{"id":2509,"date":"2003-07-06T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2003-07-06T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2012-04-13T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:02:24","slug":"strange-happenings-with-dvdr-and-philips-dvdr890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Strange happenings with DVD+R and Philips DVDR890"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed something strange about the way\u00a0Philips’ DVDR890 DVD recorder<\/a> burns DVD+Rs. Here’s the first couple of lines of a DOS DIR \/S command, when a duly finalised Verbatim DVD+R is in my computer’s DVD-ROM drive:<\/p>\n

 Volume in drive F is PHILIPS_DVD_VR\r\n Volume Serial Number is 6533-3D0C<\/pre>\n
And here’s the same command on a finalised TDK DVD+R:<\/p>\n
 Volume in drive F is PHILIPS_DVD_VR\r\n Volume Serial Number is 6533-3D0C<\/pre>\n
\"\"Notice anything? Kind of identical, aren’t they. Both of these discs contain recordings of broadcast TV programs made at different times. Both were recorded on a Philips DVDR890. And, as it happens, when I checked a couple of other discs burnt on the same machine, they also were the same. If any of you has one of these recorders which you’ve used to burn a DVD+R, could you advise me what the label and volume serial number of the resulting disc is please? (scdawson [at] hifi-writer.com) It could be that each recorder applies a different serial number.<\/p>\n
For the most part this isn’t a problem. But it can cause a couple of slight inconveniences. For example, if I place one such disc in my DVD-ROM drive straight after another one, the computer thinks it’s the same disc. I have to stick in something else in between the two to make sure the computer re-reads the disc.<\/p>\n
For another, if I have stopped watching one half-way through on, say, a Sony DVD player that memorises the last played-to position, then the next time I stick another DVD+R into the same Sony player, it commences play from that same timing point, thinking it’s the same disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve noticed something strange about the way\u00a0Philips’ DVDR890 DVD recorder burns DVD+Rs. Here’s the first couple of lines of a DOS DIR \/S command, when a duly finalised Verbatim DVD+R is in my computer’s DVD-ROM drive: Volume in drive F … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}