Bulkpaq DVD-R quality?

MarkR

I bought some of these from pricestorm for use with my NEC 2510A burner. Burned great 100% of the time so far, and the dvd's that I've backed up seem to be playing great on a variety of players (in my house of course. ), anyway, is there a point in changing to the better quality ones like datawrite, or just leave well enough alone?

ChipZilla

IMHO Bulkpaqs are fine for XBOX games, but crap for films unless you shrink the film you want to burn to 4.3Gb or less. The new yellow Datawrites are cheap and use Ritek dye, so they might be an idea alright...

Superman

Ah i did a good load of research into this and the best for me have been Ritek orange G-04 dye, I put alot of nerding into this and they are the best.

good deal on them recently at overclockers.co.uk, i think a 10er for a 25 spindle.

Akula

exactly which bulqpaqs did you buy?

what speed? what colour? Know the advinfo?

MarkR

Here is the media I got. Had a choppy burn last night.


Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID VDSPMSAB 01
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name GLADIATOR
Application id
Implementation id AHEAD Nero
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 8/10/2004 23:11:44
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 0B
2x Speed OPC power 10
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 17
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 0A 0B
4x Write Strategy field 2 98 08 0F 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 1C
4x Write Strategy field 4 13 A8 88 65
4x Write Strategy field 5 98 9A 88 80 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22E21Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Akula

hmmm

My advice would be to limit yourself to 4x with those disks. Don't even think about 8x. Although it looks like you are just using the standard firmware.

You should try herries firmware. www.rpc1.org

MarkR

I was going to upgrade the firmware all right, but I built my rig without a floppy, and haven't been able to creat a dos cd yet...