Cynthia

I guess so.

Perhaps a cleaning disc could be worth a try. Like this one. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hama-DVD-Laser-Cleaning-Disc/dp/B00005UPDF

Same packages of the discs you used earlier or a new one?

Same spindle of discs as before?

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632

Where did you download the installation file? The one from the ImgBurn server should be ok.

Perhaps try with some Verbatim discs.

There is a later firmware version. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/DH-16A6S/files.html

8x might be to fast. Tried 4x?

Can you see it in Windows Device Manager? Tried it in another computer?

Sounds as you need to buy a double layer disc.

It will burn them. The question is just how good job it will do.

Slimline. I would go for a full height ones, as they are better. The construction of a slimline is just to weak.

Think you should try to get some Verbatims first and if those also fails, then get a new burner. What happens if you insert the burned disc and switch to read mode? Can it read the disc?

Most burners book type DL to DVD-ROM by default. The N/A means that the normal commands that ImgBurn sends to the burner for this task are not recognized/supported by the burner. Only a full burn + verify or that you insert a burned disc in thread mode and post the Disc Info will tell you/us this.

One of the myths about burning. Low speed is not always equal to best burn quality. Program Memory Area Update Failure is common with Lite-Ons and Samsungs. Seems to be a bug in the firmware.

Shouldn't be an issue to run a firmware update under Windows 7. But you don't need to do it as you already have the latest version.

I would try with Verbatims. Have you tried with another speed than 2.4x like

Normally it only takes some seconds to have the disc ejected and loaded. So five minutes sounds not right. Not the most common media type, so it could be that the burner couldn't read the disc it just burned.

The question is if your burner book typed it to DVD-ROM or not. By posting the Disc Info we would know. Most burners do the change of DL on its own. I would also say that most stand alone players today doesn't care if the disc is book typed or not. Atleast the new ones I bought some weeks ago. In the old time players needed it more.

In your other thread there was a row that book type N/A, so the only way to know how it deals with DL media is to burn a disc and then verify it to see if it changed to DVD-ROM. You could insert the disc you burned (as you aborted the verify stage) and select Read mode and post the Disc Info you see in the right window. That would tell us if it changed or not. The burner is a rebadged Lite-On and HP seems to have broken the default commands for how ImgBurn sends them to the burner.

You need to use another program to convert the DVD to NTSC. http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_pal_to_ntsc.cfm

HP computer?

No idea what model of burner you have so I'm only guessing that the burner doesn't support the book type command. Most burners set the book type of DL media to DVD-ROM by them self. Have you tried to burn a disc?

ImgBurn burns the files as they are and doesn't change any video or sound so the problem is how the files were created. If you play the source files you used for the burning, I do think they are with no sound.