recuva does it work with dvds?

emailsemails Posts: 11,275
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i have just been trying to record some tv programmes to dvd only to find that the dvd has just lost the files,how can i recover this?

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  • MaxatoriaMaxatoria Posts: 17,980
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    Probably it'll be too much technical effort to try and recover the data, assuming it was actually written in the first place

    Depending on the program it may be possible to download it (cough)
  • emailsemails Posts: 11,275
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    Maxatoria wrote: »
    Probably it'll be too much technical effort to try and recover the data, assuming it was actually written in the first place

    Depending on the program it may be possible to download it (cough)

    as it was deal or no deal my only hope then is YT but just can't understand why the dvd loses the data after recording from a dvd machine? 9 times out of 10 its ok. even if its proctected
  • MaxatoriaMaxatoria Posts: 17,980
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    emails wrote: »
    as it was deal or no deal my only hope then is YT but just can't understand why the dvd loses the data after recording from a dvd machine? 9 times out of 10 its ok. even if its proctected

    Depends on many things...quality of the media, the laser on the drive etc
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    Maxatoria wrote: »
    Depends on many things...quality of the media, the laser on the drive etc

    oh dear most of my dvds are supermarket bought, but 9 times out of 10 there ok
  • PuckyPucky Posts: 4,503
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    emails wrote: »
    oh dear most of my dvds are supermarket bought, but 9 times out of 10 there ok

    That's about right for media. IIRC it has about a 10% fail rate, so in a box of 10 disks one may not work.
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    Pucky wrote: »
    That's about right for media. IIRC it has about a 10% fail rate, so in a box of 10 disks one may not work.

    oh wounderfull so what disc are fail safe then? we never had problems with the humble video tape unless the machine chewed it
  • StigStig Posts: 12,446
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    Burning to DVD is very old school. Putting video onto on NAS ad streaming it is the way forward.
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    Stig wrote: »
    Burning to DVD is very old school. Putting video onto on NAS ad streaming it is the way forward.

    forgive me but what is NAS i am a bit behind on technogy
  • LION8TIGERLION8TIGER Posts: 8,484
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    emails wrote: »
    forgive me but what is NAS i am a bit behind on technogy

    I'm not in the fast lane either :) but I know what that one means .........

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
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    LION8TIGER wrote: »
    I'm not in the fast lane either :) but I know what that one means .........

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

    reading that ,sadly theres not alot there i understand & til now not heard of NAS so don't know how this replaces "if thats the case" dvds? the machine pictured is i guess a divce that records data from a pc or tv set? i only thought blueray was the future replacement for dvds?
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    emails wrote: »
    reading that ,sadly theres not alot there i understand & til now not heard of NAS so don't know how this replaces "if thats the case" dvds? the machine pictured is i guess a divce that records data from a pc or tv set? i only thought blueray was the future replacement for dvds?

    Blu-ray is old hat too!
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    emails wrote: »
    oh wounderfull so what disc are fail safe then? we never had problems with the humble video tape unless the machine chewed it
    No such animal. Even the best makes have duff batches.

    If you are talking about a standalone recorder rather than a PC drive one thing to resolve this issue would be to use a DVD recorder with built in hard drive. Record the programmes to the hard drive then copy to DVD as necessary. The big advantage of this is that if the DVD screws up you just chuck the disk away, stick a new one in and copy it again.
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    mac2708 wrote: »

    looking at that ,i get a better understanding of this,it appears a storage divce that i assume connects to a pc or tv ?
  • MaxatoriaMaxatoria Posts: 17,980
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    If you have an tv point near your pc you could probably get a USB TV freeview decoder then set it up to record programs you want to the HDD then you'll be able to check the programs have been recorded and if so dump em onto DVD
  • emailsemails Posts: 11,275
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    Maxatoria wrote: »
    If you have an tv point near your pc you could probably get a USB TV freeview decoder then set it up to record programs you want to the HDD then you'll be able to check the programs have been recorded and if so dump em onto DVD

    well i should have all that on my lcd 40" plasma tv mines got freeview built in ,but til our areal is sorted we are feeding off sky & anything from sky goes tv dvd recorder if its required to go on dvd. where would this divice help here?
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