Does anyone know?
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, Mar 17 2008 11:26 AM
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Posted 17 March 2008 - 11:26 AM
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Posted 17 March 2008 - 02:37 PM
There are lots of variations in the "home built" CDs or DVDs that are not usually present in the proprietary article. The organic dyes used in the home variety (that carry the "peaks and troughs "etched" by the laser) are sometimes unreadable in a "stand alone" DVD player.
A proprietary DVD pressed from a master as part of a long run is of a uniform consistency and does not rely on a surface dye to "encode" the data.
The power and performance of the lasers used in the home and professional areas are also significantly different. not to mention individual disc differences from machine to machine and between the manufacturers various products.
The whole area of performance criteria is reasonably well documented by both the main manufacturers and also by academic research but it can and has been summed up as:
paws
A proprietary DVD pressed from a master as part of a long run is of a uniform consistency and does not rely on a surface dye to "encode" the data.
The power and performance of the lasers used in the home and professional areas are also significantly different. not to mention individual disc differences from machine to machine and between the manufacturers various products.
The whole area of performance criteria is reasonably well documented by both the main manufacturers and also by academic research but it can and has been summed up as:
there are differences between home burnt and major production runs.......some work and some dont!
Regardspaws
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