Memorex Dvd Dl

Cross-flash and burn succesful but DVD-DL can't be read - Club MyCE

I have an almost 7 year old Dell PC (running Win XP SP3) with a Phillips 8601 DVD burner. I updated to the KD10 firmware soon after getting it, and rarely had a problem with it after that. Until recently, I never had occasion to burn a DVD-DL. Then, I downloaded a couple of ISO images that would not fit on a single layer DVD, so I figured I'd try my hand at DL burning. Bought a pack of Memorex DVD+R DL (I usually buy Taiyo Yuden, but they only make the -R DL). Nero Info Tool says that they are actually Ritek, but I've burned Ritek before without a problem. Like so many others, I couldn't get the fakakta thing to burn DVD DL, but stumbled upon the cross-flash option, and decided to give it a try. I used the cross-flash tool posted in this forum to turn it into a BenQ 1620, using the B7W9 firmware. The cross-flash was successful, and now my PC says I've got a BenQ instead of a Philips. So far, so good. Then I tried burning one of the ISO images with Nero (v7—never felt the need to get an upgrade since it's always served me well.) Nero burned it all the way, and data verification was successful. I was really feeling good, until… Now my problem is that the DVD can't be read. The BenQ nee Philips won't read it, nor will my read-only DVD drive (LG HL-DT-ST GDR8163B), nor will my home DVD player, a Philips DVP 642/37 which plays almost everything. Info Tool lists the disc as still being blank, although one look at the burned side of the disc shows that it is not blank. When I put the DVD in the LG, Info Tool lists no disc present at all. My home DVD player also say that there's no disc present. I'm also surprised that the brand to use is Verbatim. Maybe it's because back in my Commodore 64 days I remember buying Verbatim floppy disks, and not having good experiences. I realize that was about 30 years ago, and the company may make better product now, but I've been leery of that brand ever since. (Plus, I've become set in my ways in my middle-age.

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