Someone was asking me for some of the best PJ DVD's, so when I got home & started previewing them.... about 10 of them wouldn't work in the DVD player. Only the Maxell's. I switched to Sony's quite a while ago, but most of my stuff is on Maxell. Some worked, some didn't. So my lesson & that to any new people reading this... USE GOOD MEDIA. I hope I can put 'em back on my PC & reburn them or I'm USC w/ no paddle.

No you're not. They all came from somewhere, you can get them again. You know us. We'll help you out.

Thanks, that's good to know.

I only use TDK or Sony dvds and some times the ones i play less also stop working... never understood why...

Same thing happened to me, then I made the switch to Verbatim and Sony with no problems.

It's even gone beyond manufacturer, because manufacturers will rebrand their own label on media made from different companies. Usually if google enough, you could find out what was different on the labels to grab the good spindles.

Most of my dvd's still work pretty good. Even the Ritek G04's I used way back when burners were only 4x (and ritek made solid media ).

I used a number of maxell's. Just the made in Japan ones. Which were once Taiyo Yuden, and then there own plan in japan. Both still work good (i know back in the day you had to watch out for the spindles made in taiwan). Fuji did the same thing, some were taiyo yuden's, some from other places.

So you had to go above the brand name and look where they were manufactured so you'd actually know which ones you were buy.

As for now, I've been using Verbatim's for years and nothing else. But I am happy my anal retentiveness to which dvd's i've used over the years has paid off and my dvd's still work.

Sorry to hear you'res don't. Really funny thing is back when i start burning dvd's, a friend of mine bought a whole crapload of princo's and told me they were better then the ritek media the time (and ritek was decent when they made 4x media). I swapped him a pair to try them out, and out of all my discs i burned, those are the only two that ever became unreadable.

I think most of my bad discs came from the same spindle of 100. Not good. Most of PJ 2006 is on that. I think I'll just put 'em back on my HD & reburn them & live with a few skips. It's going to take a while to go thru 200+ and find all the bad ones.

ah yeah!

I have a few on my "must have" list that are no good. I'm going to Denver for a week & when I get back I'll have a couple requests if you would be so kind.

Of course. You know where to find me.