50 1x GQ DVD-R for $10 at fry's

[AAman]

over the last few months, the GQ dvd+-rs have a MASSIVE failure rate (both of the gold tops,
light and dark are the worst). Burns fail 1/4 of the time, end of all movies don't work, data cyclical
redundancy errors when trying to extract files. Silver have been better, but still too high of an error
ratio. I was looking at the Frys add talking to my friend, and 2 people next to me said the exact
same thing, they've had the same experience. Before, I bought the gold all the time, now, never

 

[pxc]

Originally posted by: AAman
over the last few months, the GQ dvd+-rs have a MASSIVE failure rate (both of the gold tops,
light and dark are the worst). Burns fail 1/4 of the time, end of all movies don't work, data cyclical
redundancy errors when trying to extract files.

I bought a bunch of these 1x (actually 1x-2x) discs and I've not had any real problems.

I've burned about 175 GQ discs (100 of the cheapies from this thread, plus 75 4x DVD+R and DVD-R discs) in the last 2 months. Out of all those, i've had 3 bad discs (QC is terrible, each that failed had visible flaws) but all of the other ones worked fine. Verification was fine, playback was fine, etc. Some drives seems to have problems burning the discs, but my lite-on doesn't.

YMMV and the there are several brands that get rebadged under the GQ name. I don't like the 8x optodisc DVD+R media, but the matrix (spoofed "TY02" media ID) 8x DVD-Rs are fine. I still have 200 more of the cheapies from this thread and i'm happy with them.

 

[MysticX23]

i hear gq sucks. experience wise, their cd-r sucked quite a bit for me. never tried dvd-+r's tho