On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Stewie de Young wrote:
> Hi All
> I want to hear from folks who do mostly DVD burning with external
drives I've always had the best luck with Pioneer drives like the
116 and 118 L. But I've made my share of coasters and am open to
some new drives, so I'd like to get some brand and model opinions?
Also the best media for DLs.
>
> John Carmonne
Nearly all my drives - both internal and two mounted in a couple of
FW cases - are Pioneer brand - 115s and 118s, mostly because they
seem to need fewer patches or firmware updates to work straight out
of the box for Macs.
The biggest error most people seem to make in my opinion is that
they select too higher a burn speed or the drive doesn't have
enough buffer underun protection.
It also depends on what machine you are running these off too.
A faster machine can keep the data up to the burner more than fast
enough to prevent problems when recording.
Throttle your burn speed back to something like 8X and I bet you
have more success.
I'll try the 8 speed,. Whenj I use Toast I usually choose the "Best"
tab but I sure don't know what that means. I got real desperate
recently and chose 2 and still no cigar on that DVD, But I think I
had some crap media. I got a new batch of Phillips Lightscribe and
these have so far been OK. The CDs and SLs are usually OK the DL
movies are a real PITA. DL data disks are pretty easy. I wish I
could hit on the magic combination. I get tired having to watch the
DVDs on a set top to be sure they play OK. They almost always play
right on the Mac, Any info on a LaCie? or are they in name only?
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
from my Wallstreet G4
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