After 4 Years Of Use DVD-RAM Beats DVD+/- RW For Stability & Long Term

In the past year, since I bought my Toshiba RD-XS55 DVDR, the only discs I've had problems with are the Panasonic DVD-RAM. I agree with you, they probably are the best and they are the only RAM's I have used.

I like to record movies from cable and transfer them to discs for my personal use. Of course if the movie had a copy once flag, I had to move them to DVD-RAM. In almost every occurrence I had problems with pixeling on the DVD. The original HDD copy was perfect. Copies I have made, containing no flag, to DVD-R's are also error free. I have only used Taiyo Yuden and Sony DVD-R's.

I have since resorted to copying all my movies through a Sima CT-200, thereby allowing me to copy any movie from HDD to DVD-R. The only drawback, which I can live with, is the lack of closed captioning on the finished product. Time will only tell about stability and longevity.

I haven't used -RAM as much as I have used -R or -RW(V), but the -RAM discs seem to have their occasional quirks too. But only once I lost the whole contents of a -RAM (while doing basic chapter editing)

Seven years and counting; none of my RAM discs have failed. I use them for archiving important material and for transferring video from the DVD recorder to the PC for editing and authoring.

I 've had many DVD-R discs go bad over time (Vivistar, Be All, Maxell and Ritek were the major losers). I've never had a Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden fail as of yet (four years and counting since using these).

As mentioned in another thread, I've recently learned that I get remarkable burn results when using Verbatim DVD+R and +R D/L media. I average a score of 98 on DVDInfo Pro and Nero's CD/DVD Speed with +R media; a remarkably low rate of Pi & Pif errors.

I have a RAM disc that just started Pixellating and hanging up again. I washed it with soap and warm water, but it is still not working right. I sincerely hope it is the Disc and not my beloved Panny DMR-ES10K!!

I did notice that when I removed the Ram Disc it was exceptionally hot, much hotter than I recall most disc feeling upon removal. I put another disc in and will see what results I get from that.

I am assuming you also reformatted it? I had one RAM pixelate but I am assuming it was because while it was recording I was also torturing it with erratic fast-forward and back-forward playback of another program on it, both in LP mode.

I have several dvd ram discs that won't even read, guess i'll try cleaning them, and see what happens. most of my Panasonic ES15 reads fine though