[Guide] DVD Recordable Formats

[Preemo]

Stick with known brands. I recommend:

-- TDK

-- Kodak

-- Verbatim

I'd recommend MEMOREX and MAXELL brands as well. Never had a single coaster when burnt right.

[nekrosoft13]

All the discs I have say 4.7GB of DATA.  So Hmm.

they say that but thats not true

look in nero, how much you can actually burn

just like when you buy a 120gb hard drive, its not 120gb, usally 112gb

and about the media

only good media is

ritek

tdk

and verbatin

ritek makes oem media for other companys, including maxwell and bunch more

the problem is not all maxwell are ritek, sometimes you might get inferior media

[Liquid]

I'd recommend MEMOREX and MAXELL brands as well. Never had a single coaster when burnt right.

I have had 2 coasters of Maxell and 1 of Memorex. I'll stick with the brands I have tried and I know are good. I forgot to add Ritek, tahnks for reminding me Nekrosoft, I will update my guide too let people know about the disc size.

[Le_gin]

great guide, clears a lot of things up,great explanations, thanx

[Tomi]

Memorex is also a good brand. ;)

Great guide. I always wondered what the diff between - and + was. [the real definition, not the definition the guy at future shop told me "+ is latest technology.." :laugh:]

[nekrosoft13]

I have had 2 coasters of Maxell and 1 of Memorex. I'll stick with the brands I have tried and I know are good. I forgot to add Ritek, tahnks for reminding me Nekrosoft, I will update my guide too let people know about the disc size.

no problem liquid

here is a visual description of DL media

[Vignesh]

This guide rocks, thanks a lot!!!

[kaptain chump]

can you overburn a dvd? why would these dvd discs say 4.7 if they really cant write 4.7 gb woth of data? false advertising anyone?

[Viserov]

^ The same reason why a 120GB hard drive really isn't 120GB. Flawed rounding.

So, which is better: Dual Layer or Double Sided?

[Larney]

Thank you for the guide and as per usual great add-on bangbang023 (Y) :p

[DarkLordSouron]

thanx for the review :yes:

[jymi]

useful read, thankyou

[insanekiwi]

useful guide. thanks alot mate (Y)

[Storm]

Nice guide :)

Im using DVD+RW with my new Recordable DVD player :)

Bought 10 disks for ?10:DD

[ROM3000]

This is a great guide. Summerizes everything very nicely. Thanks

I have one question though. I have some TDK 4x DVD+R discs which I have been burning DVD on them at 1x and 2x. So far I haven't had any coasters, thankfully, but I wanted to know if I should increase my write rate up to 4x for a better quality burn. I had put it at 1x, because with CD-Rs I noticed that you can get skips and pops in song if you burn to quick. I assumed that it would also be better to burn slower on a DVD aswell. Could someone please clear this up for me, please. Thanks.

Oh and one more thing, do I need to have a dual layer burning drive to burn DVD-DL? I currently have one that burns one layer I guess.

[ROM3000]

Could someone please help me with the question above. I would really like to know what speed I should set my drive at. Please

[ncoday]

TDK is a good brand. As long as you have a good DVD burner (Plextor, Sony, NEC), I would set the burning speed at the max, 4x

[DarkMindsProject]

yes you need a DL burner to burn DL's

[drgrudge]

A good and useful guide. (Y)

[greatis]

Sweet guide well done. Very Informative

[Hurmoth]

Nice guide thanks (Y)

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

good guide

I love my DVD-HDD Recorder from panasonic that supports dvd-ram :yes:

A must

[ROM3000]

Will Nero automatically Burn an ISO file of a DVD to the second layer of a DVD-R DL or will there need ot be splitting?

[tinyman]

Very nice guide

Short and sweet! Very informative

[riahc3]

Sorry for the bump but someone might wanna add DVD-R Double Layer now that its out....So it can be a complete guide.