topic Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp in PCs & Accessories

Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

cliffski — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:55:00 GMT

am i right in thinking you cant search these forums? jesus...

anyway got an s1xp, plays DVDs fine. but wont burn one, says i havent inserted a disk.
I got a DVD+RW disk from the supermarket. maxell 1-4X speed.
any ideas?
its a rewriteable single sided disk.
Thanks/.

And pelase can we junk these pathetic forums and use phpbb like most sane people? or vbulletin?

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

robpaxton — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:02:25 GMT

You are using the wrong type of disk - you need DVD-R or DVD-RW according to the specs at Vaio-Link.

You can search the forum by using the link in my signature. The search is still in beta and the link has yet to be added to the forum menus.

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

kee-lo_ — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:42:11 GMT

It's in mine too

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

cliffski — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:58:33 GMT

thanks for the help. so i take it there are 2 formats and not all disks can be used? I read some stuff in the faq here about not supporting writing Cds/DVDs over 700MB. surley that doesnt apply to a DVD?

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

kee-lo_ — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:02:44 GMT

That only applies to CD.

DVD can go up to 4.7GB.
There are now 3 types of DVD; they are DVD+R, DVD-R and DVD-RAM, of course the first two have RW types.

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

feederfan — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:56:09 GMT

And DVD+RDL, of course:smileygrin:, they r expensive, dont buy one, cuz your laptop wont be able to write them unless its a dual layer writer.

Re: Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

kee-lo_ — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:17:41 GMT

Its a bit of a joke RDL, it's not worth doing at the moment until they knock down the prices of the media.

A pack of ten is the same price as the original drive !