Re: 10 yr old burned DVDs all proving good

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:yoSdnQEe95dj9r7XnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Smarty" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4gHUl.1843$Cc1.1050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"mikekujbida" <kXuXjXfXam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:78goecF1m0k80U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ken Maltby wrote:
I am currently transcribing most of my old TV capture DVDs
(6 episodes per disk of 1/2 D1 MPEG2) into the MP/L3
720x480 AVC/H.264, that I store on and play from NAS.

The 1998 "Buffy" episode DVDs still play well and I have
no problem extracting the .vob files with IsoBuster.

The 352x480 MP/ML 4/3 4:2:0 interlaced MPEG2 video
stream of the DVDs holds up surprisingly well when
transcoded to 720x480 16/9 AVC and then played back
at 720p HDTV.

So DVDs can last for a decade, in some cases. That said,
I still would not advise depending on DVDs for the archiving
of any critical data.

Luck;
Ken


Ken, out of curiosity, what brand/model are they?

Mike

Popping a couple into 'DVD Identifier" gives me the following

for some CompUSA labled DVDs = Optodisc-OP1-001

for some TDK labled DVDs = RicohJPN-R01-002

Most of the "Buffy" DVDs were the CompUSA with a few of the
TDK disks here and there, it was the same for SG1 seasons 1-5.

SG1 seasons 6&7 were Ridata labled RicohJPN-R01-002 and
the CompUSA disks

SG1 season 8-10 were RiData inkjet printable RicohJPN-R01-002

Luck;
Ken




Good info Ken and thanks for posting it. Would these most likely be 1X recordings from a Pioneer DVR-A03?

Thanks,

Smarty

I can't remember the drive I had before the NEC ND-1100A I
bought in 2003. I seem to remember that I found it at CompUSA
and that the box was quite large and was branded as a CompUSA
Drive. I also have the impression I once bought one at an Egghead
store, before they closed their retail stores. It may have been a
Reveal packaged drive, I would have picked up at a PX.

I remember the 4X of the NEC ND-1100A as a real step up
from what I had before, I think my first maxed out at 1.5X.

Luck;
Ken






Thanks Ken. I too have a lot of DVDs burned many years ago, and unfortunately have a lot of stutter and read errors on many of them which were recorded using cheap blanks. My Pioneer burner also had some issues which were eventually fixed by firmware with some media. I now regret using the cheapo blanks, although I do recall having a real problem paying 5 or 6 bucks apiece for blank DVD-Rs.

Thankfully most of the bad disks can be recovered by using a computer reader to copy them. The set-top players I have here mostly refuse to play them, or play them badly.

Smarty

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