[mythtv-users] recording defects?

[William Munson]

norman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:29 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
>   
>> Probably the simplest suggestion would be to record more slowly onto a 
>> good quality DVD-R and use the 'verify' setting.  If your player's 
>> reading is below par you might still have problems, of course, but it 
>> would give it a better chance.
>>     
>
> My thanks to all of you who have responded to my dilemma. It looks as
> though the answer is to get a better DVD player. The trouble is that
> when one looks at the specs of DVD players there does not seem to be any
> clue as to their ability to read DVD-R discs. They all say that they
> read a list of DVDs including DVD-R. Mine does, but clearly, not good
> enough.
>   
Simple test. Take a typical and problem disk with you when you go to the 
store. Try to play them both. Surprisingly, the cheaper players did a 
better job than the pricy ones last time I looked. I no longer have a 
stand-alone dvd player as all tv's in the house are controlled by myth 
frontends and all my dvd's are on the backend as .iso files.