There is DVD+R and DVD-R. For technical reasons, +R is pr eferred. DVD-RAM is to be avoided.
I have had the sam e issue regarding an unreadable DVD, and I always run a v erify. However, the reader was my own notebook. ;-) Peopl e tend to upgrade their desktop burners more often than n otebooks, so sending DVD hasn't been much of an issue. Nowadays, most publishers have ftp. ------Original Message------ From: Tony Sleep Sender: filmscanners_ow n...@halftone.co.uk To: li...@lazygranch.com ReplyTo: fi lmscann...@halftone.co.uk Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Ad vice on scanner settings Sent: Feb 26, 2009 8:43 AM O n 26/02/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > I font follow your reason for rejecting DVDs. Granted at > 4 GBytes, they aren't big these days. I don't trust DVD stabilit y/longevity at all. I've had quality branded DVD's corru pt themselves after as little as 3m or fail to read on a drive other than the one that created them (though that' s an older problem from early days). Worst example wa s one that I drove to a client 40mls away, on a very urg ent deadline. It had verified and test loaded fine here o n 2 different drives, and they couldn't read it, they co uld only see the directory entries. I had to go back hom e, burn another and drive back again. Later I tried the problem disk and I couldn't open the files either. It rea lly put me off DVD, unlike CD, where I have never had a disk go bad in up to (so far) 13 years. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk ----------------- --------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halfton e.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message tit le or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
