I understand that DVDs are like CDRs where players can be particular on brands of media used in burning videos. I just ordered the Panasonic DMR-EH50S and first plan of action is plugging in my Sony 8MM camcorder and putting years of family taping onto DVDs. I would like the absolutely "Best" quality I can get since I will use these as the "masters" for future watching and editing later plus I would like these DVDs to be compatible on most DVD players. Also for the everyday recording of TV programming which is the best DVDRWs I should use? Thank you all in advance for your advice!!
16x discs aren't very compatible with standalone recorders, they may or may not burn them. No standalone will burn at 16x anyway, so you are paying more for discs that you don't need.
Ahh thanks David, would it be smarter to burn at a slower rate then the DMR-EH50S can do at max. Not sure if that made any sense lol, but say the Panny burns at 8x max I would be smarter to burn at say 4x or 6x since time is really not a factor in waiting for it to finish and it would be more acceptable on other players?
I don't know about standalones, but a PC burner with good quality discs generally burns better at the disc rated speed.
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I have an EH50S also and have so far burned 300+ discs. I have gone through several brands before settling with Memorex. From my experience, Maxell DVD-R 8x: 80% success rate Maxell DVD+R 8x: 50% success rate Home Depot DVD-R 8x: 75% success rate TDK DVD-R 8x: 80% success rate Great Quality (Fry's) DVD-R 8x: 75% success rate Memorex 8x/16x: 100% success rate
I will say that I am also impressed with the construction quality of the Memorex discs, which probably adds to their reliability during burning. I have stayed away from DVD+R format since my experience with the Maxells DVD+R's. I've burned several Nexxtech brand DVD+R discs for a friend and they all turned out ok, but just to be safe I decided to go with DVD-R format for my masters. The Maxell DVD-R's burned decent at first but construction quality was sketchy (dye issues). The Home Depot DVD-R's were also sketchy at best, with lots of dye issues as well. Great Quality is a misleading brand name, it's construction quality was sketchy and I use my remaining stock only to make copies that I give away to friends. As for the TDK's I was happy up to the point where I lost 100% burning reliability. Visually the TDKs look top notch in construction quality, and may very well be, but after several imperfect discs I decided not to stick with it as my master brand. I tried out Memorex and have been happy with these discs since. They burn perfect (at least for me) everytime. So for now, I'm sticking with Memorex for making masters. The brands I have yet to test are Fuji, Imation and Verbatim. If the Memorex doesn't work out then I will probably try the Fuji's next, I was always happy with their CD-Rs in the past. From my past experience with Sony CD-R's (flaking surface) I didn't even bother looking at their DVD-R offerings.