders has died, the other acts like it's not far behind. Ah well, got a refurbed Sylvania model on order. We'll see if that one is any gentler.
ushere wrote on 11/29/2009, 7:40 PM
used to use rw all the time in first, my philips dvd recorder, then my conia, and finally sony. (now i simple record to hd in the sony).

in all this time i've only used the original philips disk, and then the sony that came with the recorders.

only problems i've ever had with the rw's i use in the studio are of human source - scratches, fingerprints, etc., and, of course, erasing material that wasn't meant to be erased - so i rarely use them, but like grazie, i usually burn a test of my finished project before committing it to non-re-rewritable. why, i really don't know since the cost of dvd's is immaterial nowadays....

leslie