Verbatim BD-R Issue

psg wrote on 9/6/2010, 8:54 PM

I am using Verbatim BD-R;s. The hub printable, hard coat (97053) kind.

When I burn a blu-ray video from DVD Architect 5.0B it shows the burn ratios selections as all 2X (five times). I know these BD-R discs are rated 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10X and my Pioneer BDR205 is rated to burn at 10x max write..

This is info is confirmed I click on the advanced button in "make blu-ray disc" and look at drive info and media info so I find it curious that it shows 2x five times!

Anyone else seen this?

Comments

PeterDuke wrote on 9/7/2010, 6:21 AM

Have you tried Imgburn or other burning software?

Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/7/2010, 1:33 PM

Is it possible you're writing to a BD-RE disc?

As you can see from the specs on the Pioneer site, your drive burns different discs at different speeds. It can burn a CD at 24x but the fastest it will burn a BD is 12x -- and a BD-RE at only 2x. Not that I'd recommend burning anything as vital as a DVD or BluRay at anything faster than 4x.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Products/BusinessProducts/Blu-rayDisc+DVDWriters/Blu-rayDiscWriters/BDR-205?tab=B

psg wrote on 9/13/2010, 8:06 PM

Since there are 5 entriesin the speed I was thinking they actually should say 2x, 4x, 6, 8x, 10x rather than all being 2x.

I didn't measure speed when clicking on any of the selections, so I'm not sure if my assumption is correct.

PeterDuke wrote on 9/13/2010, 10:49 PM

That's why I suggested that you try a different burning application to see what options it gives.

csc0709 wrote on 9/21/2010, 12:06 PM

Be sure that you are not using the Verbatim BD-R LTH (Low to High) medium. These can only be burned at 2x speed. An easy check is to look at the record surface of the disc as these types of disc will look more like a recordable CD-R instead of the dark purple record surfaces of the regular BD-R. Also, make sure that it isn't a BD-R DL (dual-layer) as this can affect burn times. Verbatim makes two types of recordable single layer BD-R. The LTH version I mentioned above is a type of disc manufactured using existing DVD-R processing plants and still uses an organic dye layer. The standard BD-R has to be manufactured in specialised facility for BD-Rs only and uses an inorganic dye layer.

KenJ62 wrote on 9/21/2010, 7:49 PM

I have Ridata BD-R 4X and DVDAS5 has a similar option drop-down selections with (if I remember correctly) 4 instances of 2X as the choices. These Ridata are not LTH.

csc0709 wrote on 9/23/2010, 8:39 AM

For what its worth, I don't use Achitect to burn to BD-R. Instead, I build the image file with Architect and use ImgBrn to burn the image file to the disk. Much more reliable this way.

psg wrote on 9/26/2010, 7:03 PM

Yes, I specifically chose the non-LTH media. When looking at the advanced burn parameters of the media in DVDA it indicates the write descriptors available as 10x, 8x, 6x, 4x, 2x.

Since others have reported this same thing with Ridata media and drives other than my Pioneer, I'm chalking up to DVD architect.

Thanks for the tip on imgburn...i've been meaning to try that for some time so I have another reason now.

entilza72 wrote on 10/2/2010, 5:00 AM

I also have the same Verbatim BD-R's you describe, also with a Pioneer BDR205 burner.

I also get 2x only for write speed.

Cheers,
Jason.