XBOX not reading games from Hi-Val DVD burner??

[rawdog805]

Hello guys--

My Xbox is not reading my DVD-R's burned on my moms Hi-Val DVD-+R burner... Any Idea what the problem is??... When I take the DVD-R's home to my house I copy them to another DVD-R on my Cendyne burner, and they work... I use Verbatim DVD-R's on both burners but for some reason my games are not being read on my Xbox from her burner.... Any Ideas???

[smokafatty]

Not really sure, you might get better help posting this in the dvdr forums also.

[doubled_D]

I have read elsewhere that there can be big differences in dvd burner quality.
I'm guessing the Cendyne is a rebadged Pioneer and the +/- burner isn't of the same quality.

[nimbles]

could be. someone else on another forum i use basically had the same prob burning dvd's on an optowrite dvd burner- dunno if that is a rebadged HiVal burner or vice/versa.

My suggestion would be to burn at 1x- it may then work- burning at lower speed causes less burn error (different to a complete failed burn which your burning software would flag)- something that many xbox drives are sensitive to.

for instance i have a pioneer 105, my xbox plays pretty much any dvd-r i throw at it burned at upto 4x- but dvd-rw's even if they are 2x only work if i burn them at 1x.

[rawdog805]

Yes the Hi-Val is the Rebadged Optowrite...

Is there any firmware that I should try???

and yes I have been trying to burn them at 2X speed so I will attempt to lower the Burn speed this weekend when I go back to rochester...

Thanks for the thoughts, Keep em coming..

[Devil-Man]

i had hell with princos on my liteon 4x +/- and they release firmware after firmware and finally the last version they released i can burn princo 100% now. only took 6 monhts :P