dbminter

My DVD+R DL's are already out for delivery today. So, I should know some time later today.

I posted the change log in my 2nd post before this one. Not much was changed. Just a new error reporting tool and something about subtitles not displaying correctly.

I wouldn't bet my ass. If I wagered it and lost, I'd no longer be able to say CMC

Well, VSO DID release a new version of ConvertXToDVD... but it was a beta version! 7.0.0.67. 7.0.0.67 Released 2019-10-02 Upgrade bug reporting tools ============================================== 0013678: [Bug] Editable subtitles + Button Overlays => colours change after conversion 0013705: [Suggestion] Even if the project has been saved - it asks again when closing the software 0013715: [Bug] All VSO products not opening for no obvious reason 0013721: [Feature Request] VSO Reporting Tool is not user-friendly. Still, it does show some progress being made on the software. I guess the next gold release won't be until the software goes full blown 64 bit.

What would really suck is to get a mixture. Some cake stacks are the good MCC/MKM stuff and some are the CMC

I have some of the branded ones I use for temporary backups. I believe my order for the DataLife Plus discs came out to $56 before tax.

Amazon.com has already shipped the order I placed today for the Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD+R DL. We'll see what arrives when it does.

There MIGHT be a new release version of ConvertXToDVD "tomorrow." From a post on their support forum: " Jacques is working on the last 32bits version (to have clean versions before jumping to the big work like Coral advice rightfully said once :p) We are 99.99% sure we will release them tomorrow (maybe today but Jacques want the new reporting tool to be perfect) After that, we jump on the huge-amount-of-work 64bits versions. 8) " So, it looks like they will be releasing one last 32 bit version before working exclusively on the 64 bit version. That 64 bit version will probably be the next major release after that.

About inkjet printers. Are they also regular paper printers or just dedicated units for printing CD labels?

Just ordered a cake stack of 50 Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet DVD+R DL's. I'll see what I get. Probably some left over stock of the good MKM stuff.

Each disc has a UDF and ISO9660 label. The limited descriptor label Windows/File Explorer sometimes returns and the longer 128 character one that it sometimes returns. Then, the disc has a folder in the root directory that has some kind of brief description of the contents. And then there may be sub folders with further descriptions.

My discs go in Case Logic carriers. The slots have a Post It on them that tells what each disc in the row of 2 is. Plus, the discs themselves have descriptive labels and directory structures that tell what is on each disc in case one gets filed in the wrong place.

I use the inkjet printable surface discs in case I ever get such a printer, I can print labels to them. If necessary, I can write to them with a CD marker. Or apply stickers, but it's not recommended because even applying stickers to branded discs can cause them to spin unevenly in a drive. Last I checked a decade ago, Ritek made Sony's DVD-R.

My experience has been AZO discs are good. They have the MCC DID on them, which means Mitsubishi supposedly made them. However, of course, DID's can be whatever the manufacturer wants to make of them. I actually never noticed before that the DataLife Plus discs were only printable surface media. Inkjet and thermal labels.

OIC what you're saying. There is a sub-brand of the good stuff called AZO. AZO is the branded surface Verbatim good media you're referring to. I've had those before as well. DataLife Plus is what I get in inkjet label surfaces, and those are what I just received today. DataLife Plus Verbatim DVD+R inkjet printable surface. I still have some left over AZO Verbatim DVD-R back from when I was exclusively using DVD-R before I switched to DVD+R. I use the branded ones for temporary backups I don't want to keep.

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, DataLife Plus is the only good stuff. There's just Life Series, which is CMC, you find in stores, and DataLife Plus which is the good MCC stuff you only find online here in the States.

Amazon.com always adds the cost of shipping to their items. So, it never pays to pay for additional shipping on top. It's always best to gather $25 together for an order since Amazon.com is already factoring in the shipping in the cost for so called "free" shipping. Thus, Amazon.com is initially more expensive, but on par with other online shops which will charge shipping. And you can really only get the good stuff here in the States online. Don't know about elsewhere, but, here, you have to order them online. An interesting question. Verbatim had an online web store for ordering their discs. I wonder if it will still be up with CMC now the owner. I would bet ordering from them would prove relatively soon if CMC is shipping their CMC crap as DataLife Plus.

I'm half tempted to post a picture of the room where I store all my computer stuff to show you how much of a premium space is. But, you're right about it being only being 20 spindles of 50 each. I didn't do the math to see how many spindles that would be. And Amazon.com has 50 spindle DVD+R's for like $20, so that's $400. As for the BD-R's, you can get 50 of the quality stuff for like $36 on Amazon.com. So, for 1,000, that's (1,000 / 50 ) x $36. That's $720!

As I said earlier, I would stock up on a thousand each of DVD+R, DVD+R DL, CD-R, and BD-R, if I had anywhere near the money to do so and if space in my house wasn't such a commodity.

Got my most recent order of DVD+R's made before I found out about the Verbatim sale to CMC. These had the disc label of MCC, which leads one to believe they're the quality stuff. Are they left over stock, though? Or, are they CMC's typical junk just given the DID of MCC to make them look good? Anyone can put anything in the DID filed, and I wouldn't put it past CMC to use trickery with the DID's to pass off their garbage under a good brand name.

It sounds like you have the same DVD as I do, although mine doesn't have a paper label on it. And the extra cartoon can only be "played" in DVDShrink or extracted with DVDShrink and made into its own DVD. My DVD has the two trailers you mentioned along with the radio spot. Although your DVD might be an R2 PAL one it sounds like whereas mine is an apparently region free Chinese made NTSC one. I live close to you, actually. I'm in Owensboro in Kentucky, just on the state line with Indiana before you get to Evansville. Where I was also born and lived most of my life, except for like a 5 year period in Phoenix, AZ. I became disabled in 2007.

Yeah, narrow minded people like to think Song Of The South glorifies slavery, when, it quite clearly states the film is set during Reconstruction. People will always find some cause to rally behind, even if it has no merit. I'm pretty sure my copy is a VHS to DVD conversion given fancy menus. It does have a special feature with a radio spot for the then recently released movie. But, it was the only way I could see it since Disney refuses to even acknowledge the film exists anymore in the United States. I think this DVD might be a bootleg. If you examine the contents in DVDShrink, there's a video stream you can't access anywhere. This stream is of the Warner Brothers banned cartoon Coal Black And Da Seben Dwarfs. It's highly unlikely two cartoons from competing studios would be released on the same DVD if it were authorized.

Let me guess. This movie is Song Of The South. While too many people exploded over that movie for very little valid reason in the United States, Disney continued to distribute it on home video in Europe and Asia. My DVD is a Chinese release, so it's NTSC. Amazingly, it's in English. Disney last released Song Of The South to home video and television in the United States in 1985. Since it's German, makes me wonder if Germany, post war, has ever seen the US WW II propaganda Disney short, Education For Death.

I use 7Zip, but was not aware .ISO was a supported file type for the program. Good to know. Thanks for educating me! Unfortunately, it cannot inject files into an ISO. Just extract the contents out of it. So, I still need UltraISO.

The German DVD might be PAL. If you have a DVD player that supports R2 or the DVD is region free and if you have a TV that supports PAL, then you might be able to play a German DVD if it's in PAL. PAL DVD video is sped up because of the different types of TV's they use. Just a thought.