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DVD RW DW-U12 A

jumpsuit — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:20:20 GMT

Aloha

I use a DVD RW DW-U12 A and I've been having a spot of bother.

It won't burn to most writeable DVDs I've got.
(I think its because most of them were cheap.)

On the ones it does burn to, they won't play in my RDR GX300 dvd player/recorder. (Although they do play in the £29.99 Asda special)

I bought some Sony DVDs to write to but I still get a disc error notice on the GX300. Any Ideas?

I've upgraded the firmware for the driver and I've now noticed I get a message on the pc saying some discs that are set not to close may not play blah de blah blah.

How do you set/unset discs to close/finalize?
Any help at all would be great before I finally get off my chair and go and phone a Dell salesman.

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

kee-lo_ — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:22:44 GMT

Hey jumpsuit,

Sounds a right pain - nice to see Asda's DVD players are good for something though

Nero allows you to close the DVD (means you can't write anything else on them). Usually you pick this during the selection period before you drag the files to the disk.

As for DVDs, I use Verbatim.

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

seb21__ — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:57:28 GMT

I use Intenso:smileycool:

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

jumpsuit — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:14:07 GMT

Ist Verbatim Verboten?

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

riddick1968 — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:20:52 GMT

I also have the same problem, but i have bought good quality Sony DVD's, is it the Disc or the software on the Vaio.

Stuart

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

VAIOFAN — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:44:22 GMT

I think that you should use TDK web siteClick Here

Ive been using them sence i had my VAIO PVC-RS502.
It reads it like twise as faster then any other DVD+/-RW.

I recommend that you buy TDK 2x speed DVD-RW becasue as i said it whites perfect and playback perfect on any DVD player even your £29.99!

VAIO FAN

Paul:smileygrin:

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

VAIOFAN — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:46:56 GMT

By the way that link goes to 8cm lol sorry.

Click on this link

Paul:smileywink:

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

jumpsuit — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:20:35 GMT

Thanks Guys
I forgot to check this post for a while.
I sorted the problem by using Nero (and sony and tdk discs. Even Mr DVD discs work) and have completely disabled drag and flop.

The GX300 is now behaving itself apart from the macrovision goblin employed by Sony to sit in it and p*** me off:smileygrin:

ps nice one for the gamespot link!

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

VAIOFAN — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:20:54 GMT

Drag and Drop as been playing up with me as well!

But i got to say that Philips Discs are no good for a VAIO, it records ok but it takes long to white and takes ages to ealse the disc!

I dont recomened there disc's at all!

Paul

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

jumpsuit — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:07:06 GMT

I've had trouble with phillips discs in the dvd recorder/player as well.
(funny whirring noises and not playing)

Re: DVD RW DW-U12 A

kee-lo_ — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:46:42 GMT

I have never liked Drag n drop, it plays up big time

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VAIOFAN — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:59:06 GMT

Yeah distroying DVD RW's for nothing! i mean somthimes if you ealse a disc ather first use, when it comes round to 70% of ealsing it fails to ealse and spits the disc out and i can not use it again. so yeah its not one of my programs as well!
But i need it for Click to DVD.

i agree with you on that one becasue i have a DVD recorder its not that good it cost me about £199 and it records DVDR and RW -/+ . but i bought Philips discs with it! and the DVD recorder dusnt like recording on them it seems to fail to record or read disc error. So i took them back and got TDK's and i just say TDK's havent let me down!

Paul