15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
11:20 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Jim Leonard wrote:
Not to be overtly crude, but I call bullshit on that statement. I have
never had this happen, and even if I suspected such behavior, wouldn't a
single test of "burn it here, test it there" dispel such a myth?
CPU speed and blank DVDrs are cheap enough
nowadays that this adds 1%
of effort to a process that gives me 3-4x more reliability.
... until you find a few years down the line that your burner was
producing CDs that refuse to work in any of the hardware you can now lay
your hands on. The media may be ok, but it's only as good as the
thing you're trying to
read it in - and experience has been that there's a huge amount of
incompatibility out there :-(
The only incompatibility that I see on a regular basis is using
rewritable media. Rewritable media is touchy, I'll admit. But for
write-once media (CD-R), I've had no reproducable problems except for
*one* instance where my SBPRO+1X CDROM couldn't read CDs burnt at
anything higher than 1X -- big deal, I take the CD back out, copy it
onto another at 1X, and now the old CDROM drive reads it.
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