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Anonymous · Posted: Fri November 24, 2006 Post subject: DVD Recordable Media Info

Unfortunatle, none of those are decent quality media. Not one of those brands make their own discs - all are made by various manufacturers. Samsung has also been known to be fake TY, Melody uses some manufacturers which are so bad, nobody knows exactly who they are (MEDIA-ID-001). I have some Melody DVD discs which have edges that rot off after a while.

Iomega is probably the least horrible of the lot but still far from being good quality stuff. Those are MCC003 (see below) but made by lower quality manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric rather than the better known Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Mitsubishi Chemicals, also Verbatim).

Your writer is quite picky about what media it uses and it really does not like low quality media. That is probably why it burns those lower quality 8x discs slower than 8x - that is the best it can handle those without churning out coasters!

In addition to defragmenting your hard drive, please, try and use decent quality media like Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden. That should cure quite a lot of your problems.

If you ever want to use 16x media, there is a very short list of brands your writer supports. All are DVD+R media and your writer doesn't support 16x DVD-R media at all. If you use anything else, you will end up being only able to write thoe 16x discs at 4x. It was the first 16x writer LG released, so it's 16x writing support is a bit limited. This is the list of supported 16x media :

+LGEP16001 (LG 16x DVD+R - not very good quality media, probably made +by Infodisc Korea as LG doesn't make media)
+MAXELL003 (Maxell 16x DVD+R, ONLY if the packaing says Made in Japan)
+MBIG101R05 (Moser Baer 16x DVD+R and MMore 16x DVD+R)
+MCC004 (Verbatim 16x DVD+R)
+PHILIPSC16 (Philips 16x DVD+R)
+RICOHJPNR03 (Ricoh 16x DVD+R)
+SONYD21 (Sony 16x DVD+R)
+TDK003 (TDK 16x DVD+R - no longer in production)

There are 5 8x DVD+R media codes which your writer can burn at 8x :

+MCC003 (Verbatim 8x DVD+R)
+RICOHJPNR02 (Ricoh 8x DVD+R)
+MAXELL002 (Maxell 8x DVD+R, Made in Japan version only)
+TDK002 (TDK 8x DVD+R, no longer in production)
+YUDEN000T02 (Taiyo Yuden 8x DVD+R, Plextor 8x DVD+R, Verbatim Pastel 8x DVD+R)

I suspect your Iomega discs are MCC003 but made under contract by a lower quality manufacturer (see above) so those were the ones that burned at 12x. From reports of other people who have tried these discs, the burn quality isn't that good though.