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Posted: 12-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by TimC

Nice burn there Arachne.

Just further justification for the continual Verbatim recommendation.

Definitely, I only bought these for testing.

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Posted: 12-01-2007

kg_evilboy (CD Freaks Boy Toy): Posts: 5,360

I think your LGs might like them more.
Hey, where'd your 4167 go?

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Posted: 12-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by kg_evilboy

I think your LGs might like them more.
Hey, where'd your 4167 go?

The 4167 was donated to the guy upstairs. And yeah, I'll try them on my E10N

The Litey did better, only being slightly out of spec PIF wise, and a perfect TRT.

I think the Sammy's problem with it might be firmware related.

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Posted: 12-01-2007

Wizzu (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 6,556

Any reason why I returned the 165P6S unit responsible for this wonderful @12X MCC004 burn?

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Posted: 12-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by Francksoy

Any reason why I returned the 1635P6S unit responsible for this wonderful @12X MCC004 burn?

Do you mean 1635S or 165P6S?

...I'm assuming the latter

Either way, that's pretty painful for MCC004

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Posted: 12-01-2007

Wizzu (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 6,556

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Originally Posted by Arachne

I'm assuming the latter

You're assuming correctly

- My brain is in typo mode these days.

(post edited, typo fixed)

Another interesting scan, this one from my "G04 degradation rate survey" pile...

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Posted: 13-01-2007

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Originally Posted by Arachne

Here's a nice one. Just bought some RICOHJPN D01's for testing, and burned this on my Sammy (SB04) at 8x with DVDFab Plat.

As you can see, my Sammy loves these

(and the Litey's not too impressed at reading it either).

Now to try them on my E10N and 165P6S...won't bother with my 1640 'cos it only gives them a default strat.

I think that's a firmware issue - the error levels rise and fall sharply.

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by Kevatcrewe

I think that's a firmware issue - the error levels rise and fall sharply.

Yeah, I was leaning towards the same conclusion - thanks for thinking the same thing

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Kevatcrewe (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 968

Managed to try them in you're LG yet?

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by Kevatcrewe

Managed to try them in you're LG yet?

Nah, that's tomorrow's fun

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Kevatcrewe (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 968

Holding back on me

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Posted: 13-01-2007

imkidd57 (Senior Moderator & Editor): Posts: 8,661

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Originally Posted by Arachne

Definitely, I only bought these for testing.

Remember folks, buy Verbatim DL!

Thanks Arachne - it's very useful to know NOT to buy these, as I was half tempted myself the other week (being soooo out of touch with media these days

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Clearly a travesty of the RICOHJPN name though

. BTW does the ..."JPN" in the MID have any relevance? This looks like nothing that ever dared to emanate from Japan...

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Posted: 13-01-2007

kg_evilboy (CD Freaks Boy Toy): Posts: 5,360

It should be RITEKTWN instead if it was supposed to mention the factory and not the company selling these...

I think the JPN is just there for historical reasons

But Ricoh does indeed make some DL media in Japan, however it's rare and most likely only available in Japan.
http://dvdr.sakura.ne.jp/Image/dvd/+...CWJ_Back_L.jpg

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by kg_evilboy

...I think the JPN is just there for historical reasons

...

That was what I thought

...@imkidd - no probs, glad my little fun test helped someone out

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Posted: 13-01-2007

TL0 (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 1,178

Hmm, IS DL media, it may be a similar situation as TY 16x media was/is and some other 16x media currently appears to be. A combination of (Ritek) QC & poor firmware support. Hopefully both will be better in the future.

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Posted: 13-01-2007

getit29 (MyCE Resident): Posts: 1,581

Okay I do believe this is the worst or one of the worst scans I've had in a while

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Posted: 13-01-2007

scoobiedoobie (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 3,163

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Originally Posted by Francksoy

Any reason why I returned the 165P6S unit responsible for this wonderful @12X MCC004 burn?

OMG, that's awesome!

Looks like your problems with Liteon Burners continues.

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Posted: 13-01-2007

Wizzu (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 6,556

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Originally Posted by scoobiedoobie

Looks like your problems with Liteon Burners continues.

Yep, I can't say that "LiteOn burners and Franck" sounds like a love story..

- just bad luck I guess, but from now on I'll stick exclusively to scanning purposes with the Liteys.

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Posted: 14-01-2007

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I'll just add that I had the same TYG01 problem with my LG4167B as Arachne did.

The discs just arent supported well by the LG. I had unreadable discs no matter what. The Pioneer 111L burnt them fine though.

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Posted: 21-01-2007

Ssseth (Retired Senior Moderator): Posts: 4,370

Here is one of my worst ever. I should scan some of the G05's I have left over, I think I thre most of them out already though.

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Posted: 23-01-2007

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Fell in my hands today: a Memorex DVD-R 4X - I totally blame this disaster on my 401S@811S though - it's got the hallmark swirls in the burn surface

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Posted: 10-06-2007

Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

Hehehe...feeling pretty bored, so I decided to scan some discs I burned a month ago.

To be fair, this one didn't scan too well @4x either back then, so I'm guessing it was on it's path of deterioration before I burned it. Edit: it's a Ridisc Xtreme disc BTW.

I included a TRT because strangely my 4551A had no problems reading it

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Posted: 10-06-2007

DrageMester (Retired Moderator): Posts: 17,858

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Originally Posted by Arachne

I included a TRT because strangely my 4551A had no problems reading it

Perhaps you could try a TRT in your LiteOn drive?!

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Posted: 10-06-2007

Bob (Resident lunatic): Posts: 17,801

I like the scan colors/colours in this thread

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Posted: 10-06-2007

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Arachne (Senior Moderator & Reviewer): Posts: 29,885

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Originally Posted by DrageMester

Perhaps you could try a TRT in your LiteOn drive?!

Even that doesn't seem to have a problem, few tiny dips here and there but nothing major:

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