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[filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings
I am running into very similar issues with DVD burners and readers, and
it is completely unacceptable that this should be happening.
Anyone know a good lawyer? It seems a class action suit might clean up
this mess...
Art
Tony Sleep wrote:
> On 26/02/2009 lists@lazygranch.com wrote:
>
>> I font follow your reason for rejecting DVDs. Granted at
>> 4 GBytes, they aren't big these days.
>>
>
> I don't trust DVD stability/longevity at all. I've had quality branded
> DVD's corrupt themselves after as little as 3m or fail to read on a drive
> other than the one that created them (though that's an older problem from
> early days).
>
> Worst example was one that I drove to a client 40mls away, on a very
> urgent deadline. It had verified and test loaded fine here on 2 different
> drives, and they couldn't read it, they could only see the directory
> entries. I had to go back home, burn another and drive back again. Later I
> tried the problem disk and I couldn't open the files either. It really put
> me off DVD, unlike CD, where I have never had a disk go bad in up to (so
> far) 13 years.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>
>
>
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