imac DVD burner not working

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imac DVD burner not working

My DVD burner will burn DVDs. It can read commercial CD and DVD but when I try to burn a home made movie in iDVD it rejects all formats of disks whether DVD- or DVD+. It will not read read DVDs I have previously burned on this computer. It will read CDs I have burned on this computer. I bought a cleaning disk from Staples. Since the Staples cleaning disk the DVD drive began reading commercial DVDs. I lasted burned a DVD on December 10, 2012 less than a month ago without any issue. Do I need a beter cleaner? Solutions?

DVD

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S:

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iMac 2009 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Jan 6, 2013 2:16 PM

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Answer 1

Klaus1

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Jan 6, 2013 2:33 PM in response to yukonkeving

You may need to use better quality media. Most recommended are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Least reocmmended are 'supermarket cheapos'.

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yukonkeving Author

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Jan 6, 2013 2:43 PM in response to Klaus1

Hi Klaus,

Thank you the response. When burning DVD I have used a variety of brand including the ones you mentioned. I tried a Memorex DVD today and it reacted the same way. Do I need to clean the driver longer?

Kevin

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