Who is burning Blu-Ray?

Kimberly wrote on 8/4/2010, 9:04 AM

Hello Everyone:

I'm seeing external blu-ray burners on eBay for around $130 and blu-ray disks on Dell.com for around $3 each. So it appears the cost to create blu-ray disks is within the reach of many users.

Who among us is burning genuine blu-ray disks? And how well do they play in a variety of blu-ray players?

(When I say blu-ray I mean the kind of disk that you create on a blu-ray disk from a blu-ray burner from DVDA-5.0 sans the AVCHD workarounds that have been extensively discussed in other threads.)

Regards,

Kim

Comments

Birk Binnard wrote on 8/4/2010, 3:09 PM

I've got a new LG Blu-Ray burner and so far have burned one title to a Sony R/W disk. Everything worked fine. I also got 5 Verbatim write-once Blu-Ray disks but haven't tried them yet.

My approach is to use the R/W disk until I'm sure I've got the title set up and working completely OK, and then simply re-burn the ISO file onto a write-once disk.

My player is a PS3 which is an odd beast for sure but the disk played A-OK as do all commercial Blu-Ray disks. (Avatar was the real test. Wowie!) The PS3 now supports 3D on Blu-Ray but I have no idea how to go about making something like that. I expect there will be a whole new forum on 3D soon.

csc0709 wrote on 8/4/2010, 3:34 PM

I do all the time and have had fantastic results. I have a Pioneer burner. My advice is to stay away from LTH (low-to-high) recordable media and Memorex media. I have had bad results with those. BD-R should play fine on just about all Blu-Ray players that support the BDMV format (format used in movie Blu-Rays). I have not tried recording to a dual-layer 50GB disk yet with DVD Architect. I use Architect to do the authoring and then burn an image file to the hard drive. Then, I use imgbrn to burn to the actual disk. Hope this helps - good luck!.

Kimberly wrote on 8/4/2010, 5:44 PM

Thanks CSC!

I too too have ImgBurn. Is there a reason you burn with ImgBurn rather than the feature in DVDA-5.0?

Birk Binnard wrote on 8/5/2010, 8:51 AM

Note that if you are running Windows7 you don't need any 3rd party image burning software. Just right-click on the ISO file DVDAS creates and click the top option, which is Burn to disk. My first Blu-Ray ISO was something like 16 GB and Win7 put it on my Blu-Ray disk perfectly.

KenJ62 wrote on 8/5/2010, 4:24 PM

Hi Kim,

I just finish my granddaughter's wedding. 105 minutes - I made 6 Blu-ray disks on Ritek 4X using DVDAS5 and they work and and look marvelous. Then I swapped out the .m2v file in DVDAS5 for an .mpg and made eleven double-layer DVDs - also on Ritek. Had 2 complaints so far on the double-layer so made a couple single-layer disks on Taiyo Uden media - have to drop the max bitrate below 5 Mbps to do so but they still look good. The Ritek Blu-ray disks were $50 for a 25 pack, hub printable at Rima.com. I have had good service from Rima. Even at 2 dollars a piece Blu-ray media seems quite expensive to me - still 5 times as expensive as DVD media.

-=Ken=-

TOG62 wrote on 8/5/2010, 11:25 PM

My experience, albeit limited, is that the only double layer discs that work consistently are Verbatim. I've had trouble with Ritek, both single and dual layer.

Grecian wrote on 8/7/2010, 3:03 AM

I've got a Sony Viao i5 laptop with a Blu-ray burner. I use it to edit my own AVCHD footage and burn onto Blu-ray. As far as I can tell the discs I have made work fine. However, I don't have a separate Blu-ray player so I just plug the laptop into the TV via HDMI and the results look good to me. The only negative point is that the rendering the editing footage takes a while. On my PC is about 4 times the playing length. So 1 hour of AVCHD takes about 4 hours to render and burn.
Next step is to get a separate Blu ray player, although to date not seen one with the spec. I would like.
Also need to get a out now and do some more filming because I have edited and burned all my material onto Blu-ray!

DGates wrote on 8/9/2010, 3:33 AM

I've been using DVDA5 for Blu-ray for a while. While it's a rather easy process, I can't say that it's all that reliable. I've burned coasters on more than a few occasions, all after getting the message from DVDA that the burn was 'successful', even when it only actually burned half the content.

So obviously, reliability is my the biggest concern, and I'm just not getting it with Sony. But I'll put up with it's quirkiness until I can switch to Encore. That Adobe product is miles ahead of the game.