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12 hours ago, dbminter said:
The difference is in the clear plastic exterior. The DVD+R DL's are thicker on top so they don't stack with older ones where the top is thinner.
I don't know why DVD+/-R uses MCC and DVD+R DL uses MKM.
Ah ok, I see now.
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11 hours ago, dbminter said:
As Scary Gary Alan said, "It's New Year's resolution time! Kiss another year goodbye! These New Year's resolutions are just another pack of lies!"
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Happy New Year Everybody! May 2024 bring us great moments in our lives and I am sure it will be a great year for all of us! Stay safe and good luck to everyone in another duration of 365 days! I hope everyone can achieve their new year's resolutions and their goals!
Happy Burning
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On 12/29/2023 at 11:47 AM, dbminter said:
I've found use in keeping old spindles. Verbatim changed the style of spindles they ship their DVD+R DL in so they only stack with those kinds of spindles. They don't stack with standard spindles. So, when I get new supplies of DVD+R DL, I have to put them in one of the older spindles so they'll stack properly. A real pain.
Yeah I agree the old spindles are useful. How did the spindles change, I thought they're all just the same where you slide the disc on the pole in the center of the spindle and keep on stacking them?
On 12/29/2023 at 11:47 AM, dbminter said:DataLife Plus will be either MCC or MKM Mitsubishi media. MCC for DVD+/-R and MKM for DVD+R DL.
Ah ok, thanks for that. I have always wondered what that slight difference was. I know one is Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and the other is Mitsubishi Kagaku Media but I never understood why they are both differently used for different kinds of discs.
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On 12/24/2023 at 1:22 PM, dbminter said:
Interestingly enough, I just noticed. It's cheaper to buy 2 of the 50 disc spindles than the 100 tape wrapped stack! Not only do you save a few dimes, you get 2 50 disc cake stack holders which aren't included in the tape wrapped offering.
Oh yeah that's actually a better deal. I just recently got the CMC Pro CD-Rs and they come in tape wrap so I reused my old spindles so I can easily store them. Very nice feature of spindles.
18 hours ago, dbminter said:Those cheaper priced DVD-R are still the high quality MCC Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation discs. Just got them today and checked them out.
Cool, that's nice. I guess everything that's Verbatim DataLifePlus is considered MCC. I don't think the brand is going anywhere so yeah.
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Happy Holidays Everyone!
And get well soon, wish you the best of health during this time of year!🎅🛷🦌🎁❄️☃️
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20 hours ago, dbminter said:
I wish my alma mater had offered German courses as I took it all the way to German III in high school and I'm fairly comfortable in that language. But, my college only offered French and Spanish. So, I took French as the "closest" to German.
Ah cool. I am in Spanish 3 right now and you can go all the way up to AP Spanish which I think is the route I am going to take, You could do IB Spanish as well but I feel that's slightly off track from the path I would like to take.
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1 hour ago, dbminter said:
10th grade Christmas for me was 1989. The big Christmas gift I was waiting for was Robocop for the NES.
Ah yes, the classic.
1 hour ago, dbminter said:Well, what I majored in is a long story. I can tell you what my degree is in, but it's not what I majored in. I wanted a degree in computer science with a mathematics minor, but ended up with a mathematics degree and no minor.
Ah ok cool, that's actually what I am planning to major in, computer science as well. I am currently taking AP Computer Science Principles and I think the course will help me on my journey. As for a minor, I think I could minor in a language such as Spanish as I am really strong in my Spanish classes too. I love math so a minor in mathematics would also be helpful. Plus, it correlates directly with computer science.
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4 minutes ago, dbminter said:
30 years ago, I was having my 2nd Christmas season in college.
Ha, that's nice. The Christmas season definitely brings back some good memories. I am actually in high school right now in 10th grade as a sophomore. If you don't mind me asking, what did you major in for college?
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4 hours ago, dbminter said:
Yes, CMC Pro discs should be Taiyo Yuden. I don't remember if I used their CD-R or DVD-R, though. I know what I did try a few years ago were quality Taiyo Yuden MID's and they burned and played fine. Which leads me to believe the MID's weren't faked. And one other user on these forums has had the same experience as they pointed out the CMC Pro discs for me to try.
Alright, thanks for clarifying.
The pack should arrive tomorrow if all goes well and I should be able to test them. Tomorrow is the last day of my mid term exams and my winter break will begin so I will have plenty of time to play around with them. I will definitely post back here on the forum with how everything goes so anyone interested in buying CMC Pro Media will gain some information.
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On 12/17/2023 at 10:28 AM, dbminter said:
I would say it's not a case of fake MID's. It's easy to fake an MID, but not so much to fake the branding labels on top of the discs. If you're going to fake an MID, you're trying to pass off cheap as quality in order to make money. Faking the branding would dip into those profits. It's most likely just a change in manufacturing process. The firmware update reflected that change. And it might have been possible had I had any of the inkjet discs that were manufactured at the same time as the branded, they would have failed, too. Running changes during production are not uncommon. Quality Verbatim MCC DVD-R were rendered useless on the NS60 at one point because of a running change in manufacturing that a firmware update fixed.
I understand now. I have never really had too many firmware updates on drives that fixed things because I couldn't get any updates since most of my drives are quite outdated but they work. And I don't use a variety of discs.
Also for the CMC Pro CD-R that I asked about a while ago, did you say they did have a MID of Taiyo Yuden or did they not? I am just asking because I just ordered a 100 pack from B&H PhotoVideo and I just wanted to clarify. I think I remember you saying that they read fine in your PS3 console too and that they burn well in your drives.
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On 12/17/2023 at 10:33 AM, dbminter said:
LG is sort of 50/50. They sometimes listen to me. For instance, the running change on MCC DVD-R I mentioned. They fixed that in a firmware update. However, I've told them for years their firmware for Verbatim BD-R only writes at 12x to 16x rated media.
Ah ok I understand now. Regardless of the speed, as long as it writes to the discs is the main thing that matters but yes it would be better if it could also write at the rated speed properly. Definitely beats Pioneer.
On 12/17/2023 at 10:33 AM, dbminter said:Yeah, I think Amazon just had some really good Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. I intended on getting a Samsung T7 2 TB USB SSD this month. It was listed at $129 but dropped to $99 around Black Friday/Cyber Monday. So, I went ahead and ordered one early. Now, they're back up to $129. So, it looked like this year the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals were better than their Christmas deals.
Yeah, nice steal.
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18 hours ago, dbminter said:
LG's are the best of what is available. Everyone else has a fatal flaw. The NS40 used to have that one fatal flaw of not writing to DL BD media. Don't know if it's still present or not. The NS60, while it had faults like only writing at 12x to 16x Verbatim BD-R, had no fatal flaws, just faults. Well, Pioneer's BDR-213 doesn't have any fatal flaws on its current firmware. Just a lot of faults that add up: writing 8x DVD+RW at only 6x, writing 8x DVD+R DL at only 2.4x, etc. And, the 213 DID REINTRODUCE the 8x DVD+RW writing fatal flaw AFTER having removed it and THEN removed it again with the last firmware.
Yeah, good luck with Pioneer 🤣
18 hours ago, dbminter said:Sometimes you get things you can't explain. I had a Pioneer that would write to 8x DVD+R DL that were inkjet printable but NOT to the branded discs. BOTH were Verbatim DataLife Plus and BOTH had the SAME MID of MKM-003. A firmware update eventually fixed it, but I can't explain HOW such a problem existed before or HOW it could have been cured.
You said MIDs could be faked potentially, is there a possibility that the branded ones were faked and the inkjet ones weren't? And maybe the firmware update fixed the ones that have been faked by using a different write strategy for them?
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18 hours ago, dbminter said:
I was referring to the cheaper, low priced inkjet DVD+R DL from Verbatim DataLife Plus I recently got off of Amazon.com.
Ah yes, now I remember. I visited the previous link you had sent before and the prices have skyrocketed back up, I think Amazon had a really good sale for limited time on them.
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18 hours ago, dbminter said:
Pioneer would do a better job if they'd just LISTENED to me for the past 10 years and fixed the borked 8x DVD+RW write strategies! I provided them ImgBurn logs, ImgBurn error codes, MID's, where I bought the discs, etc. Pioneer just didn't give a damn.
Yeah I think they've just turned into a company where they're reluctant to acknowledge user based feedback. Has LG responded to your feedback about their drives or are they similar to that of Pioneer?
18 hours ago, dbminter said:Yeah, I've seen a few maximum DVD write rates listed as 24x, but I've yet to get such a drive and see any results like that. I've also seen some so called CD-R get write rates in the 50x's, but I've never actually seen that before in the wild.
Ah ok. I would definitely want to get one of those and test them out. If I do I will post me results with them here on the forum. Best Buy sells one of these for just ~$30 so no harm in testing it.
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On 12/10/2023 at 10:14 PM, dbminter said:
No. LG is the best of the worst. LG has the fewest issues. The NS60 had its faults, but no fatal flaws, unlike everyone else. Even LG's NS40 had that one fatal flaw.
Pioneer could POSSIBLY make the BDR-213 usable if they stop dicking around. The 213 initially fixed the 8x DVD+RW issue after a decade... before they put it BACK in! They took it out with the most recent firmware update, but it's still borked. 8x DVD+R DL that only writes at 2.4x. 8x DVD+RW that write at 8x but each subsequent rewrite on them is only 6x.
However, I will preface my initial statement with the caveat that it's about BD drives. I've not used a non-BD drive for a long time. The one BD I had from Lite-On was total trash. Lite-On stopped making them shortly afterwards. Never had a Plextor. Lite-On used to make good DVD drives with one issue: they would randomly introduce skips in playback on DVD+R DL Video discs. The Lite-On BD did it ALL the time; the DVD drives would only occasionally do it.
Yeah I understand that LG is the best now. From both our experiences, I feel LG's firmware has compatibility with most of the discs. I have an ancient lite-on that is a DVD-RW. It burned Verbatim DatalifePlus CD-R beautifully but now it's not writing to them correctly anymore, maybe I have just exhausted it with all of the writing I did. It also burned my Sony DVD+R pretty good but it really wasn't able to perfect verify graphs anymore like it used to so I don't trust it anymore. So I use my LG GP65NB60 for that or my NS40 and they work fine.
Surprisingly, my lite-on also couldn't burn Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-RW since I think the format on those is way different and the dye is more advanced especially for older drives. Those discs will work on all of my other drives just fine. I have to use my 20 year old CD-RWs if I want the lite-on to write to some sort of CD-RW.
Then there's my Matshita which is an internal slim drive in my lenovo thinkpad laptop which I believe is most garbage. The drive doesn't write properly to my Sony DVD+Rs and will introduce skips, it will always fail for Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R at one certain place all the time where the OPC changes so it's not compatible with those discs. However, it writes just fine to Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-RW which I don't get but it works. And an extremely surprising fact is that it writes to the Verbatim Life Series CMC discs just fine but not the Mitsubishi Chemical Corp discs like the Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R I have mentioned. Very quirky.
But every single disc I have used, every single type functions correctly the way it's supposed to on both my LG USB external slim and my NS40. This just goes to show me that LG is reliable for a majority of discs. Yes there are some minor issues like the ones you have pointed out but LG usually gets the job done so yeah.
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19 hours ago, dbminter said:
I burned a 2nd DVD Video disc to one of these "cheaper" MKM 003's. The VIDEO_TS itself spanned across both layers, but, how much data was used, I don't remember. The disc was burnt nearly full, but there was data in addition to VIDEO_TS burned to it. I had a chance to watch this DVD Video from beginning to end and it played fine without problems on my Blu-Ray player.
Well that's great. Also quick recap, when you say the "cheaper" ones, are you referring to the ones that were priced extremely low or the non-printable ones that have colored packing instead of the inkjet printables?
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On 12/9/2023 at 9:52 AM, dbminter said:
Well, I should preface that with they USED to work. Firmware updates can bork disc compatibility all the time. Just look at Pioneer. They're constantly introducing borks into firmware updates that kill off support for discs. So, last time I used the NS40, the MKM 003's DID work. Can't say for certain now.
Yeah, I guess Pioneer could do a better job with testing out the firmware before they release it out, or else they would just be creating more problems for themselves and the users of their drives.
On 12/9/2023 at 9:52 AM, dbminter said:And, the NS40 is the only option now. I've gotten official confirmation from LG for what I already suspected: the NS60 has been discontinued. No more parts or refurbished models are available, they say... yet, they're somehow doing one final replacement for the one I just sent off Thursday. I had suspected as much when you couldn't find the NS60 for purchase anywhere anymore, not even from LG's own web store.
I guess LG's main option as a choice for BD writing is the NS40, I saw one other LG halfheight from Best Buy that I would like to try. It's not a BD burner and it only burns DVDs and CDs. Ah yeah, I found it on the LG store: LG GH24NSB0 https://www.lg.com/us/burners-drives/lg-gh24nsb0-internal-dvd-drive
This drive looks pretty captivating as LG advertises a 24X DVD write, I didn't know that was possible as I thought the only max speed for DVDs is 16X. If my NS40 dies somehow after all of the burning I do on it, I may pick this one up and see how it performs since I would still have my enclosure.
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Ah ok, I see what you're saying. I wish drive manufacturers will a bit more responsible behind their products. It's nice that pioneer does something like that. My two LG drives perform great but I am a person who is a bit more involved in the specifics and I like to know some good information. Without all of these specs, it's hard to pinpoint problems so I agree with you.
Any other good drive companies that are worth buying? Maybe plextor and/or lite-on for example?
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Yeah I thought so because I originally was going to go for an NS60 when I wanted to buy my very first half height drive in an enclosure because I was previously using only slim drives. (They worked fine but I just wanted to try out a half height drive.)
Besides the BD-DL issue with the NS40, were there any other problems that the NS40 contained but the NS60 didn't have.
The latest firmware available for the NS40 is version 1.05 I believe, do you recall if anything has changed with that concerning burning BD-DL?
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On 11/28/2023 at 8:00 PM, dbminter said:
I bought the inkjet printable ones.
I've used discs similar to these on the NS40 in the past. MKM 003's. They worked fine back then, but it's been years since I used the NS40.
Ah ok, that's good now that I know the NS40 will work just fine with those kinds of discs. I haven't really found any discs that don't really work with the NS40 but I guess that's perhaps because I don't use a variety of disc formats.
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On 11/26/2023 at 10:19 AM, dbminter said:
And the ISO read completed and processed fine. So, these "cheaper" Verbatim DVD+R DL discs do appear to be the good stuff, just cheaper.
Are you referring to the inkjet printables that were sold for $25 or the ones with the purple label and it said "AZO" on them? Did you also test those discs on your NS60 or your pioneer drive. I was just wondering because if they work on the NS60, I would hope that would have a good chance of working on the NS40 as well.
Also the price of the inkjet printables changed from $25 to now $33.
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4 hours ago, dbminter said:
The problem with the NS40 was, for a long time, and it may have finally been fixed with a firmware update since I last checked, it did not write properly to DL BD discs. It wasn't just my findings, either. Others on this board and I discovered 9 times out 10, DL BD media would fail Verify.
Oh yeah I remember now. When I was looking at the NS40 to buy it, I was reading up no some reviews on it online and also here at the forum. I recall that you posted some things in the past about it not writing to dual layer BD media. As for me, the NS40 works completely fine since I never really burned BD-R discs before so the primary problem with the drive wouldn't even apply to me.
4 hours ago, dbminter said:There's never any rhyme or reason why an LG optical drive, and it's more than just NS40's and 60's, will fail to read a particular disc. And it's not just DVD-R but pressed Blu-Ray and DVD Video discs as well.
Yeah I agree, with the two LG drives that I have, the NS40 and the NB60, the latter being the USB slim drive, they both work well and read pretty much every disc I have given it.
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On 11/19/2023 at 4:44 PM, dbminter said:
My order arrived and near as I can tell, even though they're like 4 times less in price, the MID does say they're MKM-003's. So, they appear to be the good stuff. Although I don't have anything in need of burning right now to a DVD+R DL, so I can't test to make sure they work okay. If I can remember, I'll be sure to use one of these new ones first on my next need to burn DVD Video to a DVD+R DL.
Ah ok that's great. Whenever you get around to test them, I am sure they will still perform just the same since they are made by MKM so yeah.
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Just wanted to say my opinions here. Personally, I feel like the software is doing just fine the way it is right now. At least for the methods I use it for, I encounter no bugs whatsoever and the performance is by far superior to any other burning application I have used until I stumbled across ImgBurn. It's light, it's easy to navigate, and it gets the job done which is the most important aspect of it. Heck ImgBurn runs fine on this 20 year old laptop I have going that I use for burning and it handles it quite nicely which I am using right now to type this.
We should be thankful that Lightning UK still has a forum going for ImgBurn and is still taking time out of his life to still aid us folks who still need assistance. LUK should continue to spend time with his family and maintain other things that are much more of priority than ImgBurn itself. The software is in a decent state already and I find it hard to tell that the latest version is from 2013 honestly. I am sure LUK will come back to developing once he believes the time is right for himself. It's personally his choice and we have to respect that.