OT: Burning 8x media

farss wrote on 3/31/2006, 4:50 AM
Maybe everyone knows this and I've just been 'away' for too long.
Just opened another spindle of TY 8x DVDs and there's a little piece of paper in their with printing that needs a microscope to read.
It says, in brief, you can't burn these disks is burners not designed to the new DVD-R spec and suggests going to www.dvdhs.com which doesn't tell you much apart from lots of links to the various burner manufacturers websites.
However checking through my old but very good Sony DRU 500 technical support pages they do not say it suitable for burning 8x media, in fact the specifically say it will not reliably burn DVD-RW 4x media so the info isn't hopelessly out of date.
This kind of freaks me out, my understanding was that the new high speed media, at least in theory, was compatible with the older 4x burners. I say in theory because I know a few of us have been having issues, and recently we've discovered that the new 8x DVD+R media will not burn in our older STB DVD recorders.

Anyone else know any more about this?
Should I be replacing all my 4x burners?

Bob.

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apit34356 wrote on 3/31/2006, 5:28 AM
Bob, I had to replace the older 4x and 8x DVD Sony burners. I updated the firmware in all the old units, but failure rates remain high. These burners was just for simple storage recordings on DVDs. I suspect the write mechs was being coming unstable.

The new recorders work great with about any media! But I do not mass produce video DVDs, so my expierence is limited.
riredale wrote on 3/31/2006, 6:39 AM
I think the "high speed" they are referring to is when everyone made the jump from 2x to 4x, back about 4 years ago, and there were instances where one of the "new" 4x blanks would fry your 2x burner unless it had a firmware upgrade. Remember?

I could be wrong but I recall that there were cautions all over the place.
farss wrote on 3/31/2006, 1:25 PM
Nope,
this is specifically about burning 8x media in 4x drives.

Still, burners are so damn cheap these days ( less than the price of a spindle of disks) I think I'll replace them anyway.


Bob.