Grain

You don't have another program running that's accessing your drive(s) do you?

Volvo, that's a trick we play at work, find out what a co-workers password is, hopefully it has a N or M, then switch those keys on his keyboard. One chap had to call IT 'cause he couldn't log in

Nice price, let me know how you like it. Even though they don't have the speed upper hand right now, I'm still an AMD fan. I sometimes wish I'd have waited 1 month when I bot my 4800 X2, which was when AM2 came out. So my next upgrade means new MB & memory too.

Happy Birthday!

I should add, we Canadians do bugger all for Guy Fawkes day. I knew a little about it from when one time when I was in the UK visiting family, and the local town had their fireworks and burned him up. A bit of a tourist town, so that's probably why they do it. Great movie though, I picked it up on HD-DVD, great pic.

Most fireworks are legal in Canada, with the huge exception of firecrackers of any size. I still have some 20 year old "Black Cats" I smuggled in from Montana. Blew a 100 pack off on the millennium eve, and of course a copper drove right up. Told me to keep them on the road, and off he went, lol. No M1's or any good en's available here, but roman candles, no problem, go figure.

Happy belated Birthday, hope it went well!

Now that's a toy Spinner, very nice!

Thanks Guys, took the family to the mountains today, just got back. Was 30C at home, about 22C in the mount's. Stuck our feet in a river, then ran screaming away, water was about 5C!

I didn't take your comments as narky LFC . I'll probably end up with a PS3 also, but I am warming to the 360, so who knows. In the end I still don't care who wins the format war, the HD-DVD discs I'll have will be as good as their BR counterparts (at least so far all movies that have been released on both are equal, eventually BR's greater capacity may prove different), so I'll not need to rebuy them on BluRay. Right now in Canada HD-DVD players are 1/2 price of BR players, so that along with their greater compatibility with older HD-TV sets (component video) decided it for me.

I went with HD-DVD for now LFC as they have decently priced players(it does a nice job up-converting DVD's too) compared to BluRay. Who knows who'll win the war, if anyone, but BR does seem to have the upper hand. Universal is a hard line HD-DVD only supporter, and I couldn't wait to watch the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas HD-DVD I bot some months ago plus Dawn of the Dead(2204) is coming out on HD-DVD only this summer Whatever happens, it won't be the first format I've bot into that's failed, <cough> Laserdisc <cough>. Thing is kirk, it's not the same picture, having watched The Matrix on HD, my DVD of it will never be watched again.

I picked up a Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player over the weekend, watching The Matrix on it right now. Stunning picture.

Thanks Gents, will be hoisting a few Sleeman Honey Brown's to toast you all.

Have a pint of John Smiths for me! Happy B Day!

For some reason got a great Bon Scott AC/DC song going through my head...

Have a good BDAY!

You've got an old drive, and those are pretty new 8X DL discs, that may be the problem. Latest firmware for that drive is a couple years old (as far as I could tell), much older than the media.

The newer LG's are sharpish too.

I however think the Senators are going to win the Stanley Cup this year, and any comments otherwise are only intended for nefarious reasons.

Those Denons were quite picky on which media they liked. Taiyo Yuden 8X -R(TYG02) work extremely well, as do Verbatim 16X - R's(MCC03RG20) both burned at 8X. They don't like DL DVD's much, tend to freeze at the layer break :C , too bad, they're great players.

Hellfire, he'll be some pissed when he sobers up

Excellent flick, I watched Manic Cop the other night, another good 80's slasher w/Bruce the chin Campbell .

Is that the one about the guy who does things, gets in trouble, loses girl, gets out of trouble, gets girl back ?

Like LUK said, when ImgBurn is verifying a burnt disc, it is comparing the disc to the original ISO. As AnyDVD is designed to change data as it's being read from an optical drive, it can make ImgBurn think that the data is not the same as the ISO. It's sort of like running the verify through an unnecessary filter instead of a clean read, hence the possible miscompare.

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.15 (ATA) Media Information: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.15 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD+R DL Disc Information: Status: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 4,173,824 Free Space: 8,547,991,552 bytes Free Time: 927:32:74 (MM:SS:FF) Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x DVD?R DL Boundary Information: L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,086,912 Changeable: Yes Physical Format Information (ADIP): Disc ID: MKM-003-00 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Disc ID: MKM-003-00 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Results: I 10:37:33 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 10:37:33 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 10:37:33 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,488 KB - Available: 1,605,856 KB I 10:37:33 Initialising SPTI... I 10:37:33 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 10:37:36 Found 3 DVD?RWs and 4 DVD?RW/RAMs! I 10:37:54 Operation Started! I 10:37:54 Source File: -==/\/[DISCOVERY IMAGE]\/\==- I 10:37:54 Source File Sectors: 4,173,824 (MODE1/2048) I 10:37:54 Source File Size: 8,547,991,552 bytes I 10:37:54 Source File Volume Identifier: DISCOVERY_IMAGE I 10:37:54 Source File File System(s): None I 10:37:54 Destination Device: [0:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.15 (E:) (ATA) I 10:37:54 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-003-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x) I 10:37:54 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 10:37:54 Write Mode: DVD I 10:37:54 Write Type: DAO I 10:37:54 Write Speed: MAX I 10:37:54 Link Size: Auto I 10:37:54 Test Mode: No I 10:37:54 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 10:37:54 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,086,912 I 10:37:54 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: ECC Block Boundary I 10:38:17 Filling Buffer... (256 MB) I 10:38:18 Writing LeadIn... I 10:38:27 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 4173823) I 10:38:27 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 2086911) I 10:45:05 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 2086912 - 4173823) I 10:52:28 Synchronising Cache... I 10:52:29 Closing Track... I 10:52:35 Finalising Disc... I 10:53:20 Exporting Graph Data... I 10:53:20 Graph Data File: C:\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-112D_1.15_4-21-2007_MKM-003-00_MAX_DISCOVERY_IMAGE.ibg I 10:53:20 Export Successfully Completed! I 10:53:20 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:15:25 I 10:53:20 Average Write Rate: 9,937 KB/s (7.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 13,968 KB/s (10.1x) I 10:53:20 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 10:53:49 Device Ready! I 10:53:49 Operation Started! I 10:53:49 Source Device: [0:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.15 (E:) (ATA) I 10:53:49 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: MKM-003-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x) I 10:53:49 Image File: -==/\/[DISCOVERY IMAGE]\/\==- I 10:53:49 Image File Sectors: 4,173,824 (MODE1/2048) I 10:53:49 Image File Size: 8,547,991,552 bytes I 10:53:49 Image File Volume Identifier: DISCOVERY_IMAGE I 10:53:49 Image File File System(s): None I 10:53:49 Verifying Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 4173823) I 10:53:49 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 2086911) I 11:03:29 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 2086912 - 4173823) I 11:13:10 Exporting Graph Data... I 11:13:10 Graph Data File: C:\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-112D_1.15_4-21-2007_MKM-003-00_MAX_DISCOVERY_IMAGE.ibg I 11:13:10 Export Successfully Completed! I 11:13:10 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:19:17 I 11:13:10 Average Verify Rate: 7,221 KB/s (5.2x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 10,476 KB/s (7.6x) I 11:49:46 Close Request Acknowledged I 11:49:46 Closing Down... I 11:49:46 Shutting down SPTI... I 11:49:46 ImgBurn closed!