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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:05AM (#256789)

    Mmm. When I used to burn dvds, I tried to check readability in a different drive, than the original. Showed me that crap-cheap dvd drives handle DVD+R better than DVD-R (could read only the first 800 meg . . . weird); more often that it caught burn errors.

    I have a bit of a mess on my hands now. About 100 dvds from 2006 - 2009.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @03:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @03:05PM (#256899)

    Did you ever run into the problem where Windows permanently handicaps the CD/DVD drive if it encounters a read error x number of times with a disk? It makes DVD video playback very slow and/or choppy. The only way to fix it is by shutting down the PC, disconnecting the drive, reboot, shutdown again, re-connect the drive, reboot again... Or hack the registry. That used to royally piss me off.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:53PM (#257036)

      No. I switched to linux (redhat 9 / fedora 2 / knoppix 3.3 ) on my primary systems in 2004 - 2005, before I started burning dvds.