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DGrob wrote on 1/12/2006, 4:04 PM
Submit your problem to Sony Support. It took several weeks, but they resolved my problems with a NEC burner shipped with my new Alienware. Ultimately, I did not have to buy another burner, and my NEC works fine in all applications of DVDA3c.

Purchasing another burner is just fishing in the dark. So many variables, so little time.

Honest, it works. Darryl
impact wrote on 1/14/2006, 7:25 AM
Thanks Darryl,
I'll give it a try.
Jay Serafin wrote on 1/30/2006, 11:13 AM
A lot of Sony DL DVD burners are NOT made by Sony, which is why they will not correctly burn DL DVD+ discs.

The one unit I've found, which works EVERY TIME, is the Benq EW1621. Circuit City carries these. It comes with a separate program which allows for a DVD+ DL disc to be burned as a "DVD-ROM" disc, which all standalone players recognize! I've burned many coasters using store bought Sony brand burners... the disds play fine in the PC they were recorded on, but not in many stand alone decks.

It's a USB 2.0 external, and it's recording techniques match every ISO standard. Works wonderfully, no coasters, and even on the crappiest brand of DL DVD+ media, it will burn the disc correctly so it will play on standalone decks!!! I've seen no other recorder being this flexible in how you can record, nor allowing for "cheap media" to work correctly.

Sony has openly admitted to me, in a support call, that DVD-A 3.0x is "flawed" in properly recording DL discs. They say that the release of DVD-A V4 will cure the known incompatability problems. V4 is in beta testing ow, but the release date is unknown. V4 will also allow many OEM DL burners to work (Sony uses a LOT of these OEM drives, and they can be found in many off-the-shelf PC's). These Sony OEM drives are made by 4 different companies... a Sony U-18A can contain the "innards" from one of the 4 manufacturers, and you don't really know which one you're getting w/o opening it up (and then voiding the warranty!),

Hope this info helps.