I've got a Philips DVD writer and I'm using Philips DVD+R/W media and Ahead
Nero. I've never magaged to get the combination to reliably reuse RW media.
I can write from new but not erase and re-write. I've tried quick and full
erase but only about 1 in 4 attemps to reuse a disc work. Typically the
write completes and I get verify failures or the new DVD can't be mounted.
I'm burning around 3.5G onto 4.7G media. All this at 2.5x speed.

Is this typical of DVD+RW or are you folks able to make RW media work as
intended?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:23:43 +0100, "CWatters"
<colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.net> wrote:

I've been able to use DVD+RW on my NEC burners using Nero 6 with no
problems. I've re-written some up to 8-10 times. One failed compare
after the 2nd burn, but I think it was due to scuffs on the poly.

These are all for video, watched in a standalone DVD player. I always
burn at less than the max media speed. You might want to try a
different burner or different blanks.

I wouldn't consider using re-writables for anything important, though.


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CWatters <colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.net> wrote

Nope, works fine here in both a Pioneer 109 and an LG 4176B.

I normally burn using Roxio but it works fine using Nero too.

Yep, and I've rewritten some something like 10 times so far.

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4fb2fkF1hp0guU1@individual.net...
Thanks folks,

Given the low price of DVD writers I decided to replace mine. New one
installed today seems to handle the same media with no problems and it can
do 16x on +R so no waiting for an hour now.

CWatters <colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.net> wrote:
Yeah, thats the reason I have two, they're so cheap that it made
sense to have one in each of the PCs that I use DVDs in much.

Yeah, looks like the original drive is a dud.