Has anyone used Mirror Platinum DVD-R's?

George Tatum

John Doe's probs with That's Write DVD-R's caused me some concern as I thought DVD-R was supposed to be much more resilient than CD-R and didn't have the same sort of CRC probs :-o

The only disks I have had probs with so far I guess was a spindle full of Datawrite DVD-RW's that should have been DVD-R, they burnt OK first time but every one corrupted when trying to erase them, guess it was a duff batch as I've heard good reports about this brand

I have some Mirror Platinum disks, has anyone used these and are they any good?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:53 pm **Post subject:**

Datawrite have won practially every quality awards going. Probably best buy out there and what I buy. Not made a coaster yet

George Tatum · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:57 pm **Post subject:**

So I believe, guess I was just unlucky to get a duff spindle. It wasn't the burner as I used both my burner and standalone recorder with the same probs

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:11 pm **Post subject:**

I bought : these and I've not had any problems with them so far.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:44 pm **Post subject:**

George Tatum wrote:

So I believe, guess I was just unlucky to get a duff spindle. It wasn't the burner as I used both my burner and standalone recorder with the same probs

I haven't tried RW was referring to the -rs

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:05 pm **Post subject:**

To answer my own question, just got a CRC error on one :cry:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:27 pm **Post subject:**

After that 'that's write' incident I now always do a 'verify data' check on the first bunch of dvd's I burn from a new brand.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:32 pm **Post subject:**

I do a verify data on EVERYTHING I write now after a whole batch of films fucked up on me

(with my old lite on cd writer)

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:33 pm **Post subject:**

This is a really strange one though as these DVD's had been working fine for me until I posted this thread, looks like I put a curse on 'em :twisted:

I always copy everything back to my hard drive as a verification, don't trust anything :mrgreen:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:59 am **Post subject:**

damn that takes a fucking loooong time. burning a dvd with verification takes like 50 mins or something?

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:32 am **Post subject:**

burn and verify = ~30 minutes at 4x

Re downloading 6 movies because you didn't check the disk and deleted the files takes a damn sight longer

John_Doe · **Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:31 am **Post subject:**

lol. true. =)

the verifying part take longer on my puter though. guess something's in need of an upgrade...?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:18 pm **Post subject:**

John_Doe wrote:

lol. true. =)

the verifying part take longer on my puter though. guess something's in need of an upgrade...?

You could invest several million in a SCSI interface card and DVD burner :wacky:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:08 am **Post subject:**

George Tatum wrote:

I always copy everything back to my hard drive as a verification, don't trust anything :mrgreen:

same here, as had a whole buncha movies fail on reads when my burner died

lildarien · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:32 am **Post subject:**

Has anyone had any experience with Shintaro brand dvd-r? I can get a spindle of 50 for $60 AUD and i'm really in need of clearing space. I've got a Pioneer 4X 106 (i think) burner if that matters with compatibility issues.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:36 am **Post subject:**

lildarien wrote:

I've got a Pioneer 4X 106 (i think) burner if that matters with compatibility issues.

I've had no compatability issues with most brands with my pioneer 105. It happily burns even 2x media at 4x too :lol:

Hoever, I have shit loads of ram and have it on its own ide channel. CRC normally = read / write error due to buffer problems in my experience, except for on really old cds.

Has anyone used Mirror Platinum DVD-R's?

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