This weeks Best Buy flyer has the 25 pack of DVD+or-R's for $24.99 after instant rebate. Not a bad buy by itself but I knew that the Staples stores carry these same 25 pack cake boxes so I went in for the PM. Staples sells them for $49.98
110% Price match -$27.49
Paid $22.49
The -R discs are 2x and the +R's are 4x
Your next question will be what's the meda code on these discs? Before buying I checked online to see what I might get. The +R's that I wanted can be anything from RicohJPN to CMCMAG.F01. I was hoping for the Ricoh's since they perform very well in my Lite-On. With my luck I ended up with the CMCMAG.F01's and I wasn't happy! I bought the TEON +R's last week at Staples which had the CMCMAG.E01 media code which did not perform too well. Since I already cracked open one cake box I decided to burn one at 4x and see if the one letter difference in the code could make a difference in a higher quality burn.
Much to my surprise it did make a huge difference in the Kprobe results!
Kprobe 2.1.0
PI Max= 112
PI Avg.= 33.25
PO Max= 2
PO Avg.= 0.03
I think I'll keep them. Has anyone else seen this happen with CMCMAG coded discs?
Thanks
John
110% Price match -$27.49
Paid $22.49
The -R discs are 2x and the +R's are 4x
Your next question will be what's the meda code on these discs? Before buying I checked online to see what I might get. The +R's that I wanted can be anything from RicohJPN to CMCMAG.F01. I was hoping for the Ricoh's since they perform very well in my Lite-On. With my luck I ended up with the CMCMAG.F01's and I wasn't happy! I bought the TEON +R's last week at Staples which had the CMCMAG.E01 media code which did not perform too well. Since I already cracked open one cake box I decided to burn one at 4x and see if the one letter difference in the code could make a difference in a higher quality burn.
Much to my surprise it did make a huge difference in the Kprobe results!
Kprobe 2.1.0
PI Max= 112
PI Avg.= 33.25
PO Max= 2
PO Avg.= 0.03
I think I'll keep them. Has anyone else seen this happen with CMCMAG coded discs?
Thanks
John