--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Paul <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Trouble reading homemade data/movie DVD's on Pismo drive
> To: "G-Books" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 12:38 AM
>
> I almost always burn at 6x, which has been slow enough for
> any other
> DVD device I've ever used. I have NEVER had this kind of
> problem
> before.
>
> Someone wrote to me privately to say that DVD-R (as opposed
> to DVD+R)
> is better for readability. And I've read others who will
> fight to the
> death to say that DVD+R is much better.
>
> All I can say to this is - phooey - there are so many
> opinions and
> opinionated people, so many Mac partisans who will
> rationalize away
> almost any failing of their beloved machines. So many
> people who will
> fight to the death for their opinion, and so many other
> people willing
> to fight to the death for the opposite opinion.
>
> So much misinformation, ignorance, urban legends, repeating
> something
> some "expert" said while drunk at a party, etc., etc., ad
> nauseum. I
> throw up my hands. No way am I going to burn DVD's at 1x
> just to
> accomodate some outdated piece of equipment that the
> manufacturer -
> and Apple - can't be bothered to issue a firmware update to
> bring it
> at least into the 20th century. I'm used to seeing several
> firmware
> updates for any optical drive I've used before. Most of
> these updates
> are for the purpose of being able to read more brands of
> discs. If
> Apple and their suppliers are "above all that," then
> they're beneath
> all of us who are paying them good money for all this
> equipment.
>
> Macs and their OS's may be better than PC's and Windows,
> but they're
> not better enough, not enough to justify all the obnoxious
> cultishness, like Jehovah's Witnesses without the
> door-knocking.
Umm....huh?
Now I'm confised....how did this become an Apple vs non-Apple issue?
The main reason I burn DVD's at 1x or 2x is to get them to play clean in
non-computer
equipment (like the DVD player you have hooked to a TV) or older equipment that
can't
handle inaccuracy or variations in the burn....I can't really see how that is
an Apple or
non-Apple issue since the problems can occur in equipment that isn't even
computer
related.
Slowing the CD-burn rate usually is helpful for getting skip-free playback in
the car or on portable devices, it has more to do with precision of track
spacing and
such than brand name...
+R and -R is more a licensing issue than techincal - although I have noticed
that
many home-component DVD players handle -R better than +R, although even
some very inexpensive Wal-Mart DVD players will take +R without a problem
too....
In fact, most of my CD and DVD burning is done on Linux machines using PC
hardware, so the whole "Apple being above firmware updates" thing is pretty much
a non-sequiter....slowing down the burn for compatibility isn't an Apple thing
by
any means - its equally significant on PC hardware.....
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