Checking DVD Media for flaws

Sometimes, the DVD media is flawed. I've been to http://www.nomorecoasters.com for recommendations about DVD media. I noticed there that Windows "Scan Disc" can apparently be used to check out a blank DVD disc before it is burned to see if it has any flaws. Is there any app that can be used with a Macintosh for this purpose?

I use Verbatim DVD-R 1-8X and none of them have had flaws so far. They cost about $.30 each. No time for me to check for flaws... Bad one? Toss it.

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I've been searching for affordable 8x DVD media for my MacIntel Mini. A number of first grade brands have only burned at 2x, but I think I've found something which will burn at 8x in the UJ-846 superdrive:
Japanese-made Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R
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from Super Media Store dot com
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The cost delivered was about 40 cents per disc.
I can't say whether the cheaper bulk-pak versions of this disc will also work, since I have no experience with them.
Hopefully this thread will collect other suggestions for DVD media which burn at 8x in this fussy Superdrive.
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NO. I don't want an external drive. I want my SuperDrive be Super as Apple called it.
Experiencing the same problem: it burns, seems well, but do not read dvd when re inserted. No more than 20 discs in 2 years and half.
Seems to me that drives used are too delicate (i had the same kind of problem also with my first iMac DV se graphite and its dvd player)
Regarding compatibility with media issue, it's curious my drive is a Sony and has same problem also on Sony DVD-R ver. 2.
Well, as far as i know, laser temperature is the greatest difference between burning and reading, (much higher in first case); this could motivate the look of well burning and not reading at all, if the lens is simply dirty..
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Best DVD Media for Burning

Hey guys,
I just bought a new macbook. Any recommendations on a specific brand of dvd I should buy. Please post a link based on your recommendations of the specific product you are referring too. Thanks for your help.

Go to cdfreaks.com "Blank Media" forum and have a read:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33
Here's a poll for the best DVD+ media:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=1655
DVD+R Taiyo Yuden are rated the best for long term storage. With DVD+R Mitsubishi / Verbatim recommended second.
Here' a poll for the best DVD- media for long term storage:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=1654
Results are the same as DVD+.
It's a very interesting forum...basically users looking for the perfect burn. I've replaced my old Apple 2X DVD burner in my QuickSilver with a $30.00 LiteON (Sony) 16X burner and flashed it with CD Freaks firmware for perfect and faster burns...or close to it anyway. But you'll need to use Windows machine to update firmware...pain in the butt!
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Who makes DVD media for Apple?

Like the title says.
Apple media works very good, but like its RAM, it's expensive.
Any known brand is equal in quality at a better price?
Sorry if this has been discussed too many times before

If you have some, you can check the ID on the media. For a DVD media checker go here: DVD Media Inspector
The site is in Japanese but the download is under the Download heading (search for it) and the application is localized and easy to figure out. Just put in a blank DVD, the code is displayed, then go to this page to find out who the manufacturer is: Video Help DVD Media list
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Dvd media for the ambient light imac g5 model number M9844LL/A ?

INFO:
my daughter is a school teacher and in august 2005 I got her a new imac g5 ambient light 17” 2.0 ghz machine. this is the last imac g5 model before the isight model was introduced. her machine is model number M9844LL/A. she runs os 10.4.3. and ilife '05.
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WHAT DVD MEDIA CAN SHE SAFELY USE ? in particular can she use the new double sided media? if so what designation. also what conventional one sided media can she use, including designation, e.g. dvd-r @ 8x .
imac g5 model number M9844LL/A Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hopefully someone will answer your question, but you posted your question in the Intel Mac Forum. A G5 question should be posted in the Power PC Forum. If no one answers, I would repost your question there.

DVD Media for my G4?

Hi,
I'm trying to burn some home movies to DVD...found out the hard way that the spindle of DVD+R's that I had wasn't going to work. I found the one Apple branded DVD-R that came with the computer back in the day (can't believe I still had it 7 years later!), but have a lot more that I need to burn. I want to buy some more discs, but after some googling, I am completely lost as to what to buy. Some of what I've read makes it sound like I should only be buying 2x discs, which seem to be impossible to find...this is an area I know NOTHING about. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Judy

It's not that I'm having "burning issues" actually the disc I burnt using the 2x Apple blank that I had turned out fine, though it did take a good 3 hours to burn. I am concerned that the 16x blank discs that I have will not work in the 2x drive, or that they will work but will not really be good quality or something. I just discovered last night that 2x media basically doesn't exist anymore:
http://www.appleinsider.com/print/04/07/06/applebails_on_2x_superdrive_mediasupport.html
And the spindle of 16x DVD-R's I have here says on the label:
"Caution: Damage to hardware and media could occur if the disc is used with some 1x/2x DVD-R drives. For optimal performance, check your drive manufacturer's website and apply the latest firmware."
Also if other speed discs have to burn at 1x, that means that each one I burn is going to take 6 hours instead of 3!!
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DVD Media for DVD+/- RW 16x Double Density?

I've got a eMachine C3070 with a DVD+/- RW 16x Double Density, wondering whats the cheapest media to buy for backup data/music/movies, etc?   I've got a friend that just bought a new pc, needs to dvd's to backup his vista image (system restore cds), so I'm gonna give him a few, too.
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actually Verbatim is still made by Verbatim (Mitsubishi Kagaku) although it is true that more and more is being OEM'd primarly by MBI and Ritek.   Especially duplication grade.
TDK has not made anything for a long, long time (OK they have a plant for BD-R but that will not last long). Most of that is made by CMC and Imation (if Imation makes anything anymore, LOL)
The way to tell is look where it is made. Verbatim made in Singapore is excellent, Japan, excellent, India: MBI and Taiwan: CMC and Ritek .
There was a time when TDK was made in the United States down in Georgia.
Taiyo Yuden is still made by Taiyo Yuden for now.     Stamper codes are not a good indicator of who made them, especially DVD
That is who made the stamper and not who produced the media. If I'm OEM I would be using a TDK stamper, or for that matter a Verbatim one, not MBI, Ritek or CMC unless it was their own brand
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Get DVD media for iWork purchased via serial number download

I purchased online serial number for iWork trial version that shipped with MacBook, in order to upgrade to full version.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the DVD without paying more than the shipping cost?

I'm not sure what you mean by a new hard drive. Are you replacing the hard drive in the MacBook? And a release date for the next version of OS X has not been announced.
When you insert the restore DVD that came with your MacBook, double-click on the bundled applications icon. You can then selectively choose which applications you want to install & de-select the ones you don't want.

I need the dvd media of acrobat 9.0 pro

Hello I have the license, but I do not have the DVD media for acrobat 9.0 pro. I downloaded from Adobe web site but the license did not activated the software. I talk to Adobe and they said I have to get a DVD media otherwise it will not activate with my license. Can someone help me?

You must have an upgrade version in that case. Where is your original download -- or did you throw it away? Throwing it away is like buying software on a DVD, installing it, and tossing the DVD in the trash.
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Could any body guide me on how to prepare the dvd media for solaris 10 installation? I downloaded the 5 dvd images and have no idea on how to put them together on a single dvd to boot from it. I zipped all the dvd's and burned them on a dvd but it doesn't boot from the dvd. Any help will be most appreciated. I can't wait to use solaris 10. Thank you.
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I've tried Memorex and TDK DVD+R DL media to burn a large iDVD project, and it tends to fail. Once it kind of worked when I lowered the burn speed to 2x (resulted in a 2.4x burn speed).
I would like to try Sony media or Verbatim....but it so expensive to just "try it out" I wanted some input. My MacBook is the new Santa Rosa, with the drive that is not that Matshuita...it is the other one.
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Every time I wind up with a new device I check out Meritline. They generally have a sampler packet of optical discs for sale. (Once I called because I didn't see it online and the salesperson put one together for me.) Anyway, its 2 discs of several different media to test out. Give that a try. BTW, I'm using Verbatim for the 'good stuff' and cheap Ritek DL media for everything else.

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No email thru Firefox for 24hrs. Checked V-Media, they remote-accessed my PC, IE worked OK. Assuming it must be Firefox.

I can't access my Virgin Media email thru Firefox since yesterday morning. Checked with V-Media, they remote-accessed my computer and opened up Internet Explorer, and were able to access my email just fine, so I have to assume the fault is with Firefox.
Can you help please?
I'm using Windows XP, been on Virgin Media for years, no problems to speak of, used Firefox for years, also no problems. This problem came out of the blue yesterday. Took ages for the mail client to open, then the emailes wouldn't open.

Terry, I'll try that when I can ("use basic HTML"). At the moment, it's stuck again at about 90% and won't let me in. I struggled this morning to get into Virgin Media forums (had to sign up, fill in passwords, all that bull), then the same at Firefox. I was so frustrated I ended up punching myself in the head. God know how people cope who aren't computer literate.
I had to enter about 20 different usernames because they were all, for some reason, "inappropriate". In the end, the only one that worked was my first name and my mother's maiden name. Totally crazy!
Then (after searching high and low) I couldn't find a link to get back into the forum to look for replies. Only saw yours because it got copied to my email address (which obviously I can only view in IE!).
At times like this, I'd take a shotgun to my PC if I had one.
If you manage to get to the bottom of this I'd appreciate it if you'd send me a quick note. I'll do the same for you, naturally.
Cheers, mate.

Anyone recommend reliable DVD-R media for big run?

Hi All;
I have a couple LARGE jobs coming up in the next few months , 100 disc copies per, and wondering what you all have had good luck with as far as dvd player compatability? (ie returns due to ' skips in my dvd player etc ...') I encode at around 4-5mbs with AC-3 audio... the program is roughly 95 mins on 1 disc.
I have been using Maxell DVD-R's for last few small runs and have had good luck... I have a bunch of Ritek's coming from Ebay to test...
thanks in advance...

What a GREAT resource for information! Thanks for the post...
We've been in the DVD business for almost 10 years now and in the early days, the only discs we used were Pioneer. Always great luck back then, but then again, discs were $100.00 each when we first started! Hey, the burner was $10K!
Now, we stick with Maxell media. Also great luck. We've used Kodak with only a few bad spindles and I just purchased TDK for the first time. Great price at our local Costco.
Good luck with your project. Buy high quality and pay more, but suffer no headaches in the end.

How do I get CC on DVD media?

Hello all,
For the last several weeks, I have been trying to get Adobe to send me a DVD that has the latest version of CC. I read from a Adobe blog saying that support agents will send out media for people who requires it.
Source: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-direct-download-links.html#comment-44362
Prodesigntools:
(Note that for people with slower Internet connections, Adobe has said they will provide a hardcopy of all these CC installers on DVD disc by request via mail, if you contact them and ask nicely. )
Daniel:
Thank-you for letting me know about this. Do you know how much it will cost to do that? Also who should I be contacting? Sales support?
Prodesigntools
Sure. As far as we know, the DVD disc with all the new Adobe CC software and installers on it is free or nominal cost, but by request only…
Contacting them via live online chat is probably the fastest/easiest way to find out more and request that.
Daniel:
Hello guys,
I got some bad news, I just spoken to Sunil and here is the response:
“Sunil : Daniel, I’m sorry to inform you that there is no disc version for the Creative Cloud products for retail users.
Sunil : You need to get the new CC apps from the Download Center at creative.adobe.com, and you need to install the creative cloud desktop app which will download and install the CC product(s) of your choice.
Sunil : So, please try to download the software from another network or from the other source.”
Can you please look into this? I got asked “Daniel, may I know if you wish to install the Adobe CC products on the government organization or from the military-secured computers?” and I said that I wanted to install it on a home computer that doesn’t have much data for download.
I was going to do it at work but decided not to as I felt that it wasn’t the right thing to do.
Thank-you
Then latter on in the comment it says
Prodesigntools
We were in touch with Adobe lead support and got the reply, “I will request a reminder go out to the support agents tomorrow. It is a fairly new process but we do want to make sure that customers who are facing a need can obtain the media due to Internet connection concerns.”
So the option to get a CC installer disc was not fully implemented yet, but does exist and will hopefully be available soon – we’ll post back when we know or see more.
And 24 hours ago:
Hi Daniel, we have not checked back with Adobe Customer Service yet on the discs for the CC release, but in theory it should be in place by now.
Now several hours ago, I went and spoke to someone on livechat again and I spoke to Basavakumar and this same guy told me to download it. When I ask if I could speak to a manager, Basavakumar said that the issue would be escalated, but I never got to speak to a manager about the issue. Basavakumar didn't even understand what the orginal issue was - I needed to remind him what the issue was and I don't think that Basavakumar even read the comments in the blog post.
Anyway after that I decided to hit twitter, because it look like that people are not reading what the orginal issue is: I don't have the rescourse to download the entire CC so that I can try it out.
And guess what? ScottV said that it best to download the files? What????
Now can someone please get me in touch with a manager?
Thank-you

You are now chatting with 'Sunita'
Sunita: Hello. Welcome to Adobe Technical Support.
CUSTOMER: I have been sent here to request the CC installation DVD so that I can install CC on a second PC that only connects via dial up.
Sunita: Hi.
Sunita: I have received your query. Please allow me a moment to verify your account and to review the details of your request.
Sunita: Thank you for staying online.
Sunita: As I understand, you need to download the CC on your new computer. Am I correct?
CUSTOMER: No. As stated, I need the DVD installation disc to allow me to install the full CC on my second PC - it doesn't have a good internet connection. It is good enough to validate CC but not to download the whole CC because it only connects by dial-up.
Sunita: Thank you for the information.
Sunita: Just to confirm, are you referring to Creative Cloud (one-year)?
CUSTOMER: Yes - the CC package I bought about a month ago.
Sunita: Okay.
Sunita: For security reasons, could you verify your complete name and billing address as mentioned on your account please?
Sunita: Please ignore the last question.
Sunita: I am sorry for the miscommunication.
CUSTOMER: A staff member on the CC forum directed me here to request the installation disc.
Sunita: I am sorry to inform you that we do not have DVDs for the Creative Cloud as
Creative Cloud product need to be downloaded from the Creative Cloud Servers.
CUSTOMER: This is ridiculous. I have been sent here to request the disc that exists.
Sunita: I can certainly understand your concern.
CUSTOMER: So, how do I get access to the disc that I pay for every month?
Sunita: But we do not have the option to provide DVD for Creative Cloud.
Sunita: We do not have the DVD for CC, you need to log in to creative.adobe.com in order to
download the CC Product.
CUSTOMER: Therefore, why are staff members on the CC forum telling lies and wasting our time?

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