[MacDV] Re: DVD-R longevity

[Mark M. Florida]

I've had very similar problems with my Pioneer 104 at work -- I just thought
maybe it was a media problem.  I had problems with various brands until I
settled on Imation brand DVD-Rs.  I don't know if that's really what the
root of the problem was, but it went away when I started using Imation
discs...  Go figure.

2 cents.

- Mark

On 5/8/03 8:40 PM, "ShirleyK" <ShirleyKat at cox.net> wrote:

> I'd give it no more than a week if it were sitting out in the sunlight.
> 
> That reminds me. I was going to take a short video project folder to a
> meeting so I could show them how the film looked in iMovie. The folder
> was 2.5 GB. I dragged it to a DVD and let Apple make the data DVD. All
> went well (if slowly) until it failed verification. I had already used
> the same brand of media to make a regular DVD from iDVD (this on the
> 1.42 G4 tower and the version of iDVD in the iLife package).
> 
> After that data DVD failed to verify, I decided to see what would
> happen if I tried to read it. It seemed to mount and I could see a
> couple of icons inside, but trying to open a folder took a long time,
> before failing.
> 
> Next I installed Toast and tried the same thing. I got exactly the same
> response from the Toast-burned DVD. Has anyone experienced this or do
> you have an idea of what went wrong? I'll try another data DVD with
> other files I want to back up and use the Apple DVD this time. But I'm
> curious about what might have gone wrong here. It shouldn't matter what
> kind of files I select, should it?
> 
> Shirley
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 09:26  PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
> 
>> Back in the winter there was a thread regarding concerns on the
>> longevity of DVD-R media.  I decided to put one in the glove
>> compartment of my car to give it a bit of a torture test.  I just saw
>> it on Sunday and took it in the house and it still plays fine.  It is
>> back in the car now and I will see what it will be like after the
>> summer.  One year in a car must be equal to a decade in a climate
>> controlled house.
> 
> 
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