":::Jerry::::" wrote in message
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Why? Does a brand only have to be available in high street stores to be
"recognizable" then?

Yes, as I've pointed out, just saying that something is popular on a web
site is cheap, so is stocking them in cheap warehousing (or even only
buying
in what you then ship out...), OTOH for a retail outlet to carry stock on
an
expencive shelf will mean that it must sell (although there are exceptions
to this - notably 'sheds' and supermarkets).

But that does not prove that they are popular or even half decent quality,
just cheap...

I have no idea where you are coming from here.
The point you made was that you had never heard of datawrite as they were
not a brand you thought "recognisable".
As I and others have pointed out - they are in fact one of the largest DVD
brands.
Whether they only available on-line or in stores is irrelevant. They are
still a large well recognised brand, with a very good reputation.

Similarly Ritek (ridisk, ridata) who I and others also suggested.
http://www.ritek.com/
You wont find these in many high street stores either. Yet they are one of
the worlds biggest manufacturer of DVD media, and whose products have one of
the highest reputations for quality.
Yet because you cannot buy them in your local WH Smiths you are going to
dismiss them or Datawrite? Weird.

Loz

In message , loz
writes

":::Jerry::::" wrote in message
...
Why? Does a brand only have to be available in high street stores to be
"recognizable" then?

Yes, as I've pointed out, just saying that something is popular on a web
site is cheap, so is stocking them in cheap warehousing (or even only
buying
in what you then ship out...), OTOH for a retail outlet to carry stock on
an
expencive shelf will mean that it must sell (although there are exceptions
to this - notably 'sheds' and supermarkets).

But that does not prove that they are popular or even half decent quality,
just cheap...

I have no idea where you are coming from here.
The point you made was that you had never heard of datawrite as they were
not a brand you thought "recognisable".
As I and others have pointed out - they are in fact one of the largest DVD
brands.
Whether they only available on-line or in stores is irrelevant. They are
still a large well recognised brand, with a very good reputation.

Similarly Ritek (ridisk, ridata) who I and others also suggested.
http://www.ritek.com/
You wont find these in many high street stores either. Yet they are one of
the worlds biggest manufacturer of DVD media, and whose products have one of
the highest reputations for quality.
Yet because you cannot buy them in your local WH Smiths you are going to
dismiss them or Datawrite? Weird.

I have little doubt that ":::Jerry:::" only buys from PC World, and
judging by his opinions here, takes every word uttered by the droids
there as being gospel.

--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

"Tony Morgan" wrote in message
...
snip

I have little doubt that ":::Jerry:::" only buys from PC World, and
judging by his opinions here, takes every word uttered by the droids
there as being gospel.


No I don't, but you do and have said so on this group.

Dave Hall wrote:

But that is exactly what happened with my ones. I could play them
fine on the computer with WinDVD but they stuttered and jumped, hung
etc on the domestic player. Exactly the same symptoms. Now that I
use TMPEnc to burn they play anywhere. Give it a try. I bet that is
the reason!

As it turned out, this would indeed appear to be the problem. I've been
using the trial version of Ulead Mediastudio Pro over the last couple of
days, and the burn from that works fine n my domestic player. The source
video and audio clips were the same as the ones I used for the dodgy burns
done in other software. I'm not sure what settings I used - I just took the
720x576 PAL DVD defaults that MSP uses. (Burned onto a DVD+R at 8x speed.)


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