Made over 30 DVDs so far

Life has been busy with baby Samuel. He will turn 10 months next week. I've authored, and burned over 30 DVDs worth of home videos with the BenQ burner, and not a single coaster yet! By far, BenQ is the best burner I have used!

I still burn CD-Rs once in awhile, but most often it's DVDs. I burn at 12x speed, even though the DVD-R speed is rated for up to 16x. I don't want to push the speed limit too much, as these are precious DVDs that I want to last for awhile, and don't want to risk a rushed burn.

My new ad!

My new ad!

Well, thing have been busy, as orders starting to come in! I just ordered bulk bubble mailers (250 count) from a major office supplier, ULINE. They have alot of neat stuff, and a nice, thick catalog full of wholesale office supplies!

To update on my BenQ 1655 drive, I just burned my first DL disc yesterday, putting a video file that was close to 8Gigs in size. It's a Dysan DVD+R 2.4x speed. I recall, it took over 45mins to burn. I played it back on one of my home DVD players. It seems to take longer to recognize. Book Type was set to DVD-Rom. Used Nero Express to burn. It burns the first layer, then the second dual layer. I haven't watched the video on the second layer, so I'll have to report back.

In terms of practicality, if it takes more than 3x the time to burn a DL disc, then I'd rather burn 2 separate DVDs. But it is nice to have a video fit on a single DVD and not have to split or shrink it, which loses quality due to compression.

The future of optical media vs. HDD vs flash memory

Hey guys, I just finished my new blog on Data Storage Solutions.
I believe Optical Media is the way of the future, and I introduce the
Disc Eraser at the end...let me know what you think!

http://datastoragesolutions.blogspot.com/

Further DVD burning tests

I tested the DVD that I burned at 16x speed on various DVD players, and it seems like the older DVD players can't play it. The menus come up, but when you select them, it doesn't play. I have a Mintek portable 7" DVD player, which I bought 2 years ago, and it plays fine on that. My computer DVD ROM plays fine as well. I guess the newer players are better for DVDs that have been recorded at high speed.
I burned a Lightscribe label with it. Seems like it still takes a long time, the Lightscribe technology is still very slow! If you can burn a CD-R at 52x speed, then obviously the speed of Lightscribe can (and should) be improved. There is talk about how it uses the same laser to burn the label, but does it wear out the laser faster? I don't know. Perhaps they should use a separate, more powerful and wider laser to burn the lightscribe label. This would speed up the process and relieve the primary laser of burning the labels. After all, lasers are cheap now, right?

DVD burner with Lightscribe technology

Storage, Storage, Storage! I have received the new BenQ DW1655 DVD burner drive. Kudos to BenQ because I sent in a broken DW1625 drive, which was still under warranty, and within 1 week they sent me the new model BenQ. I tested it with new HP 16x DVD-R blanks and it burned the whole video file in about 4 minutes, playing fine! Oh, my need for speed is fulfilled! The lightscribe has worked for the first 2 times, I will have to test more of them as time allows.... I'll keep every1 updated on my technical evaluation.