Problem with BD-R DL Discs...

[OrlandoEastwood]

Hello,

I was having a problem trying to burn some back up Blu-rays for while I travelled. I haven't had any problems burning for the past two years or so and I have recently got a 25 pack of Kodak BD-R DL discs and four in a row were just coasters. Somewhere along the lines they failed to burn. So, I am a little confused as to why. I use DVDFAB and have ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 set to do the burning. The first three were just DVDFab using the file. And then I made an ISO file to see if burning that would fix the issue and alas, I am here.

My burner, Pioneer BDXL BDR-XD08 is about a little over a year old. I have been burning regular single layer BD-R and dual layer BD-R discs until now. Whenever I inserted one of these blank discs, it gave a disc name of "CMCMAG-DI6-000" which I did a Google search and it was nothing but trashing the type of disc it is. 
 

ImgBurn.log

[dbminter]

My only suggestion is to try Verbatim DataLife Plus BD-R DL discs.  CMC MAG are the worst optical discs out there.  However, I've never actually burned any of those before.  But, DataLife Plus is the high quality brand of BD-R SL that I use from Verbatim now and the only ones I trust.  I don't even trust Verbatim's branded BD-R anymore after a series of 3 cake stacks all wouldn't burn correctly.

 

That wouldn't easily explain, though, why you got some good burns and some bad, but it is possible to get some CMC media that completes burns and verifies.  However, in the long run, they tend to die quicker because of their being cheap media.  What that would generally indicate is the laser has gone bad in your BD burner.

 

If you do try Verbatim DataLife Plus BD-R DL and you still get failed burns, then I would try replacing your BD burner.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Hello,

Thank you for your response. I have let the seller that these discs were bad. I have a few stacks of single layer BD-R discs and I burned one yesterday after a few hours after I made the initial post; it burned fine. I re-ripped it and it successfully backed up. I informed the seller, whom I bought from before, that I had previously gotten Kodak BD-R DL discs from them before that had no problems burning.

The single layer discs I use are epro and RiData. I only had two fail on my previous Pioneer burner that died in 2024. The latches that hold the disc down in the center ended up snapping off. I didn't know how to replace the broken part, so, I handed it off to my brother since he loves tech stuff. He might be able to replace them.

[dbminter]

It sounds like this 2024 Pioneer was a slim model?  Latches that hold a disc down in the center sound more like a slim model.  My last slim model LG had a similar issue.  After about a year, it became relatively useless because the whole center post that holds discs in it kept coming off when removing discs.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Yeah, they're USB plug in external drives. I got my first one back in like 2012. I think I have had about four or five throughout the years. I have been pretty happy with Pioneer. One of the previous ones, the whole center piece just came off after a few years like the glue or some just disintegrated. Tried regluing back into place and kept breaking off over time. All though, I am looking at getting another brand to try to figure out the whole flashing to get it to do 4K UHD burning and playback.

I might get an internal drive one of these days but I would need to get a whole new shell for my CPU. This PC that I use is for video editing that my brother built custom for me. A new shell and a bigger HDD.

[dbminter]

Pioneer used to make good burners until about 15 years ago.  They borked the firmware for 8x DVD+RW and NEVER fixed it until the last model they released!  However, Pioneer borked the firmware for OTHER things like 8x DVD+R DL only writing at 2.4x.

 

Good luck finding ANY burners.  It seems no one manufactures them anymore.  LG and ASUS were the last 2 holdouts and they appear to have ceased manufacturing.  Prices on Amazon are through the roof because of low stock.  Apparently, you can get them from China, but in the US, there are the stupid tariff problems.  Plus, if you have to return it, it would be cost prohibitive.

 

I recently bit the bullet and painfully laid for over $300 for an LG WH16NS40 off of Amazon from a reseller to buy me a little time.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Yeah, I have been AI upscaling old Public Domain movies and looking at putting them out on Blu-ray to make some money on the side. I was looking at buying a giant tower of like 5 to 10 burners and you can't even find them now. It's ridiculous. 

[OrlandoEastwood]

Okay. I ordered a 10 pack of generic "SmartBuy" blanks the day these Kodak discs arrived. These blanks just arrived today. I popped one in and IMGBurn recognizes it as:

 

PIONEER BD-RW   BDR-XD08 1.02 (USB)
Current Profile: BD-R

Disc Information:
Status: Empty
State of Last Session: Empty
Erasable: No
Free Sectors: 24,438,784
Free Space: 50,050,629,632 bytes
Free Time: 5430:52:34 (MM:SS:FF)
Next Writable Address: 0
MID: RITEK-DR3-000
Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x

So, hopefully when I click burn and let it go, we will see if it's those discs or if it's my burner.

Edited 22 hours ago by OrlandoEastwood

[dbminter]

Depending on what part of the world you're in, Ritek can either be a good 2nd tier manufacturer or the 2nd worst manufacturer after CMC.  Seems in Europe, Ritek is pretty cheap media, but in North America, Ritek media is decent 2nd tier.

[OrlandoEastwood]

I'm out in Ohio. So, I just re-did the first disc that I tried that failed at 56% both times. On these RITEK-DR3-000 the disc successfully burned and successfully re-ripped to the hard drive to verify it's good. So, it is these Kodak discs.

[dbminter]

Ritek currently makes Sony's DVD-R discs, which are good 2nd tier recordable DVD discs.  Ritek also made Memorex's BD-RE discs and they were good quality.  Ritek also made the last of the 8x DVD+RW ever manufactured for Imation and Memorex.