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Good DVD+R DL 8x media?

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slowpogo

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The only such media I can find is Verbatim and Ritek. The Verbatim won't go past 4.2x in my drive, and the Ritek supposedly isn't fully compliant with Philips' standards. Anyone know of other good 8x DVD+R DL media?
 
there is only verbatim for what can be considered "good" dl media. ritek will burn like crap on second layer, not to mention have horrible life because of poor dye quality and make.

since you're burning movies with these discs, you might as well get the verbatims, and burn it slow and do it right. go to cdfreaks.com to read up on topics like these with people obsessed with near perfect burns.
 
The good stuff is expensive. Staples charges about 5 bucks a disc. Or 3.50 if you get a big spindle.

You can try www. m e r i t l i n e.com, but they have mostly cheap stuff in the DL variety.
 
It seems there are dozens of drives available now that support 8x DL burning, or higher. At this point I'm sure most new PCs ship with OEM optical drives that support 8x DL, maybe they have been for awhile. So why does Verbatim hold the monopoly; where are Memorex and all the others?

Still, I don't mind paying $6 to backup my entire MP3 collection on 3 discs....
 
Verbatim disks are made by Mitsubishi Chemical Company, a world leader in media manufacturing in terms of quality up in the ranks with Taiyo Yuden. DL technology is still relatively new, and it doesn't matter how fast you can burn it, if the burn has tons of errors in it. It takes a good company to make such disks that would be error free, and so far MCC does it best. TY afaik doesn't even make DL disks. Ritek tries to makes dl disks but they are horrible stuff. Some other companies attempt to make DL disks as well, but they are no better than Ritek. It's not so much a monopoly rather than a dearth of quality.
 
Actually, movie DVDs you buy in the store are dual layer DVD9 discs, and have been for several years at this point. So the base technology isn't new at all. Why is it taking so long for that technology to trickle into the consumer PC market? So many people are still transcoding DVDs to half their size or ditching special features in order to copy them...when it's become unnecessary. 2.4x DL discs are pretty cheap and readily available, and as was said before almost any new drive will support DL at 2.4x at least. Anyway, enough bellyaching...
 
The movie DVDs you buy in store are dual layer dvd 9 discs - correct. HOWEVER, they are printed discs. Printed discs are vastly different from the dvd9 DL discs you burn. The discs you burn on use dye technology to write their data. Store bought movies use presses that print on metal. So no, the burning technology is new. They keep on making faster drives, without improving burn quality/strategy and disc quality, which is where alot of the problems stem from.

As far as why people recode/transcode disks... that is because decent DL media like Verbatims still cost atleast a buck fifty where as a re-encoding a dvd9 movie onto a single layer taiyo yuden disk costs a few hours + 20 cents with little or no video degradation.

Yes, if you have money, who cares, just buy a spindle of dl verbatims, and burn away, just make sure you are getting consistent quality burns. 😉

 
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