wiggo
27-09-2004, 18:08
(I posted this in the wrong area sorry but moved it over here)
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I use a few tools to backup, but mostly latley ANYDVD and Clondvd2. Got a Pioneer A05 drive. I also backup my kids xbox games, so I have been standardizing on Ritek media with the G04 dye. That works best for Xbox.
My issue is that not all of my house DVD players seem to like my burns. They play fine for a while but then stop in the middle.
The weird thing is that is seems that the cheaper the dvd reader the better it plays my backups. For example I got this $1000+ sony 6mths ago multi-disk home theader POS, and it will not play burns well at all. However, the very same movie will play great in my $35 Apex DVD player. I have come to find out that the more expenpensive the machine the more cleaner the image they are trying to produce and compressed movies give many of them fits. Cheep machines don't worry about the image quality in this much detail.
Yes the higher the compression rate the worse my chances are. Non compressed movies all play fine for me in any of my DVD players.
So my question is what do you guys think is the best DVD Players out there for playing backup movies? Or if not has anybody done any research on what media is best for specific players.
tks
thanks
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I use a few tools to backup, but mostly latley ANYDVD and Clondvd2. Got a Pioneer A05 drive. I also backup my kids xbox games, so I have been standardizing on Ritek media with the G04 dye. That works best for Xbox.
My issue is that not all of my house DVD players seem to like my burns. They play fine for a while but then stop in the middle.
The weird thing is that is seems that the cheaper the dvd reader the better it plays my backups. For example I got this $1000+ sony 6mths ago multi-disk home theader POS, and it will not play burns well at all. However, the very same movie will play great in my $35 Apex DVD player. I have come to find out that the more expenpensive the machine the more cleaner the image they are trying to produce and compressed movies give many of them fits. Cheep machines don't worry about the image quality in this much detail.
Yes the higher the compression rate the worse my chances are. Non compressed movies all play fine for me in any of my DVD players.
So my question is what do you guys think is the best DVD Players out there for playing backup movies? Or if not has anybody done any research on what media is best for specific players.
tks
thanks