Memorex DVD-R vs Other Brand

I've been using NextTech DVD-R to burn data. I recently bought some Memorex DVD-R and now I keep getting error messages telling me there is only 31MB of space on the disk. This is a brand new tower of DVD-R's. Also when I open finder it tells me there 4.7GB of room. Is it Memorex or something I've done? Can this be fixed?

Hi Tamara,
Memorex DVDs seem to take a beating around the various forums here and elsewhere. This site:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
has an excellent discussion of media quality and the way "brands" differ from "manufacturers." It also has a link to a little program that can read the manufacturers' code from a blank disk so you can compared it to a list of "known good" manufacturers.

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Okay, this has finally caught up to me and is now officially a problem. It didn't bother me before because I figured when I really needed to burn a DVD again I'd go out and buy some other brand, but it's Thanksgiving and I want to show the family something and no place is open.
My MacBook Pro has miraculously decided that it doesn't recognize Memorex DVD-Rs anymore. The screwy thing is that it used to. In fact, this started in the middle of a project. I was remastering one of my brother's BMX videos and making a new DVD menu and all that, and we burned what we thought would be the final. We went into the other room and watched it on the good TV and DVD player. We caught a few things we wanted to change, so we went back and changed them, but then when I popped in another disk, it spun it for about a minute and then ejected it. It has done it ever since, even through a reformat and upgrade to Leopard.
Why in the world would my drive burn to these disks one minute and the next refuse to ever recognize them again? Here's the information from the System Profiler:
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I was having the same problem with Memorex CDs that I burned MP3's on from a different computer; the CDs won't even load, it goes in, tries to read it and spits it out. I was able to pinpont it to only the Blue and Black Cool Color CDs; all of the other ones loaded successfully, even the purple and red ones. So it must be something to do with the dark colors. Guess that's what I get for wanting "Cool" looking CDs. But that's messed up that the Macbook won't play them, they work perfectly fine in other PCs! Also, from reading other people's messages, Memorex appears to be a bad brand anyways.

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I bought blank DVD, Memorex DVD+R DL 8x, but when I tried to burn with toast 8, I got a error message durring burning. I've read that it's probably because the brand is not recognize. I didn't have any problem with the Memorex DVD+R DL 2.4x. Do you know if there's a patch that can fix that compatibility problem? I know that the MBP doesn't burn at 8x, but should work at 2.4x even if I'm using 8x media.
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The drives on both are known to be finicky (at best) and there are plenty of posts regarding problems with Memorex media; try it with better quality media such as Verbatim (I use that as well as Imation and they both work great).

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I am trying to burn a dvd. I created it on Imovie shared it to Idvd and am trying to burn it on a memorex dvd-r from my mac os x laptop. Each time it attempts to bunr and then ejects it early. Usually near the end. Please help.

You will get better results if you use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option and then drag the movie from the Movies pane of the Media Browser in iDVD onto the menu window.
Also I suggest you use this workflow which I learned from Bengt:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

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i have a double layer memorex dvd burner that i bought for another computer a few years ago and now want to use it with my powerbook g4 but dont have the installation software from when i first got it. i have emailed memorex multiple times asking them about how i could get the installation software. if anyone has any ideas about where i could get the software please let me know. thank you.

You could very well be wasting your time with the Memorex Dual Layer Burner.
I suggest you have a look at one of the hundreds of available DVD Burners that you know will work without the hassel of trying to make the Memorex work.
http://www.mcetech.com/pbg4dvdr8dl.html
This is just one place, check the menu bar under products.
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I see two problems
• Memorex never worked OK on Mac when doing Video-DVDs - I only use Verbatim (more organic dye in them)
• Size in Gbs - iDVD doesn't care about Gbs at all only duration. And Duration is the sum of Movie time AND MENU TIME.
I have 500Mb files that are to large to fit and 50Gb files that fit's nicely.
iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
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(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
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(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
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For some reason my G5 want read a Memorex DVD+R Dual Layer disc that my friend burnt for me. I put the disc in, and the computer just spits it back out at me. Is this normal? What can I do? I got my G5 in 2004 can newer G5s read Dual layers? My friend made it on a Power Book so I dont see why I cant read the disc.

Yes, they are relatively new. For more on the history of DVD, see this page:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
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Hi. I've also been having issues with this.
I bought some Memorex DVD +R DL discs, but whenever I try to burn on them I keep getting an error about how the "laser wasn't able to generate enough power to penetrate the disc." Even my Toast 9 titanium won't work, it says I have a "Medium Error." I've tried everything: Toast 9, Disk Utility, Burn Folder, etc. And it will not burn.
Is there a fix for this? I did manage to burn a DVD DL disc about a month ago, but I can't remember how I got it to burn. These Superdrives are listed as being able to burn DVD DL, but I've been having nothing but problems trying to do so.
This is absolutely ridiculous.

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Ok..so I have an eMac (2004)
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Memorex Media is Fair at best. Some of the older Optical Drives do not expieriance the problems that the newer drives have.
When you are burning be sure you friend has his settings correct for Mac and PC compatiblity.
Here is a Media quide to use when purchasing.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Next be sure if you are using the newer high speed media that you read the back of the packaging and the media will burn at the lower speeds . It will read that this media will burn at 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, and 16X. so no matter the drive you have it will burn this media.
Also, as you already know stick with DVD-R Media it is the most widely recognised and used, for computers and players alike.
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Can't mount Memorex DVD

Hello all,
I have a Power PC Dual 1 GHZ running 10.4.11. I recently needed to retrieve some files from my archives. To my surprise the DVD's I used would not mount, my Mac just spit them back out. So, I tried another disk, same thing. These were all Memorex DVD's that I burned with the original drive (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104) that I'm still using. I tried another disk from my archive from a different manufacturer and it did mount, actually every disk that wasn't a Memorex did mount. Is there a problem with Memorex DVD's? Is there any way I could retrieve the info off these disks? And last, which in your opinion is the more reliable and stable backup solution, CD's or DVD's.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron

Ouch, spindle, a guaranteed way to contaminate the discs before you've even used them. If you've left them out in the sun for any length of time, your chances may be less than nil.
All I can suggest is that you give the discs a good clean with warm soapy water and hand dry them properly before use. It may help you get some files back. Be careful with the label side of the disc, the back of this contains your data.
I've used Memorex for CD-R (because they were cheap) but I bought them as individually sealed jewelcases, and I store them (before and after burning) vertically in the jewelcases in the dark. I only use them for copies of discs, usually games that require the original CD to be installed. When it goes bad, I trash it and burn another.
Depending on how important your data is, you could try buying a new drive for the MDD, something dual layer DVD perhaps.

Memorex DVD-RW spinsm not recognized, ejected

My wife has a MacBook Pro running 10.5.1 with these specs:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080M:
Firmware Revision: AA26
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When inserting Memorex DVD-RW and Verbatim DVD-R both blanks discs spin then stop and get ejected. there's not even a pop-up saying it isn't recognized. Sometimes, the DVD-R by Verbatim burn but can't be read in her optical drive (but they can be read in my MacBook with all info in tact!)
Any ideas what's wrong with those discs or with her optical drive?
She has some success burning Melody DVD+R discs. Her drive can also read those.
According to the hardware specs listed above her computer should be able to read all of those discs.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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