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like I said before I have only had coasters by burning image files with Memorex/Ritek media, burning VOB files fine, no errors. The final product though should not look any different than a Verbatim DVD burn, correct?

so, even the quality of a successful burn is compromised by inferior media? surely not, seems that would only depend on the source and rip, then again I cannot even read those charts. Help me out here, so you can actually see visual difference in a burn to a Verbatim DVD?

I downloaded the ISO, doh! I don't mean to be an asshole, it's just odd that extracting the VIDEO_TS folder from the ISO seemed to solve the problem for me, unless of course they were bad DVDs before, 3rd ones a charm perhaps. I haven't had any problems with Memorex burning from VIDEO_TS folders, only with burning ISOs, so I will just stick to cheap media that way (my DVD player reads them flawlessly). I'll consider Verbatim in the future for image burns when the price goes down. These companies are comparable to pharmaceutical companies with the highway robbery they get away with!

Utter BULLSHIT. So are your disc's. Your expertise is needed elsewhere, first left at loserville. Yeah, and the explanations (or lack thereof) of errors here are utter bullshit! The usual: "Update your firmware, try Verbatim media", over and over again. Do you guys work for Verbatim or something? Explain my extracting the VIDEO_TS folder from the ISO image and then burning without errors; no updated firmware, same Memorex media. Oh I know, I just happened upon a good disc amongst all the shitty ones in the spindle, right? p.s.--dontasciime, do you always personally attack people on tech forums? you feel like more of a man by doing so?

sorry, but it seems rather redundant to start a new thread when I am having the exact same problem, regardless of hardware or media. By the way, I don't believe it is firmware or the media. I extracted the VIDEO_TS folder from the ISO and burned it that way, no errors (I would recommend this to others having issues). It seems to me that IMG burn does not work well with image files (ISO at least. god forbid I blame software bugs but it's true in my case!)

Hard to imagine these errors just being media related. I just started having the same error, specifically burning an ISO file with MDS. I usually don't have trouble with VIDEO_TS folders. My next attempt (coaster) will be with the ISO extracted to VIDEO folder. I wish someone here could explain the errors in detail, here's my log: I 19:19:54 ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 started! I 19:19:54 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 19:19:54 Initialising SPTI... I 19:19:54 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:19:54 Found 1 DVD?RW! I 19:20:05 Operation Started! I 19:20:05 Source File: D:\DVD temp\The Illusionist\The.Illusionist.2006.NTSC.DVD9 (CINEMATIK EXCLUSIVE)\THE_ILLUSIONIST_2006_NTSC_DVD9_CINEMATIK.MDS I 19:20:05 Source File Sectors: 3,865,777 (MODE1/2048) I 19:20:05 Source File Size: 7,917,111,296 bytes I 19:20:05 Source File Volume Identifier: THEILLUSIONIST_D2 I 19:20:05 Source File Implementation Identifier: MEI I 19:20:05 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 19:20:05 Destination Device: [1:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D 1.23 (E:) (ATA) I 19:20:05 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RITEK-D01-01) (Speeds: 2.4x) I 19:20:05 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 19:20:05 Write Mode: DVD I 19:20:05 Write Type: DAO I 19:20:05 Write Speed: MAX I 19:20:05 Link Size: Auto I 19:20:05 Test Mode: No I 19:20:05 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 19:20:05 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,935,120 I 19:20:05 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc I 19:20:31 Filling Buffer... I 19:20:31 Writing LeadIn... I 19:20:33 Writing Image... I 19:20:33 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1935119) I 19:40:45 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1935120 - 3865776) W 19:59:11 Failed to Write Sectors 3693008 - 3693039 - Write Error W 19:59:11 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:16 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 19:59:16 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:25 Retrying (21)... W 19:59:25 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:26 Retrying (22)... W 19:59:26 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:28 Retrying (23)... W 19:59:28 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:36 Retrying (24)... W 19:59:36 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write W 19:59:37 Retrying (25)... W 19:59:37 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write E 19:59:38 Failed to Write Sectors 3693008 - 3693039 - Write Error I 19:59:38 Synchronising Cache... I 19:59:39 Closing Track... I 19:59:43 Finalising Disc... E 19:59:53 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error - Incomplete Track in Session E 19:59:53 Failed to Write Image! E 19:59:53 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:39:47 I 19:59:53 Average Write Rate: 3,151 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,360 KB/s (2.4x) I 20:00:19 Close Request Acknowledged I 20:00:19 Closing Down... I 20:00:19 Shutting down SPTI... I 20:00:19 ImgBurn closed! ; ;