lfcrule1972 Posted January 11, 2007 Author Posted January 11, 2007 Oh I see - yeah they were actually delivered to my door by Royal Mail....
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 lol I ordered (a few hours) after LFC and mine came 2 days ago
dontasciime Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) yeah but they got concorde out of retirement for you Edited January 11, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Posted January 12, 2007 I think cos I live out in the sticks it takes longer for the pony post to get to me !
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Mine arrived this morning, had been out to get lost planet for 360, when i came back could see posty van outside my door, had to fight this horrible force gale to get there in time. Strange compared to UK verbs, their like girly lavender coloured. First one burned ok, just gonna check quality now compared to UK ones.
lfcrule1972 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Posted January 12, 2007 Yeah they are a lovely shade of mauve My first burn failed to verify on the BenQ (my first duff Verb disc perhaps ?) but the two subsequent ones burn ok so all is well
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) mine are not much better worse than the ricoh ones i have done hope the other 59 are not like that Edited January 12, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Posted January 12, 2007 'kin hell my failed one was never that bad mate...... In actual fact the failed to verify one plays back fine on my standalone player..... What firmware is that mate ? I looked at rpc1 and couldn't see it listed.... http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2175
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) It's a firmware that burns has burned all uk verbs(65 of them) id MKM with 98-99% quality it is a hacked firmware but i do not use the hacked features, in fact i forgotten what the benefit of that firmware is. The disc above has just verified ok against the image.... will try another then try one in a diff burner, will try it in my new benq 1670 as well... Edited January 12, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Posted January 12, 2007 Have you tried the official firmware then donta ? Was it not that good ?
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 the official one was fine, cannot remember why i choose PV9N, i know as soon as i updated to it though i burn't verb and checked for quality and 98.78% or higher so it aint that
lfcrule1972 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Posted January 12, 2007 Well my second burn to those disc was fine mate, I have the graph somewhere, hang on..... and
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) my 2nd burn however i burned one of my /uk verbs straight after and i am not at all pleased with that one either, higher quality scan but still not quite right or like it used to be, just about to burn another using benq DW1670 Edited January 12, 2007 by dontasciime
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) It seemed to be getting worse for my uk verbs with 160P6S drive this was scanned in same drive as it was wrote in as were the previous 4 pics. This is what the same disc scanned like in one of my other liteon drives would it seem to anyone else that the reading function of 160P6s has problems now. Edited January 12, 2007 by dontasciime
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Time to get the lens cleaner out maybe?
dontasciime Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) i never use them, when i had to clean lens of anything i would always take it apart and use lint free cloth and isopropyl alcohol. I have always been careful with the disc's i put in any drive i own, i always examine them for grease, fingerprints and clean them b4 inserting them into any hardware i have. Was told years ago by engineer not to use CD cleaners (the disc kind as they are abrasive) in my at the time 450 quid multi changer Cd player and single player, maybe the CD cleaners now are more appropriate to use. it also is verifying all images written and can read any disc iso i have at great speed. strange busy wrting another of the verbs from US in liteon 1635s now written/scanned on 1635s then scanned on what seems to be a knackered or in need of cleaning 160p6s These are the verbs from US, so they appear to be ok, though tbh the first pack of 20 i opened have scratches on them and seem to be not as well made as the /uk verbs i have, have not opened the other 2 packs of 20 yet ANOTHER EDIT Not sure what to think of this 1st packet of verbs now just wrote one in my brand new benq dw1670 then scanned it in liteon 1635s and it's terrible, cannot be all my writers/readers, unless of course my new benq hates, or rather the firmware is not very good for dual layer burning /2nd layer it falls apart 1st layer is stunning 99.10 % saying as the liteon 1635s was scanning fine before Edited January 12, 2007 by dontasciime
dontasciime Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) An update the first pack of 20 us verbs are quite scratched seems to be due to damage of cake box tbh reminds me of my orders from ukdvdr. Then benq dc dw 1670 is not very good at burning to these. My liteon 160P6S which was when i got it a DRW-6S160P that i flashed to be a 160P6S BUT really it's a SONY DW-Q120A --- LOL (wish they would stop doing this) anyway the drive writes to verbs fine just now cannot scan them as good as it should. I have now started to not take the chance and burn using my liteon 1635s which used to be a philips spd 2400 and scanned them with same drive and it's a lot better Scan below, disc wrote @4.1x and scanned with same writer a liteon 1635s firmware YSOZ So these discs are fine apart from the 8-14 that are scratched Edited January 14, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Posted January 15, 2007 Have you contacted Michael about the scratched ones mate ? Is the packaging busted then ? Nice scan at the end tho
dontasciime Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) I will if I open the other 40 and they are the same, the packaging on the other 40 look ok, however the other 20 pack , the locks on cake box were smashed etc. Scan was ok maybe take of 8% as that liteon drive does not do jitter so Quality score of 91% is good enough for me. edit also seems to burn better on liteon 1635 if burnt at 4x ...the 2.4 burns are still into 97 98 % though Edited January 15, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Posted January 15, 2007 Are you still not verifying those discs mate ??
dontasciime Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) yeah they verify ok. don't usually bother decided to do it for these few, never had a dvd not verify. apart from about 15 of 400-500 discs i bought about 3-4 years ago that have infosmart mid code, needless to say i still have about 400-485 of these left and are good for absolutely FA Edited January 15, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Posted January 16, 2007 I tend to use crappy media to record TV episodes for my friends that way once they have watched them they can chuck em......
dontasciime Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) the infosmart ones are that bad you cannot even do that, they just stutter and lock up, when i bought em they were supposed to have a diff mid code, the first 100 i got were the other 500 were infosmart and by the time i realised, could not remember, find receipt of where wtf i ordered them from. All i am keeping them for is, if ever the bailiffs come to my door so that i can drop them on their heads. Edited January 16, 2007 by dontasciime
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