Testing with BD-RE

[soxthecat]

Is testing first with making a copy to a BD-RE and if it works doing a "clone" procedure to an BD-R a workable plan?

Thanks

[IPopov50]

Yep!

[unknownbluray]

Its a very smart plan, I do it and some will say its just added time to backing up but I feel as though its better than making coasters.

[dgrams]

When beginning doing blurays, I was doing this, but found out that once you get a good copy on your HDD that you can play back, its normally okay then to put it over to a permament disc.
There are some exceptions, but far and few.
Once I felt good about my HDD copies, I started skipping testing on the rewritables.
Its not a bad plan to use them, but once you are used to dvdfab and the rips - then it just becomes a waste of time and more wear on your burner.

I never trusted my rewritables after a handfull of uses. I sometimes got differing results because of the media also.

Was using maxell rewritables.

[Jonatan]

Disc

Stop wasting money on disc and go get a media player and hdd cheaper than disc and no coasters

[signals]

This is all very good advice. I think that once you can trust your 1)blank media and 2)optical drive there should not be a need to BD-RE each backup. There will be occasional problems with specific content and maybe even a specific version of DVDFab or one of the burn engines, but writing to a hard drive first and testing the playback from there will cover most of that and drop the coaster count way down. Media Players are definitely the future.

[unknownbluray]

I agree that media players can be the future but there are so many people who still prefer the physcial medium. And lets face it HDD and SSD can fail.

[90312]

At some point Cinavia will force our hand.

[GregiBoy]

This is not an issue if you put a proper backup strategy in place.

And lets face it HDD and SSD can fail.

[dgrams]

At some point Cinavia will force our hand.

Must have faith.. At some point the wonderful people here will figure out a way around Cinavia....

[90312]

I have faith, but Cinavia is a tuff nut to crack!

[GregiBoy]

No problems on Media Players.... No nut to crack!!

I have faith, but Cinavia is a tuff nut to crack!

[signals]

No problems on Media Players.... No nut to crack!!

Unless Sony makes it!

[GregiBoy]

Indeed, but then again, I don't figure Sony in any of my calculations. I've voted with my wallet and they are gone, gone, gone....

Unless Sony makes it!

[SuperFist]

No problems on Media Players.... No nut to crack!!

Well, hopefully these CPU manufacturers can iron out the 23.976 true framerate for movie playback because it's irritating occasionally seeing frames drop or added on CPU powered playback. Sandy and Ivy Bridge still didn't get it right. The only fix I've discovered online is NVIDIA graphics cards with customizable framerates.