[MacDV] Re: 8x DVD-R's

[sb]

Well, that's why it's recommended that before you buy a spindle of 100
blanks, you burn one and take it to an electronics store and test it out in
as many DVD players as possible, for compatibility.

Better to burn at 4x or 6x than 1x, no?

 regards,

 sb


On 4/20/05 6:54 AM, "Nick Scalise" <nickscalise at mac.com> wrote:

>  
> On Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 00:56AM, sb <videovideo at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> How long are your movies? If your movies total time is less than 1/2 hour,
>> your problem might be that the data rate is too high. You can add a dummy
>> movie to force iDVD to switch to a lower data rate.
>> 
>> If your movies add up to around 1 hour or more, that wouldn't be the
>> problem. Can you try to burn at 4x or 6x?
> 
> The movie I just burned was 6 separate clips totaling about 75 minutes. I have
> not yet tried burning the TY's at 4x or 6x.
> 
> However, I did experiment with the Supermediastore branded (which by the way,
> using DVD Media Inspector, reported being TY's also - probably fakes), and the
> only ones that would play in my mother-in-law's Sony DVD/VHS player were 1x.
> 
> Yet, burning at 4x or 6x kind of defeats the purpose of paying extra for 8x
> doesn't it?
> 
> --
> Nick Scalise
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