How to Find Out the Real Manufacturer of a Recordable DVD
Wed, 07/16/2008 - 20:31 — adrianc
Recordable DVD's, in particular cheap ones, can be famously picky about which drives they will work in. I found this utility when a friend was having problems burning supermarket own brand discs. DVDIdentifier queries the physical manufacturer details on the DVD and displays it. Supports all DVD formats and Blu-Ray. The database seems quite old, but new manufacturers are probably few and far between. The prognosis for my friend — go buy some decent TDK discs.
http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/
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TDK? Do you work for them? There are other good brands, not only that. I would say your research wasn't that thorough. Do you know Nero Cd/Dvd Speed? Does that and much more.
I work for a UK ERP Software House, so have no affiliation to any brand of recordable media. Techsupportalert aims towards a chatty and informal style, so TDK happens to be the brand I use. The How-to guides, I believe, do not necessarily represent an in-depth investigation of a particular software category. I quickly tried out the latest version of Nero Cd/Dvd Speed, now renamed Nero DiscSpeed v4.2.11.0. It told me much more, but failed to tell me the manufacturer in the Disc Info tab.
Adrian
I have just extracted some data with Nero Cd/Dvd Speed from one of my DVD for you:
Nero CD-DVD Speed: Disc Info
Basic Information
Disc type: : DVD+R
Book Type : DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: : Sony
MID : SONY D21 000 (00h)
Write speeds: : 2.4 X - 4 X - 6 X - 8 X
Blank Capacity : n/a
Extended Information
Layers : 1
Write strategies : 4 X
Disc Status : Open
Raw Data
Physical Format Information (00h)
0000 - 01 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F 00 00 00 00 - .........&.?....
0010 - 00 00 07 53 4F 4E 59 00 00 00 00 44 32 31 00 38 - ...SONY....D21.8
0020 - 23 54 37 14 00 28 6E 00 80 69 17 19 0C 0C 0A 0B - #T7..(n..i......
0030 - 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - ................
0040 - 01 00 38 38 00 20 61 24 0B 2E 23 10 04 1E 1D 01 - ..88..a$..#.....
0050 - 00 00 00 20 61 24 0B 2E 23 10 04 1E 1D 01 00 00 - ....a$..#.......
It's the MID that matters, not anything else.
When you choose a Cd/Dvd the brand is irrelevant; all that matters is the "media ID", as it reveals the disc manufacturer. Unfortunately, this is not written on packaging or anywhere else. Companies want consumers to be oblivious to this sort of behind-the-scenes information. To learn the media ID code, a blank disc must be put into a computer DVD burner drive and the ID read by a special utility. And Nero Cd/Dvd Speed gives you that. Like I said, not the best "how-to" article I have ever seen, I wouldn't buy a DVD from you.
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