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I would have lay the blame on the manufacturer of the media. CMCMAG is CMC Magentics. 50% of the time, their stuff won't finish writes, so, it doesn't surprise me that their stuff won't finish erasing/formatting either. It could also be that your drive doesn't like CMC BD-RE so it may be down to the drive, but, either way, I'd blame CMC for it. Did you buy these in a store or online? If you bought them in a store, what company label is on the packaging so I'll know to steer clear of them. I've only ever used 3 BD-RE's. 1 Sony which died after 5 writes, typical Sony quality. Several Memorex BD-RE which are made by Ritek. 1 Verbatim which is made by Verbatim/Mitsubishi. Oh, looks like LUK replied at the same time I was replying.

The only Nazisploitation I've ever seen is Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS. About the only use for the picture is if you like copious amounts of female nudity. Hell Of The Living Dead used to completely banned. Now, it's been passed uncut for like the past 11 years.

It had been looking good as some of the Video Nasties were finally being released uncut. Yes, Nazisploitation, like Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler.

Does the BBFC still edit UK home video releases like they did during the days of the Video Nasties?

I use UltraISO to do what you're describing.

I've no problem with being quoted. It's Confucius who must be sick of it after all this time.

Surely after thousands of years, Confucius must be fed up with people claiming they are quoting him all the time.

Confucius say, "STOP QUOTING ME!"

What are you talking about?

It's not just Sony. My Panasonic player does the same thing. Sony has its own myriad problems but this one can't rest squarely on their shoulders.

Of course one can convert a DVD to Blu-Ray using reauthoring software. The point is it shouldn't be necessary! Players should play the content based on what content is on the disc, NOT based on the type of media that is inserted into it. Meaning, if it has a VIDEO_TS folder, play it as a DVD.

They half did the job. They fit the holes fine, but, the side panel wouldn't fit back into place with some of the screws in place. There are 2 screw holes per side for the optical drives, and with screws in the rear hole, the side panel will slide back into place. With screws in the forward holes, though, the panel will not fit back because the side panel is not flat on the side. It's got ridges and grooves in it. So, I can only have screws in the rear holes. It seems to do the trick, though. The drives don't move too much when the eject buttons are pressed, so, it appears that just the one screw in the rear is enough.

For anyone who is curious, I burned a DVD Video image to a BD-RE to see if it would play as a DVD in a standalone Blu-Ray player. These players do NOT play the DVD. Standalone players apparently check the media type of the disc that is inserted and then perform whatever checks they perform on them based on the media inserted instead of looking for, say, VIDEO_TS, exclusively. The PS3 will play the streams as a Data DVD, but will not play a DVD menu because it does not recognize them as DVD Video discs. My Panasonic player recognized it as a BD-RE but opened up a photo browser interface for it.

I usually pass along the lyrics for some kind of cynical song at Christmas time, because I'm cynical about the holiday. But, I've pretty much run the gamut of those songs that I really know of. So, I've gone a different route this year. One of my favorite Christmas songs, believe it or not, that you've probably never heard of. The Little Blue Bell. Part of me likes to still believe that the lyrics are possible, that a miracle can come along and change things. But, most of me knows it doesn't. At Christmas time in the steeple high, the bells would proudly ring To tell the world of the joy and cheer that Christmas day would bring But, one little bell in the steeple high Could only hang alone and cry No matter how he'd try and try Poor little thing He couldn't ring At all All the other bells in the steeple high saw all his lonely tears And watched him try his best to ring each Christmas through the years But the little blue bell in the steeple tall Just cried when Christmas came to call Oh like I said in spite of all Poor little thing He couldn't ring At all One Christmas eve in the steeple high an angle did appear She smiled and said to the little blue bell, "I've come to dry yours tears." And on that night so the story's told She changed the little blue bell to the purest gold With the richest tone to hold and hold Proud little thing, Just hear him ring

That link does help a lot. So, 6-32 screws won't fit the hole for an M3 screw that holds an optical drive to the case? Basically, what I'd like to find are thumbscrews that are M3, it seems. I think this may be basically what I'm looking for? http://www.frozencpu.com/products/13513/scr-259/Dimastech_M3_Thread_Thumbscrew_-_10_Pack_BT016.html?tl=g4c157s1266&id=M5Saidgk

What size are the screws that hold CD/DVD drives onto the side of the interior case of a PC? Are they the same size or smaller than so called PC Computer Case thumbscrews? Does anyone know?

I, too, have no idea. As I said, the only thing I could find on Google was double sided DVD-RAM. Now, if there were such a thing, a double LAYER DVD-RAM would make sense as an answer to this question.

Unfortunately, for what I need the disc to do, I can't remove anything. It's a bootable recovery media for Acronis True Image that contains the 2 files in an image backup. I need the bootable recovery because I no longer use Acronis, but, may need to restore that backup's data someday. So, what I did was split it across 2 bootable DVD-R's, one each of the backup image files per disc. I doubt I'll try a modified firmware for this drive as I've already ordered a replacement LG. It's only been 5 months and it's already started failing to write to BD-RE that it was writing to and returned failed to read sector errors on Verifies of DVD+R DL. Plus, this LG drive has BDXL capabilities that my drive didn't. Anyway, that LiteOn appeared to be problematic from the start. The first DVD Video DVD+R DL I burned on it had to be reburned because of a skipping in playback. The first BD-RE I fed it, a Sony, failed before it had been written to 5 times. I had pegged it down to the Sony quality issue, but, now my Memorex Riteks that the drive was writing to before are getting Miscompares on Verifies and Reflect returned Cyclic Redundancy Errors while writing to BD-RE.

One of the disc sizes in UltraISO is 9.4 GB. But, what media is this? I Googled 9.4 GB and all I found was double sided DVD-RAM. Which leads me to believe these are 4.7 GB a side, so, it's not the 9.4 GB file size listed in UltraISO. Any ideas?

Is it possible to Overburn a DVD+R DL? I ask because I have an image that is only 90 MB over the listed maximum size for a DVD+R DL when I go to burn the image. Image size 4,219,968 sectors (8,242 MB). Disc size 4,173,824 sectors (8,152 MB). The image was created by UltraISO which says there is 99% used of the 8.5 GB space with 28 MB free. I tried selecting Overburn, but, ImgBurn wouldn't write to the media at all. Forgot the log, sorry! I 17:02:32 ImgBurn Version 2.5.7.1 Beta started! I 17:02:32 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 17:02:32 Total Physical Memory: 8,370,632 KB - Available: 6,454,068 KB I 17:02:32 Initialising SPTI... W 17:47:19 User accepted disc space warning and is attempting to overburn! I 17:47:19 Operation Started! I 17:47:19 Source File Sectors: 4,219,968 (MODE1/2048) I 17:47:19 Source File Size: 8,642,494,464 bytes I 17:47:19 Source File File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), UDF (1.02) I 17:47:19 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-003-00) I 17:47:19 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x I 17:47:19 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 17:47:19 Write Mode: DVD I 17:47:19 Write Type: DAO I 17:47:19 Write Speed: MAX I 17:47:19 DVD+R DL Reserve Track: No I 17:47:19 Link Size: Auto I 17:47:19 Lock Volume: Yes I 17:47:19 Test Mode: No I 17:47:19 OPC: No I 17:47:19 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 17:47:19 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 11,080 KB/s (8x) W 17:47:24 Optimal layer break position exceeds L0 capacity. W 17:47:24 Optimal L0 Sectors: 2,109,984 W 17:47:24 Maximum L0 Sectors: 2,086,912 I 17:47:24 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,109,984 I 17:47:24 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: ECC Block Boundary W 17:47:24 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Failed! - Reason: Invalid Field in Parameter List E 17:47:28 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Failed! - Reason: Invalid Field in Parameter List E 17:47:32 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:08 I 17:47:32 Average Write Rate: N/A - Maximum Write Rate: N/A

Came across a Digital Matrix DVD-R MID: AN31 that was still readable to an image file after 8 years. I don't recall where Digital Matrix/AN31 resides on the quality scale, but, I'm passing along this information, anyway.

Came across two Optodisc CMC DVD-R's from 8 years ago. They were from a stack that kept failing to write and verify correctly because they're CMC's. In fact, it was these discs that taught me the hard lesson that CMC is junk. Anyway, I read them to image files just now, so, it just goes to show you the variance in quality of CMC media!

For anyone wondering, I have a somewhat more definitive answer to the question of long the contents written to a DVD-RW last. I came across some Optodisc 2x DVD-RW's that I had burned DVD-Video contents to 8 years ago. I've been reading them to image files and then writing them back to DVD-R's for longer storage longevity. All of these discs have read to image files after 8 years in storage. So, good quality DVD-RW disc contents should last for at least 8 years. Thus, 10 years is probably also a good estimated value for long the contents should last.

I knew it was one of those ways around.

About the only possible problem could be that DVD+RW might store slightly larger capacity than DVD-R. I'm not sure what the maximum capacities for each are, but, I believe + stores slightly more. However, a rewritable might store less because of overhead it needs to be a rewritable. Anyway, this would only come into play if you've written almost all of the available space on the DVD+RW. ImgBurn, though, should tell you if the ISO you're attempting to write to DVD-R is too large for the target media. If you've had no problems writing the DVD+RW source ISO to DVD-R, I don't think you'll encounter any problems other than the possible scenario above.