On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: > >>Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. > >> > >>Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? > > > > I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. > > No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a percentage of > > coasters, so they're not economical, but do-able if you can't get > > anything else. > > > > Anne > > Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, > more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are > made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who > actually makes the disk is to do;
All of that is true, but the fact remains that big name manufacturers can't afford to get themselves linked to bad suppliers - they depend upon keeping their good name. That's not to say that there are no cheap disks that are good - but you can't test them until you have bought them, so the risk is entirely yours. Yes, you can lower the risks by burning carefully - I've had very few coasters, but 2 out of 25 in one pack - one burned on computer and the other on stand-alone dvd-recorder - is too high a proportion for me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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