DVD Burner Bleg
Posted by
tgirsch
For the last year or so, I’ve been using a Magnavox MRV640 DVD+RW recorder, and it’s been frustrating to say the least. On the one hand, I like the features, but on the other, it’s had some weird and sporadic reliability issues. DVDs that I burn sometimes skip on other players, and many of them won’t play on other players at all.
Just this week, I burned something down to a DVD+RW. It plays fine on the Magnavox, of course; it also plays okay on my year-old Dell PC, and on our 3-4 year old eMachines laptop. It won’t even recognize on my six-year-old Dell PC, my five-year-old set-top DVD player, my three-year-old DVD-ROM drive, or my brand-spankin’-new Sony DVD+/-RW recorder that’s in my other PC. It’s mind numbingly frustrating not to be able to watch what you record!
Looking around the internet, I see a lot of people complaining of similar problems with other set-top DVD burners, and some opining that it’s the media, rather than the recorder.
I’m totally confused.
So I’m opening up this forum on DVD burners, in hopes that somebody will have some good advice and useful experience.
I’m still pondering a different set-top burner, but what I really want may not exist. In tgirsch’s dream land, I would be able to record to a DVD+R or DVD-R, then before finalizing the disk, take it over to a PC where I could do the chapter editing and so forth.
WE have three: one in the desk top pc, one on the laptop, and one for TV. We have the JVC dual deck (dvd/vcr combo). It works well.
Comment 7/5/2006
DVD-R seem to have the widest compatability, particularly with older hardware.
Comment 7/6/2006