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Before I went to purchase cheap media
to write dvd-r disks I searched this forum.
I was suprised at how little information I got,
so I felt I would add my info to the forum.
If you want to do anything other than play
your dvd-r disks on your computer I cannot
recommend buying cheap media. I tried
the cheap disks from meritline. They test
ok, the dvd writing software writes them
ok, and they play fine on your computer,
but most standalone players will not play
them correctly.
After problems with my own Panasonic player
I tried several of my friends players, and all
exibited the same symptoms. dvd-r written
on pioneer or apple disks play fine. Written
on meritline disks they won't play at all.
I read they would play on Apex players, so I
tried the 500 and the 1500. They will at
least start on those players, however you
cannot fast forward greater than 2x speed
without locking up the player, and you
can't search backwards at all. On disks
with long movies that took up most of the
4.7G, a movie would frequently just stop
playing (usually in the last 1/2 hour of
a 2 hour movie), especially with the
Apex 500. With Apple media the Apex
players don't hang, but still fast forward
and reverse hang the player.
Needless to say, none of these players
have any of these problems with
commercial disks.
Has anyone used cheap dvd-r media and
gotten it to play in standalone players?
to write dvd-r disks I searched this forum.
I was suprised at how little information I got,
so I felt I would add my info to the forum.
If you want to do anything other than play
your dvd-r disks on your computer I cannot
recommend buying cheap media. I tried
the cheap disks from meritline. They test
ok, the dvd writing software writes them
ok, and they play fine on your computer,
but most standalone players will not play
them correctly.
After problems with my own Panasonic player
I tried several of my friends players, and all
exibited the same symptoms. dvd-r written
on pioneer or apple disks play fine. Written
on meritline disks they won't play at all.
I read they would play on Apex players, so I
tried the 500 and the 1500. They will at
least start on those players, however you
cannot fast forward greater than 2x speed
without locking up the player, and you
can't search backwards at all. On disks
with long movies that took up most of the
4.7G, a movie would frequently just stop
playing (usually in the last 1/2 hour of
a 2 hour movie), especially with the
Apex 500. With Apple media the Apex
players don't hang, but still fast forward
and reverse hang the player.
Needless to say, none of these players
have any of these problems with
commercial disks.
Has anyone used cheap dvd-r media and
gotten it to play in standalone players?
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