[Bizkymo]

I have been burning a lot of dvd-r discs recently on the e85. Everything was well and good until I noticed that two of the discs were heavily pixellated towards the end. The dvd plays fine on the E85, but on my main DVD player (the Denon 1600) the video gets heavily pixellated a few minutes before the DVD ends. I tried it on a few other dvd players with all the same results. Do you guys have any idea what causes it and how I can fix the problem or prevent it?


I burn a lot of discs and it would be severely taxing on my time to watch them all to check for errors. Hopefully the two that I found are the only ones out of my large collection that have pixellation problems.. The discs I use are Maxwell "made in Japan" DVD-Rs which lead me to believe that the problem comes from the E85 itself.

 

[DaveC E100]

If the problem is in the E85, about the only thing you could try is to slow down the burning speed to see if that helped? Even though you are using blanks with a good reputation, I would still try different brands of blanks to see if I could find one that works better. You might have gotten a bad batch?


Dave

 

[Felgar]

Yeah I agree with Dave. When discs are marginal it will be towards the end of the disk where the problems will show up.


I've never had problems with the Maxell and that's all I've used. But you can probably never rule out a bad batch. Also I can only burn at 1x so maybe the maxell aren't best for high-speed burns.


As common practice I quickly flip to the very end of each DVD-R that I make once it's finalized (easy to do with chapter skip) just to make sure that the end of the disc isn't bad before I delete the original content from my hdd.

 

[Kelson]

The fact that the DVD-R plays perfectly in the E85 indicates that the burn is fine and the media is fine. Hate to say it but your Denon is just not up to snuff with DVD-R media. I had the same problems with my "old" Panasonic player. As suggested you can burn at a slower speed. I did and found that it was not a guarantee. I still got spots of macroblocking and pixelation. Also, Maxell are some of the best. If you see this with Maxell (I did also) you will certainly see it with lesser brands. My solution was to buy a recent vintage $89 Sony player -- plays everything perfectly burned at 4X.