Problem writing video to BD-R DL disc.

[dbminter]

To put into comparable prices for apparent DataLife Plus Verbatim inkjet BD-R DL discs, Verbatim in the US apparently doesn't offer them, but Amazon.com has some importers of them from Germany, it seems.

 

https://www.amazon.com/BD-R-DL-50GB-6X-pack/dp/B00QUFWMLE/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2YD46UKK561YZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3gWpbZ2ekZxdGBgtizerJkg6mlALXJhbghE8QPjNkBI1nzy5SNQiPMJ2ejLoekEkaZbkFJTd8EUr8Zbb8RIzMvopV9xUavYMUGGubU6EsO9f91h_tc0aIPmQBAaWKmmyTEPfc77P3wkNzpiYmWT7vseQrNlYNvAcvcTR8jAOsk6CGa47unYygGdui8CtNHXxjv1Ro40j72A9bZ_ldb1Qy3wIk44F4uRzDGvR6KHbZzFsS3Op_PVoR9Ghd3FjqE9zDe8XOcBp9BfvfDgjn3oDNXTsamFXcPCNECfz8zUjO2v_goi38NVPB_EInfID6wr-aWMO_SUhnNYcLS_lnbbLDSMgDkaSdnxUTVSolyHm-88.5F4Ea3Q3xvERx-jnmuW2XgXaE99ewiv-4-sssQDRKXI&dib_tag=se&s=electronics&sprefix=verbatim+bd-r+datalifeplus%2Celectronics%2C277&xpid=-MHB3g-0TTjWO

 

$71 US for 25 6x max discs.  But, they're thermal printable, which makes them more expensive and less easier to print on.

[rlp]

I've been procrastinating a lot but finally just got around to burning the last of my (batch of five) Verbatim blue/white BD-R DL 50GB discs. This time I set the burn speed to 6x (which is what's printed on the disc cases) instead of the 4x I had tried last time it failed. I was a little surprised to get a successful burn this time! (Interestingly, ImgBurn reported that acceptable burn speeds for this type of media was 2x - 8x, but I just went with what was on the case, i.e. 6x).

So out of my initial batch of 5 discs I've had a 60% failure rate... pretty dismal... so I won't be buying these again. Your (positive) experience with the DataLife Plus discs got me checking amazon.ca again. A 25-spindle of the DataLife Plus BD-R DL is now showing at CAD$113.99 (with a 5% discount) which works out to $4.56 each. However, the crap I bought (Verbatim blue/white) is now showing at CAD$57.56 for 5, which works out to $11.51 each, which, obviously, is insane in comparison. Now I just need to convince my wife that spending $113.99 is a great idea. 🤣

https://www.amazon.ca/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-White-Inkjet-Printable/dp/B004HA8IQC/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2GP80CXXNE1SC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eAjMC61Mcdb7Y_h0dB7FqR9WHZMVzNbYjSfuNSUP5B8G2f9Qqu7_GjVr10BR1Bg_KSiEhUgyFqeFV1XLu1siWwJOBaS7ZkC_c5cIDKEu9W9p_3Z5yEcevXMMZxqMjSEXPh_QHeTHmx5f7kuvd6zof_-VK2ngHN0XJPXdkuwwpJymDtSrZP59Dw95LXofwvcJm8_LK5n-gItkP0SV9VJ3bSeyXqUvwv6YXEfDLKmjqsMHrtMj_WZKjswZ0_TryFRHexH81I4lJt21xJ18lW6eJ4MwrYYgw8dBNhxH8f8QtyKwaZSiFh4LmQgxbOPrXmRITUOWps_CxWMTvBX5rKen3r5wO8k11TCSPRoVeITiruCDm8WmsCKKoOOWGW0YN-7fO5TAttfqfrsgfPEGAkxzzNOm3MNRscG4sPMDik--lV26cghMsnCPLDzy2EMa94XP.4_7S-AS9tVCKbhk5i1GyuZOxxiEJZtXhHvCwRLryyzw&dib_tag=se&keywords=verbatim%2Bbd-r%2Bdl&qid=1742410092&sprefix=verbatim%2Bbd-r%2Bdl%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-4&th=1

I'm surprised I haven't seen posts by other people on their experiences with BD-R DL media... I can't be the only one using them!

[dbminter]

I just priced DataLife Plus BD-R DL the other day as I was curious.  From Amazon.com, they work out to $2.78 US per disc for 25 of them.

 

Actually, I'm not that surprised no one else has chimed in on this thread.  Optical disc burning is pretty much mostly a dead end right now.  It's a niche market at best.

[rlp]

I ordered the 25-spindle of DataLife Plus BD-R DL from Amazon.ca. Hopefully they'll perform as well as the single-layer ones have for you.

 

I'll probably continue burning to blu-ray as long as I have access to media and stuff to burn. I personally don't get the apparent phasing out of this sort of thing. Commercial blu-rays are still available, albeit probably not as much as they used to be. If there was some way of creating a similar movie structure, complete with menus/chapters but on, say, flash drives, which could be plugged into blu-ray players and/or smart TVs for playback with menu access, I'd consider that route, since the price of those has really dropped a lot.

 

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help/advice.

[dbminter]

I think the primary reason flash drives will never be used as physical media for releasing movies is they can't be encrypted like an optical disc drive can.  DVD's and Blu-Rays were created from the beginning with hardware encryption baked in.  Flash drives came out before the idea to release movies on them.  So, like CD's coming before DVD's, when the CD was first released, the idea of even being able to copy them was never conceived of.  So, CD's weren't encrypted.  Since flash drives had a use for general data before the idea of releasing them as movies was even a possibility, encrypting flash drives at the hardware level wasn't standardized.

 

And even if hardware encryption were introduced, I'd think Hollywood would be deathly afraid to do it.  Too easy to copy the contents as a DVD or Blu-Ray from flash drives to other media and, especially, uploaded everywhere.

 

I believe the Sony PSP handheld console had movies released in something I think called the UMD format, which was basically a little flash drive with movies that only played on the PSP.  But, that was the closest something like that ever came and that was a Sony proprietary format.

 

I hope those DataLife BD-R DL work out for you!  Unfortunately, the "logical" solution which should like it should work doesn't always.

 

Reply back with your experiences with them.  I'm curious to see if they're worth investing in.  I've not gotten any due to the price, but I would have archive uses for them.  I don't do BD movies, but I do lots of data archives to BD-R over the past decade.