DVD R Disc - Best Price and overall Good Quality

[dmak]

I'm looking for dvd r disc to burn some backup files and movies. I have been looking at prices, and was wonder what company makes good dvd r disc and at very good prices.

-thanks
-dmak

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: dmak
I'm looking for dvd r disc to burn some backup files and movies. I have been looking at prices, and was wonder what company makes good dvd r disc and at very good prices.

-thanks
-dmak

Depends on your drive. If you want 2X I'd only go with good name brand 2X certified stuff. IMO the best price/quality ratio goes to Apple media, which is rebranded Pioneer DVD-R 2X media. It costs $5 each, which is significantly less than Pioneer charges.

If you want 1X stuff, people have variable success with media costing as low as $2-3 or even less. See here. Some are name brand, but most are not. I'd personally not trust my important data to $1.49 media at this point though.

 

[rmblam]

http://www.cd-recordable.com/ has purple media.

They started shipping out of a new batch a few months ago that now records at 2x; whereas previously only certified Pioneer media would do so. Everything else was limited to 1x on Pioneer drives.

Under $2 a disc and no problems with quality in my experience (and others who recommended them to me).

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: rmblam
http://www.cd-recordable.com/ has purple media.

They started shipping out of a new batch a few months ago that now records at 2x; whereas previously only certified Pioneer media would do so. Everything else was limited to 1x on Pioneer drives.

Under $2 a disc and no problems with quality in my experience (and others who recommended them to me).

So they sell all purple media? Their website isn't the greatest and it's a bit confusing for us non-US people. Strangely enough to get 30 discs it would cost $105, shipped to Canada, with their regular website. Their international website which is meant for Europe and the rest of the world would cost $75, but it's not meant for shipping to Canada.😕

So it works well for you? I'm tempted because if I can get the $75 shipping rate, it works out to half the cost of Apple media.

Given the variability, I wouldn't trust my critical data to it, but it'd be fine for MP3 discs and backups of non-essential stuff, etc.

EDIT:

I guess they don't ship that $75 package to Canada, even though they will to say Thailand or something. Oh well, no business from me then.