Is it really that big of a deal to find a compatible media? Is it just for better burn speeds or quality?
media is very important. Bad media will give a substandard burn. Bad media has been known to start too decompse after as little as 6 months. Burn speeds depend more upon the DVD writer and it's firmware.
Burn speed does matter some. If youy burn too fast you can lose quality. Most firmwares have better writing strategies for diffrerent medias and can include faster burning speeds. If you have an 8X burner it will not matter what the disc is rated for the most you will be able to burn at is 8X. With good media and a modified firmware you will most likely be able to burn a 4x disc at 8X. Some burners are rated at 16X but quality has been known to diminish after 12x even on good media. Go to the manufacturers website for your burner and look for the media compatibility list for your model. Some modified firmwares come with a list of improvements and writing strategies in a text document. If your interested in firmware, do some reading here: http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
The quality of media is the first think that you must have in mind when you decide to burn dvd's. The writting speed is very significant. If you 're planing use the burnrd discs in stand alone devices since most of them are not dealing with high speed compilations. At last remember that you have to treat theede discs in better manner from industrial one 's since they are not stamped. The quality of discs extends the life of your burner.
Compatability usually comes down to where those backups are going to be played.Not too many people view their backups on their pc.The pc drive that burned that backup,should play it's own backup and they should look great.It's nice to check your backups once in a while in the pc to make sure it doesn't freeze/skip/just by fastforwarding-skipping chapters,and make sure the ending of the backup is ok.When the pc can't play it's own backups,then usually it is the crappy media. It is where the majority of your backups are going to be viewed on.This is where the stand alones and game consoles face the compatability of your backups.If they don't like a certain format,they usually give you some sort of No Disc Inserted error.They may not like that certain brand of disc,speed it was burned at,or even the format of media you are using-the format is usually the case. That's why quality media is critical along with a 4x burn speed-max. That combo can eliminate a majority of issues. The overall compatability issue is why we need: Quality media and Quality dual format dvd burner. Having a quality-dual layer dvd burner that includes the bitsetting to booktype dvd plus media to dvd-rom is an even bigger bonus.Dvd rom is the most universal format.I booktype my backups,and compatability of those dvd-rom backups are virtually playable in a lot of different drives. My dash backups compatability is not even close so I don't even bother buying any more dash.
