Good DVD+R DL media

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I usually use Memorex media (usually the cheapest ones around), for
both DVD-/+R single layer and dual-layer media. I usually find that the
single-layer media is hit and miss about whether it will work in a
stand-alone DVD player, it's likely to work 80% of the time. With dual
layer, I see it may work only 60% of the time, and then it'll only work
on the top layer, but it won't often work when it switches to the
bottom layer.

So I recently decided to switch to Fujitsu dual-layer media, which is
even flakier. The Fujitsu media won't even get recognized on my Lite-On
multi-format DVD writers either for reading or writing, while the other
multi-format writer (which is a multi-format LG DVD-RAM writer) does
recognize it, but nothing else recognizes. I've upgraded all of these
writers to their latest firmware.

So the question is simple what's the most reliable dual-layer media
around? Something that not only works in computers but also in DVD
players.

 

[Charles Marslett]

I usually use Memorex media (usually the cheapest ones around), for
both DVD-/+R single layer and dual-layer media. I usually find that the
single-layer media is hit and miss about whether it will work in a
stand-alone DVD player, it's likely to work 80% of the time. With dual
layer, I see it may work only 60% of the time, and then it'll only work
on the top layer, but it won't often work when it switches to the
bottom layer.

So I recently decided to switch to Fujitsu dual-layer media, which is
even flakier. The Fujitsu media won't even get recognized on my Lite-On
multi-format DVD writers either for reading or writing, while the other
multi-format writer (which is a multi-format LG DVD-RAM writer) does
recognize it, but nothing else recognizes. I've upgraded all of these
writers to their latest firmware.

So the question is simple what's the most reliable dual-layer media
around? Something that not only works in computers but also in DVD
players.

I don't have a lot of experience but with a BENQ DQ-60, a Sony DW-D56A
and an LG GSA-4163B, I was never able to get any dual layer disks
burned on GQ (Fry's in-house media). But I was able to read all the
data from a dual layer Linux install disk (just under 7 GB, if I
remeber correctly) on all three drives after burning a disk on each of
the three. The sucessful media was from Verbatim (3 readable out of
3, one written on each of the three burners). I've bought some Ridata
and Memorex media as well, but I have not had time to test those....

Unfortunately, I have not tried a dual layer video build so tests on a
player are still in tue future....

--Charles

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I don't have a lot of experience but with a BENQ DQ-60, a Sony DW-D56A
and an LG GSA-4163B, I was never able to get any dual layer disks
burned on GQ (Fry's in-house media). But I was able to read all the
data from a dual layer Linux install disk (just under 7 GB, if I
remeber correctly) on all three drives after burning a disk on each of
the three. The sucessful media was from Verbatim (3 readable out of
3, one written on each of the three burners). I've bought some Ridata
and Memorex media as well, but I have not had time to test those....

Unfortunately, I have not tried a dual layer video build so tests on a
player are still in tue future....

Thanks for the reply. It seems the Memorexes are good enough for storing
data from a computer, but I've had nothing but troubles getting them to
read on most dvd players.

I've seen the Verbatims around the same stores where I pick up the
Memorexes, but they were always much more expensive. I guess you get
what you pay for.

Yousuf Khan