In article , Lawrence
D'Oliveiro writes
In article ,
Tim Mitchell wrote:

In article , Lawrence
D'Oliveiro writes
In article ,
Tim Mitchell wrote:

A DVD recorder with hard disk will give you the instant playback and the
ability to burn a DVD instantly. You might not even need the hard disk,
you could just record it straight to DVD. There is the slight risk of it
messing up the DVD and losing the recording if you do this.

Is that more likely than a hard disk crash?

Oh yes, far more likely. DVD recorders are notorious for producing
unreadable disks.

I've made over a hundred on my Pioneer DVR-520H so far, and haven't
noticed any failures.

So have I, but the fact remains that the probability of a hard disk
failure is much smaller than the probability of a failed DVD being
produced.
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Tim Mitchell

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:00:15 +0100, Tim Mitchell
wrote:

In article , Lawrence
D'Oliveiro writes

I've made over a hundred on my Pioneer DVR-520H so far, and haven't
noticed any failures.

So have I, but the fact remains that the probability of a hard disk
failure is much smaller than the probability of a failed DVD being
produced.

Infinitely so for me at the moment. I bought a box of Dysan DVD-R
printable DVDs, the first three or four wrote fine and read back without
problems in my DVD player (and in the PC), now all of them end up as
'coasters' which won't even verify immediately after writing in the same
drive[1]! The same data writes file to an Imation DVD-R and to DVD-RW
(both of which play fine on both PC and the DVD player).

I've also seen a report recently that DVD-Rs tend to only last for a few
years, some failing after less than a year...

[1] These are before printing, I'm not wasting ink on a 'coaster' so I
test them first...

Chris C

In article , Chris Croughton
writes
Infinitely so for me at the moment. I bought a box of Dysan DVD-R
printable DVDs, the first three or four wrote fine and read back without
problems in my DVD player (and in the PC), now all of them end up as
'coasters' which won't even verify immediately after writing in the same
drive[1]! The same data writes file to an Imation DVD-R and to DVD-RW
(both of which play fine on both PC and the DVD player).

I had a case of one disc failing to read the instance it was finalised.
Both the DVD and the DVDR were the same make so there should be no
incompatibility problems. The disc did play, however, on a different
brand of player.
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Peter Pratten
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