Burn Failure on BD-DL after success on BD-RE

[hman2000]

Using Plextor BD-R PX-LB950SA and AnyDvd HD 7.0.4.3. Everthing was working fine. Occasionally, I would get a buring error and would be successful when burned to a BD-RE and rip and burn an image of that disk. Then, starting with 'The Fighter' and then 'Transformers 3', I got 'Power calibration error, illigal disk' failure message on Nero 11 and a simple fail on Cyberlink image create and image burn. This even happened when copied to a BD-RE.
The copy on BD-RE works fine. Before attempting to burn on BD-DL, the Plextor uitility shows the blank disk as having no defects. anyone have any ideas or similar experience? When I put a blank TDK BD-DL in the burner to burn image, AnyDvd HD status shows 'Unknown disc type (empty?), AnyDVD turned off!' is this normal? I added a screen grab of an error message I gor while burning with ImgBurn and another with Nero.

[Ch3vr0n]

don't use nero crap to burn blu-rays, its got a tendency to fail on the outer egdes of a disc. Use IMGburn and quality media like verbatim.

[hman2000]

Using TDK as recommended by Plextor. Theyve been working fine until now.

[fast eddie]

Use Imgburn for burning the disks, and use Imgburn to identify what the true back-up disk really is, no matter what the back-up disk claims it is.

I would stick with BD-R DL and forget about the BD-RE.

If you have only minor compression put back-up on a BD-R single layer. (max 31 GB)

Optical drive and Imgburn running the latest firmware and software updates?

Build the back-up using folder method and not ISO image method.

Default settings in AnyDVD HD?

Clean-up the hard drive and registry and reboot more often. Delete not used files and defrag more often.

Run a test using AnyDVD HD folder method, Clown BD, and Imgburn on a blank BD-R dual layer and play it on a Cinavia free standalone Blu-ray player. If it works, try the back-up disk on your computer using the freeware VSO media player with the latest software update. Always clean install software programs when possible.

[Ch3vr0n]

then plextor doesnt know what they recommend. TDK is crap, sry to tell you this.

[hman2000]

I've been with Plextor since CD burners, DVD, and now Blu-Ray. And until now i always used verbatim. I'll try some Blu-Rays.

[Adbear]

I've used Sony and TDK DL BD-R's since they came out and have no issues with them, just use a good burner and decent writing software and they are just as good as Verbatim discs (which I've never really rated as highly as everyone else does for Blu-ray anyway due to their early discs being of such poor quality).
As to DL BD-RE's I'd always use one for testing purposes, why waste £3-£4 just to find out it didn't work when you can buy a BD-RE and test things out, I'm still using the same BD-RE's I bought 4/5 years ago my SL BD-RE's are mostly TDK with a few Sony's and my DL BD-RE's are mostly Sony, I use these on a daily basis for testing Blu-ray writing output on our Video editing systems before we ship them out to customers and they are still going strong.

[Roycal]

I always burn at the minimum speed from a known good backup from a hard drive to the hard copy BD-R. Currently 2X, Constant velocity burn, Never a bad burn Unless its a cheap disk. 50GB BD-r disks are dodgy sometimes, but the 25GB disks never fail.
You get what you pay for, though. Verbatim or TDK 50GB BD-R's work, but many other cheap versions are not as reliable.
If you can reduce it to a 25GB size it's much cheaper as Ritek or others do that fine for just about 1/5 of the price of a D/L BD-r.

BTW, Those "green" BD-r's don't work as well for me as the "brown" ones. I got these really cheap BD-50-R's and they were green and dont work very well.

No kidding though, kids, unless the movie is over 2 hours, you can fit it on 25GB BD-r with minimal loss in quality. Often all it takes is editing out the foreign language or PCM tracks, deleting trailers etc (with ClownBD), to shrink it to fit on a BD-R S/L 25GB disk.
And if all that fails, you can use BD-Rebuilder, which is worth the processing power too, to reduce it to 25GB S/L BD-R.

There is a serious conspiracy to release blu ray movies larger than 25GB. I noticed that. Delete the adverts, and the unwanted language tracks and often it drops below the D/L threshold.