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How to identify DVD-R Blanks ?

Postby goden99 on Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:43 pm

My friend found a place to get some DVD-R blanks.
He told me the guy said there Princo DVD-R 4X but there white on top...
NTI - the dvd program i got with my burner tells me i can fit 4.438G on it. nothing else...
Is there a software that would tell me what these blanks are ? like read the id or something?
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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:47 pm

Princo makes ther own media.

Check out this site:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmedia/
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Postby Telstar on Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:08 pm

Download DVDInfo Pro from the following link:

http://www.dvdinfopro.com/index.php

This program will tell you all the information regarding your DVD burner and media.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:52 pm

Trust me, there isn't a single manufacturer out there that would KNOWLINGLY put Princo's name on their product. However Princo is well known for illegally using other manufacturer's ID codes to make their own media appear differently or better.
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Postby myckee on Sat Aug 30, 2003 7:06 pm

Telstar wrote:Download DVDInfo Pro from the following link:

http://www.dvdinfopro.com/index.php

This program will tell you all the information regarding your DVD burner and media.


Yup this is the program to use. It will tell you everything you need to know about the media, drive and more.
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Postby goden99 on Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:18 pm

Sweet Thanks :) tells me more than I ever need :)

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID PRINCO
Format Capacity Blank
Free Blocks 411107328
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 1.0x 1385KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 0B
2x Speed OPC power 0F
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 86 67 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 01
4x Speed OPC power 1B
4x Write Strategy field 1 0B 0E 08 08
4x Write Strategy field 2 55 09 0F 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 C0 88 80 88
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 00
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 00
4x Write Strategy field 4 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 5 00 00 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 00 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1
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Postby eliminator on Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:31 pm

I think u could use the new v. of lite-on's SMARTBURN as well...
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