Originally posted by: Z80
Originally posted by: DarphB
UPDATED
Ordered my First batch of these disks!
Have burned 50 disks in 2 days.
My disks have the white star on them
here is the disk info:
Manufacturer Maybe = Longten Tech. Co., Ltd.
SMART-BURN Speed Limit = 4.0X (Write)
I have a liteon 811s burner.
No coasters yet!
UPDATE!
2 bad disks. They burned fine, no errors, but it freezes up on my Sony ns325 dvd player.
ALOT more than 2 bad disks. I am finally getting to watching my movies. And MOST of them have errors. Alot of screen freezes. Skips, and cant finish the movie.
I wont be buying these disks anymore... You get what you pay for...
Here's what I do with my Lite-On 811s:
Set your burn speed back to 2X and select the validate option for every burn. Leave a little room at the end of the DVD because that is where 90% of the bad blocks occur. I stick a couple of trailers, deleted scenes or other features at the end of my DVD movie rips.
If you forget to validate, run the Nero CDSpeed utility (or comparable like DVDInfo) and do a surface scan. Mark the DVD's that fail validation or have bad blocks per the scan so you can give them to friends and relatives. I've found that depending on the DVD player used, most of my 2X burns that fail validation or have bad blocks still play fine, you just can't copy them. Perfect gifts for the technically challenged.
I'm about half way through my first 100 batch of these disks and I get about 1 in 5 with validate and/or bad block errors. Like you, my first couple of burns were at 4X without any errors and I made the mistake of thinking they would all burn at 4X.