This one has me stumped. I understand that some DVD players are compatible with some media, but not others. I understand that some DVD burners are compatible with some media, but not others. But how about this:
I've been using TDK DVD-R's for a few months now, rendering, preparing, and burning projects under DVDA without issue. Has worked flawlessly on PC and in two DVD players. Then my wife bought me three packs of TDK DVD+R's.
Although DVD seems to accept them without complaint and burn projects to them, the resulting discs are unreadable by anything I put them in -- DVD players and DVDROM drives alike. My DVD player just reads and reads and reads until it gives up. Windows tells me the disc is blank when I try to open it, but tells me it's already been written to if I try to use it again. (The underside looks just as full as a successfully written disc.)
Bad media, right? Not so sure. If I render/prepare a project under DVDA, but use Nero to burn it to one of these DVD+R's, the resulting disc plays fine (although Nero complains about DVDA's files -- but what does Nero know?)
Specs:
DVD Architect 1.0d
Nero 6.3.0.2
Drive is a Memorex that burns DVD+R and DVD-R at 4x and 2.4x and DVD+RW and DVD-RW at 2.4x.
I've tried burning both at 2.4x and at 4x. If I go back to using the DVD-R's, everything's still hunky-dory.
Any ideas? Something I can tweak? Soething I'm missing? I guess I could use Nero to burn until I run out of these +R's, but there's, like, 40 of these things left...
Thanks for any help,
Rob
I've been using TDK DVD-R's for a few months now, rendering, preparing, and burning projects under DVDA without issue. Has worked flawlessly on PC and in two DVD players. Then my wife bought me three packs of TDK DVD+R's.
Although DVD seems to accept them without complaint and burn projects to them, the resulting discs are unreadable by anything I put them in -- DVD players and DVDROM drives alike. My DVD player just reads and reads and reads until it gives up. Windows tells me the disc is blank when I try to open it, but tells me it's already been written to if I try to use it again. (The underside looks just as full as a successfully written disc.)
Bad media, right? Not so sure. If I render/prepare a project under DVDA, but use Nero to burn it to one of these DVD+R's, the resulting disc plays fine (although Nero complains about DVDA's files -- but what does Nero know?)
Specs:
DVD Architect 1.0d
Nero 6.3.0.2
Drive is a Memorex that burns DVD+R and DVD-R at 4x and 2.4x and DVD+RW and DVD-RW at 2.4x.
I've tried burning both at 2.4x and at 4x. If I go back to using the DVD-R's, everything's still hunky-dory.
Any ideas? Something I can tweak? Soething I'm missing? I guess I could use Nero to burn until I run out of these +R's, but there's, like, 40 of these things left...
Thanks for any help,
Rob