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  1. Nobody cares as long they are still making money. But Amazon is rigorous about the 30 day return policy. Argue all you want, they want the vendors to succeed so they can grab their take. I keep getting ever worse products from a certain other country. Complain all you like, Amazon will not care unless it's in the 30 day window...used to be these vendors would honor their warranty. Now I notice most of them don't offer one save "we'll be here for you". What a joke. lol, because that's all you can do. These same idiots will troll you to review their product and sometimes even pay for it with an Amazon gift certificate. I always tell them to kiss off, I don't operate that way. Amazon prevented me from reviewing HDMI switches, would not tell me why. I got nothing but got tarred by the vendor's bad behavior. These vendors will go to incredible lengths to get good reviews, and I'm sure many people that get freebies pop right up and tell the world the product is fine....3 days after owning it. I've told Amazon about this time and time again but they choose to turn their backs on it. How do they know how to contact you? To contact them you have to go through a process. Any ways to get back on track, that you have been able to get a company to actually honor what they say is incredible to me; replace a defective product. No such luck with me. "You paid $100 and used it 3 months so we will give you $30 for your troubles". At least they tell you outright instead of dancing around like Verbatim is doing with me. I told the no-service person that I had been using pc's since before Bill Gates pitched MSDOS to IBM, and that I certainly had burned hundreds and hundreds of discs on optical drives, but it's useless since they have no clue what you're even saying. Play the script and put the suckers off. OK, maybe a little rant. I'm old, I get fed up.
  2. The WH16NS40, and it's predecessor, depending on discs, a good batch of 10 BD-DL would get 8 of 10 for me successful. Other times lucky to get 5/10 to verify, a real crap shoot. I'll have to check into the NS60, maybe first of year I can get a better drive and just stick it in a front bay I've got my motherboard USB C connected to, and just run the C cable out the back to a Pcie slot. This external drive I can't believe reads/burns so slow. I figured it would not do 6x but I hoped for at least 4x. I've ripped a bunch of my BD's in the last few days and burned a few, wish I had done this the first 30 days I had it from the Amazon, I'd tell them to shove it, er, back on the shelf and sell it to some other idiot. Now I just set the read/burn for 2x and it's happy. Got to write, verify a BD50? No problem! Just start it and come back in an hour and a half to shove the tray back in then find something else to do for an hour and a half. lol. Verbatim support kept insisting through a few emails that it "has to be the software" that they use native Windows apps to check the specs. Then lie about them I guess, or maybe it was just the vendor on the Amazon blowing smoke? Have to find out.
  3. I hung on to my LG WH16NS40 in hopes I could revive it. I pulled it out a while ago and the eject button will not work and no light comes on. It will software eject but not retract. I guess I'll just go ahead and junk it. LG BD drives usually last me about a year/year and 1/2 if I'm lucky. Of course after warranty has expired. I have a huge CaseLabs pc case with two pedestals, but I did not have an open bay I wanted to use so after the above drive started showing out I stupidly bought the little verbatim/pioneer exterior drive. Wish I could get my money back and get a Pioneer full size unit; I can always put it on the desk with a long enough power cable (I make my own so that's no problem). In the text file, notice I bolded the vendor's claim of drive speeds being 6x. I want my money back but I've had it since June 2022 so I doubt any luck with Amazon. Verbatim_Amazon.txt
  4. A few years ago, that experience I related about a particular Verbatim DVD DL going sky high? They were up to around $70 on Amazon for a cakebox/spindle of 50. They took a jump from around $35. I see they have come down some now to around $57/50.. The model number is 98319. I dropped a digit in a previous post. These are the datalife plus, white inkjet printable. Never had a coaster from them but too rich for my blood now. They appear to be made in the middle east now. I don't know what the difference is, but the Plexdisc branded inkjet printable Ritek's seem like better discs. But for different branded Ritek the quality is all over the place. The SmartBuy discs are about as cheap as I would go for BD25/BD50 but they aren't particularly good. These days you can get BD25 discs from about anyone and they seem to burn okay, whether they hold up is another story. But it's a real shame about Verbatim. At one time you could say they were some of the best and everyone agreed. Now, not so much for the BD's. A few years ago the BD50 3 pack with the branded white labels were great disks, might still be. For my external drive, I'll just have to deal with it. But it will be the last external slim drive I will buy, even if I have to prop up an internal drive on the desk. Nice chatting with you.
  5. I'm in America. BD discs are always problematic, and for the BD50's if I buy 10 and 8 or 9 burn I'm happy. The Verbatim 9319? double layer DVD discs used to be somewhat affordable and never gave me any problems. So, of course, they jacked the price up to the moon. I even placed an order on Newegg aseveral years ago and the vendor lied and said they ran out...but their own website said they did have them in stock, and a friend in Vegas went to the store and spotted them.Newegg blew me off for the first time ever when I griped about it. But several brands of DVD DL have worked good for me in the past, it's mainly just BD discs that give me fits and anger issues. All discs I buy are inkjet printable BTW. My now deceased LB BD burners never had a problem with DVD DL well, basically from about any brand I guess. Not sure now what to expect out of this external drive now as I've burned no DVD's, just a few BD's a ripped a bunch of my bought BD's. I think the Verbatim BD discs are absolute highway robbery and don't buy them anymore. Actually none of them of any type. I sort of settled in the middle for Plexdisc, and although made by Ritek, I've had pretty good luck with them. I do have several other brands here of DVD DL I'll be curious to see how they fare. Panasonic BD's used to be good but who can afford them? So thanks for the input. I will continue to burn at slow speed and put up with the absolutely abysmal read speeds I guess.
  6. This model is not listed on the Pioneer site, and Pioneer just told me to contact Verbatim. But according to ImgBurn the drive is a Pioneer BDR-UD03, a listing I can not find anywhere, including the site ImgBurn took me to. So after burning 2 BD50 coasters I reduced the write rate down to 2x and it completed successfully, including verifyIng. These BD50 discs are labeled as Plexdisc but are Ritek. I've actually had very good luck with them in the past with internal burners. Can't afford another burner, I'm retired and on a very tight budget. So, to clarify, the first two posts are about Ritek branded 25GB discs; the latter two are about the Plexdisc (Ritek) BD50's. ImgBurn Log.txt
  7. I just made two BD coasters in a row burning at (trying to burn at) 4X. Here's the error message attached. I talked to Verbatim support about slow read/write and they said they all their testing from Windows (Windows media player) and I should adjust the settings from slow to fast. I told them I never burn anything with that crap but used ImgBurn for years. Then they said talk to the software vendor and I explained it's basically free or donation software. Anyway not sure on the coasters. I'm going to give it one more try at 2x with my last BD50 blank. Any help appreciated...
  8. OK so I had to force a shutdown of ImgBurn again with the three finger salute. But I played the disc, well sort of skipping from chapter to chapter after a minute in each, and it plays just fine in my Oppo 103. So I'm puzzled here. Not really understanding as I've never had ImgBurn fail on a disk without telling me....something. But so it goes, I'm not blaming the program, just trying to figure this out.
  9. I recently bought a spindle of Ritek 25GB disks. The first one stalled in the burn process at about 29%, ImgBurn showed no errors and Windows 11 Device Manager says all is good. I had to kill the process with Task Manger. 2nd disk burned fine, is stalled in verification at 98%. I've never seen this before, no errors or complaining from ImgBurn, just stuck at 98% doing nothing. Drive is not spinning either, no light showing on the drive. I'm using a Verbatim external drive (Pioneer BDR-UD03), it's only a few months old and I successfully burned several PlexDisc 25GB disks yesterday. I'm burning .iso files, ripped from my BD disks. .iso's play fine in PowerDVD. So likely problem.... the disks? the drive? Thanks for any information.
  10. Well mostly they are individual dts wav files with a cue file. I've even used ImgBurn to make the cue in the past, or I build one myself. The dts wav files are always 44.1 because of course that's the cd standard. dts files usually appear as stereo files except for an application or player that recognizes the format. All that is fine, but as long as the files are not altered it should not matter what ImgBurn thinks they are, I'm thinking. But having said that, after burning, the files show up in Foobar as 16 bit stereo files instead of 6 (5.1) channel DTS files. That's showing in the images I posted, that opening the cue file in Foobar shows the files playing as 6 channel dts files, but after burning to disc they show up as stereo files, although there is nothing there, no music at all. It's a mystery to me. I burn DVD-R, DVD+R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL very often and DTS-CD's somewhat often, with no problems usually. I tried one set of files/cue in Nero (I don't like to use Nero, I use ImgBurn for everything) and it did just what it was supposed to. So I'm stumped. I'll figure it out eventually, I just wanted to get these two discs burned and finished. Thanks for looking, if any thing occurs please let me know.
  11. ...just burned perfectly with Nero. Still not sure what I'm missing; same old stuff as always; open the cue file with ImgBurn and burn. But something is wrong. I'll keep looking at it.
  12. Hopefully the images show the cue/wav playing as dts in foobar, ImgBurn burning the files, and the files showing (but not playing) as stereo in foobar after burning to disc. I have burned many many dts-cd's in ImgBurn and can't for the life of me figure what is wrong. dts.burn.log
  13. Makes sense. It has only prompted me to select a layer break on a few DVD-A structures...but I can say I've burned a few DL lately and listened in 5.1 and watched whatever was offered in the way of photos/lyrics without the sound being disturbed that I could tell. Thanks,guys!
  14. Hi all. When creating a DVD-Audio DL image using both Audio TS & Video TS folders in build mode, I'm not getting the option to select the layer break when the calculator button is pressed. The Auto checkbox next to the calculator is not selected. When I go ahead and have ImgBurn create the image, I can see in the log that the layer break is created automagically by ImgBurn but with no input by me. This isn't the behaviour I remember from times past, what am I missing or not doing?
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