Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.) for my DVD burner

My dvd drive was working just fine then the other day I went to burn a dvd using idvd studio pro (like I always do) and it started burning, then about 2 minutes into the burn I got an error message stating that the burn failed due to a "Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)" then th disk just spit out of the drive. I dont know what this is or how to fix it. can anyone help??

Welcome to the discussions!
Usually this pops up when your drive does not like the disk itself. Try either a different blank or a different brand disk.
I use only TDK and Fuji disks and I have never received that error and never burned a bad disk either.

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At the beginning of iDVD writing the lead-in on a burn, I am encountering “errors were found during the burning process”.
The explanation is- “The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)”
Then I get a second window that reads- “MULTIPLEXER ERROR - There was a problem during multiplexing/burning.”
Can anyone answer this problem?

Hi Jeff
Power Calibration area error in iDVD
Try:
- Clening lens with a Cleaning CD/DVD
- Change brand of DVD disks to eg: Verbatim DVD-R (I use this with good result)
1. Make a disk image in iDVD then use this and
2. burn with Apple Disk util tool or if You have Roxio Toast™ AND
3. at an as slow speed as possibly eg: x1 or x2 or x4
or as Sue writes: Improve performances
iMovie: Tips to improve performance
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93699
Yours Bengt W

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I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D burner in G% PowerMac purchased in December 2004. It will burn CD's using Toast but it won't even complete asset encoding when attempting to burn DVD's using either DVD Studio Pro or iDVD. Anyone ever seen this error message before? If so, what did you do to fix the problem?
Thanks for whatever help you can give,
Roger Legel

yes, I got this error about a year ago, and so I was told to change the media that you use to burn. I was using RiDATA DVD-R's, and they worked for a year or so, then they stopped working and I would get the error, so I changed over to a different DVD-R, I believe Tyundens, unsure though, and they worked for about a year, and now they no longer work anymore, and I am getting issues with them. They work when I burn small 5 minute projects, but anything larger than that, it gives me the error.
SO my question is this? Do I have to keep on changing on what DVD-R's I use every year because the DVD burner is that picky????
I need the problem to be fixed as well!!!

Calibration area error 0x73, 0x03

Hello,
i'm trying to burn apple media dvd on my idvd project.
The burner is Pioneer DVR-104, and i get that massage:calibration area error 0x73, 0x03.

power calibration error means either your have a burner problem or you have poor media.
Apple media should be OK. What is the rated burn speed of the media you have?

Error Code When Burning (Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)

I've been searching for answers to my problem and it seems like this problem has randomly popped up for many others like it has for me.
A month ago I randomly started getting this error code Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.) when I tried to burn dvds in DVD Studio Pro. When I try to burn a DVD just from the finder options I get this error Code (Error code 0x8002006D)
But CD's burn fine for me.
I have been using the exact same discs that were able to burn before. They are 16x speed Memorex.
I tried relaunching the finder. I bought a Disc Cleaner today and i bought some 8x speed DVD's. I cleaned the Burner and I was able to successfully burn a 8x cd but still not the 16x.
Does anyone know the cause of this error code? Why would it just randomly happen?

Hi:
Check this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1054119
You can use this link ** Media Brand vs. Manufatrurer Brand ** to learn about your media quality.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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In an effort to burn a Maxell DVD-R from iDVD, I receive the following error message just as the burn process completes:
The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)
1) I visited the Apple Store and the genius ordered and installed a new dvd burner
2) The new burner has the exact same error
3) I've search around the internet and realize that I'm not alone. Aparently many have seen iDVD show this error with one unusual means to fix the error. One fix was to burn the image to an external drive and then use the disk utility to burn the dvd. Apparently the issues seemed to be iDVD.
4) I've burned many DVDs with the same project to the same brand of DVD-R in the exact same manor that I tried here.
5) I have iDVD 5.0.1, a new Powerbook 15", and OS X 10.4.2.

I still have the same problem with iDVD 5, Toast 7 Platinum, DVDSP, and even recording my project into a .img file and using Disk Utility, so I don't think the problem is related to a particular app, but to Mac OS X, and not even a hardware or media problem as I've previously used this brand to burn like 50 DVDs without problems (Verbatim DVD-R) and in two days I've had like 15 coasters with this project with both Verbatim and Samsung DVD-Rs.
Here is the error log:
iDVD: Burn started, Fri Dec 30 20:38:24 2005
iDVD: Burning to DVD-R media with DAO strategy in PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 X227 via ATAPI.
iDVD: Requested burn speed was 1x, actual burn speed is 1x.
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iDVD: Write (10), block: 768, count: 64 -> 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
iDVD: Burn failed, Fri Dec 30 20:39:56 2005
iDVD: Burn sense: 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
iDVD: Burn error: 0x8002006E The burn failed because of a medium write error.

Power calibration area error??

hello,
I was having this "The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)" error message continually show up when attempting to burn a dvd project through dvd sp 4. I made the menu in motion 2 and two videos edited through FCP 5.
Does anyone have any advice to help me get past this. Project is due tomorrow morning.
~Ray

Hi:
You can try a different burning workflow. You can build a disc image of your project from DVDSP and burn it using Disk Utility and/or Toast:: Creating Disc Image in DVDSP. DVDSP uses to be more sensitive to media than the other options.
That said, you must know that as general rule, video DVD-R and more compatible with standalone DVD players than DVD+R. That means that you can find some "older" players than can refuse to play DVD+R discs.
Besides that probably DVDSP don't like your DVD+R media. What media brand are you using? Visit this link to learn about quality media: Media Brand vs. Manufatrurer Brand.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Disc recording log; Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 - 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error, Burn failed

Hello All Apple Heads (Brit. short for headmaster or headmistress.)!
My MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846
(Firmware Revision: FQ3T, ATAPI, Burn Support: Yes [Apple Shipping Drive], Cache: 2048 KB, Reads DVD: Yes, CD-Write: -R, -RW, DVD Write:-R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO), optical super drive is unable to burn on any CD or DVD.
The Disc Recording log list below writes: "Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error, Burn failed".
DiscRecording.log:
Description:          Disc recording log
Size:          2 KB
Last Modified:          11-09-15 4:50 PM
Location: /Users/-/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log
Recent Contents:          Finder: Burn started, Thu Sep 15 16:40:47 2011
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-846 FQ3T via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 24x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
Finder: Burn failed, Thu Sep 15 16:41:57 2011
Finder: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
Finder: Burn error: 0x8002006D The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc, or try burning at a slower speed.
Finder: Burn started, Thu Sep 15 16:43:37 2011
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-846 FQ3T via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was 8x, actual burn speed is 8x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Burn finished, Thu Sep 15 16:49:31 2011
Finder: Verify started, Thu Sep 15 16:49:31 2011
Finder: Verify failed, Thu Sep 15 16:50:20 2011
Finder: Verify sense: 3/02/00 Medium Error, No seek complete
Finder: Verify error: 0x80020063 Verifying the burned data failed.
Can this issue be solved by means of firmware/updates, terminal command lines, or through other open source OS?
Is this issue related to lense cleanliness?
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Sam
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I have also tried TDK, Maxell, Verbatim and Sony media
Me too. Out of that list the only brand that has NEVER produced a coaster (on the same burner as yours) is Verbatim DVD-R and Fuji DVD-R. All the others produced a 25-50% failure rate.
Have you tried burning at a slower speed?
Using 16x DVD media is fine - in fact it is difficult to buy any other - but there is a consensus in the Apple Support Forums that a slower burn is a better burn i.e. 2x or 4x (slow burns are better burns!). I always use Toast for burning.
The term "Best" means the fastest speed that the drive told Toast it can write to a specific disc. The drive's firmware and info on the disc decide what speed burns are available. When you press the speed setting button in Toast (after inserting a disc) you'll likely see some speeds in italics and some in bold face. The ones in bold face are supported by that media on that drive. The fastest one is what Toast calls Best.
Audio CDs in particular should be burned at the lowest supported speed.
Verification is a good indicator the disc is burned okay. However, other DVD players can still have problems with the disc. Media problems with various drives is not uncommon. Slower burning may reduce the chance of those problems, and is one of the reasons why RW (read/write) media is always rated slower than DVD-R.
There are some interesting facts here:
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa4.htm and here:
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa4.htm
But many will tell you that the 'slower burn is best' theory is outdated. Who really knows? At the end of the day, if your home-made DVD was verified by Toast and will play anywhere on anybody's DVD player, then that is the result we are all after!

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Thanks,
mp

David,
Thanks for your post. I had a problem with a Data burn also. I got Error, sense code=0x21,0x02, buffer under-run.
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mp

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