Hi again,
killivolt:
Thanks for the info. Im starting to think there is just something up with MS that they are not telling us. It's just plain stupid. I am wondering if a class action suite is possible since it affects so many people's machines.
KeepItSimple:
Well we know or at least should know that the burner and disk have to be compatible, that's not been a question. The burner/disk works with better software as i already pointed out.
The main issue is using Windows 7 built in software to burn a DVD disk. It is clearly Windows 7 but may be other versions of Windows too like Vista. I had a little experience with Vista once though and i was able to burn with it, but it changed all the dates on ALL of the files to the date they were burned rather than maintain their original dates. I dont remember too much else about it except i brought the whole machine back because Vista was just terrible and i wasnt going to accept that.
So the issue really is Windows 7. For one thing, the burner settings do not allow setting the burn speed to 'variable' like the better software allows. This allows for disks that are not perfect from inside to outside edge, which is probably every disk made. If the burn does not work at 16x it down shifts to 15x, then 14x, etc, until it works ok. But Windows 7 only has settings for 2x, 4x, 6x, up to 16x i think but there is no way to get that variable speed, so i am suspecting (although not tested yet because i already wasted 4 disks for nothing) that if the recorder was set to 2x it might actually work. I think it thinks that if you set it to 16x that it can happily burn away from inside to outside at 16x without ever changing speed. So maybe 2x would work but it would be very slow to burn an entire 4.7GB DVD disk.
My burners do many different kinds of disks, including -R, +R, various RW, etc. +R is the better type because it has better error correction. Maybe Windows 7 doesnt like +R disks, who knows.
But the biggest beef is that after all these friggin' years (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and various service packs) you would think that a software company like MS could get it right.
In order to not sound completely negative, i do have to add that they did seem to improve some things. USB mounting and unmounting is faster, boot is faster, unboot is faster (shutdown ha ha), hibernate is faster, etc. So i do see several improvements. It's just too bad they didnt do anything about the DVD burner software.
Anyone ever see Jackass The Movie? It's like the software version of that movie
I wonder if they will come out with a service pack soon?