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Do you keep your maps disc in your nav?
My MKIV system seems pretty unstable with regards to the sat nav if i leave the disc in (normally gets stuck on 'please wait'), however it loads nearly everytime if i let the system boot up and insert the disc after. Anyone else get this? |
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It stays in the drive 100% of the time. No reason to take it out.
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Guess my laser must be on its way out then. ive ordered a replacement now...
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I believe the reason to take it out is to preserve the lens as it seems the dvd reader is always working no matter if you are using the navigation system or not. Personally I do not use the navigator so often unless I travel, so I prefer to take it out.
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I've had a disc in my MK IV nav computer since I got the car (September 2002 - the first month that DVD computers were used) and I haven't had any problems with the drive wearing out. I used to run backup copies of my map discs (and keep the original in the glove box) because I was worried what might happen to the disc when the car hit a pothole. But given how twitchy that drive is with burned discs - and never having a disc damaged - I went back to using the original in the drive.
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i personally think that using a burned disc that is of questionable quality can overwork the laser in several re-read attempts and hasten the wear on it. however, if you use a high quality burn (slow speed, high quality DVD+R media) it should be just fine. i've left a very low quality disc in the MK4 for several years without problems. but in helping others with their MK4 upgrades, I've seen some units that will no longer read or have trouble reading the low quality burns. but once i make an image of the DVD and re-burn it to high quality media, the unit took it just fine. in light of that, even though I hadn't seen any problems, i switched my disc to a high quality one and leave it in the MK4 at all times.
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my understanding is that quality of DVD media can't be judged by brand, as many brands are just re-labels of various quality media. however, the discs themselves have an internal media ID which gives some indication of the actual manufacturer. and generally speaking, it seems that the media manufactured by JVC Taiyo Yuden & Mitsubishi Chemical seem to have the highest quality. Taiyo Yuden use to only manufacturer for other brands, but it seems lately they are selling direct to retail now too.
In association to "brands", Verbatim has had a good reputation of using either JVC Taiyo Yuden or Mitsubishi as their manufacturer. So, if you have to go by "brand", then Verbatim might be the way to go. However, you might still want to check the media ID of whatever batch of discs you get. There are some "cheaper" Verbatim that might not be as high quality. On another note, DVD+R media seems to be better than DVD-R. There are various technical reasons that one can read about online/google. However, for me the most convincing argument is that every bit stored on DVD+R is protected by parity/error correction while on DVD-R, only about 3/4 of the bits are protected. This means higher chance of unrecoverable read errors with DVD-R compared to DVD+R. I have an old batch of DVD+R with media ID "SONY/D21" that seem to be of high quality, but I didn't mention it above because they are no longer being manufactured. But if you have some older SONY brand DVD media from pre-2010, check the media ID. There are free programs online that one can use to check the media ID. |
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