Lifespan for rewritable DVDs?
05-09-2008, 09:22 AM
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Lifespan for rewritable DVDs?
How often should you be able to use these?
We own a Panasonic DVD recorder and recently I've noticed more and more of my discs are being rejected.
They are Verbatim and Maxell +RW discs (I only have a few Philips discs but none of them have failed yet).
The discs that are failing won't have been used more than a dozen times at the very maximum, and I'm pretty good about reformatting them only once they are filled.
The machine can cope with pretty much any format, but as our other dvd recorder only uses +RW it seemed easier to standardise, though often the discs from the older machine won't play on the Panasonic at all.
We own a Panasonic DVD recorder and recently I've noticed more and more of my discs are being rejected.
They are Verbatim and Maxell +RW discs (I only have a few Philips discs but none of them have failed yet).
The discs that are failing won't have been used more than a dozen times at the very maximum, and I'm pretty good about reformatting them only once they are filled.
The machine can cope with pretty much any format, but as our other dvd recorder only uses +RW it seemed easier to standardise, though often the discs from the older machine won't play on the Panasonic at all.
05-09-2008, 09:56 AM
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i use panasonic discs in the pani player and the lg one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PANASONIC-DVD-...d=p3286.c0.m14
use them for years now without problems
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PANASONIC-DVD-...d=p3286.c0.m14
use them for years now without problems
05-09-2008, 10:31 AM
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Some drives are fussy and some media simply isnt as good as other media.
It may be that the discs haven't 'worn out' but have either become scratched, dirty or mechanically damaged in some way so the drive rejects them on that basis.
At work we've standardised on 3M discs for everything, DVD & CD.
We get through thousands in a year and these have by far the lowest failure rate - though we still suffer some.
One of the few times when it really is worth spedning the money on a better brand.
It may be that the discs haven't 'worn out' but have either become scratched, dirty or mechanically damaged in some way so the drive rejects them on that basis.
At work we've standardised on 3M discs for everything, DVD & CD.
We get through thousands in a year and these have by far the lowest failure rate - though we still suffer some.
One of the few times when it really is worth spedning the money on a better brand.
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