Maxell 50 pack DVD-R/+R = $17.94 OTD @ Staples

[Solema]

Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

 

[IksokChoy]

Originally posted by: Solema
Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

Was that at BB? I'll try them next time. In the mean time, I'll post the new codes when I p/u the imation disks.

 

[IksokChoy]

Originally posted by: IksokChoy

Originally posted by: Solema
Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

Was that at BB? I'll try them next time. In the mean time, I'll post the new codes when I p/u the imation disks.

Are the codes on the TY (TYG01) or (TYG02) ?

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Solema
Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

Exactly.

And to the member who thinks Fuji use some "codes" like TY ... get a clue.

 

[IanWorthington]

In my local store:
-r is MIT
+r is MIJ

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID MAXELL 002
Media Product Revision Number 00h
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 405405696
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 4D 41 58 45 4C 4C 00 00 30 .......MAXELL..0
00000020 30 32 00 38 23 54 37 12 02 42 71 02 8C 68 15 15 02.8#T7..Bq..h..
00000030 0B 0B 08 08 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................


ian

 

[IanWorthington]

duplicate post

 

[Solema]

The Fuji's have all been TYG02 for me. As long as they say Made in Japan they are TY's. Just stay away from the Made in Taiwan Fuji's.

Best Buy routinely has them on sale either $20 for a 50-pack or $10 for a 25-pack.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: IanWorthington
-r is MIT
+r is MIJ

ian

Actually that's not true. If you are referring to just the 8X Maxell's, they have two media codes, MXLRG03's which are MIJ and Ritek GO5's which are MIT. All the Maxells's I've bought (4Xincluded), that were -R's were Made in Japan, except for one 50pack spindle that was MIT. The -R's were either MXL G02's or TY's. The one spindle of MIT were Ritek G04's, which was crap.

Maxell -R media code

The +R 8X speeds are also MIJ and MIT. The RICOHJPNR's seem to be MIT and the MAXELL..002's are the MIJ ones. 4X codes of the +R's have the same availability of MIJ or MIT. They are either MXL001's(MIJ), RicohJPNR01's(MIJ and MIT, I know this seems confusing), or RitekR02's (MIT). There is no hard, fast, rule anymore on -R's or +R's being made in Japan or Taiwan. You just need to look at the label itself.


Maxell+R media code

edit:
I will say that I am suprised Ricoh JPN001's and 002's can be found MIT, but that is what one person is saying about the 8X +R's. The UPC code is 025215627514, and he/she states that media code is MIT. It is a 25 pack spindle, so it might be different for the 50 pack spindles. Maybe they aren't selling any 50 disc/ spindle that are MIT only MIJ. I would still look carefully for country of mfg anyway. All the MXL002's are MIJ.


There are 50 disc spindles of MXL RG03 around, and these are MIJ.

 

[Scopolamine]

Hi folks

I managed to get one Maxell spindle at Staples that is made in Japan and it was MIJ, of course. What's cool is that I was able to find buck load of Made in Japan DVD+R spindles at the office depot here in San Diego. I just used the Staples advertisement and pricematched to get 2 spindles of the made in Japan ones for 17.94.

Great deal I'd say.

 

[Beefcake04]

Originally posted by: nealh
there have been alot of variation in TY quality lately....

That's very true. I've had some really good and some really bad TY lately.

 

[Slaimus]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: IksokChoy
I think a better deal is over at OfficeMax. Imation 50 pak $17.99 The ones I picked up had a Media I.D. Code Verbatim DataLifePlus DVD-R 8x Advanced AZO (MCC02RG20)
Which a pretty good "No Coaster Burn" disks
Linkafied

Imation DVDs using Verbatim/MCC azo media? That's news to me - and rather hot! (IMHO, MCC azo-based media is actually as good as, or better than, T-Y cyanine-based media, at least it was in the CD-R days. Nowadays I'm not sure what dye type T-Y uses for DVDs.) Thanks for the info.

Do not get fooled by fake MCC media. They let also CMC and Moser Baer use the MCC media codes. The sign of true MCC media is "Made in Singapore", which is becoming rare on even Verbatim branded discs.

 

[hytek369]

thanks

 

[IanWorthington]

Originally posted by: esquared

Originally posted by: IanWorthington
-r is MIT
+r is MIJ

ian

Actually that's not true. If you are referring to just the 8X Maxell's, they have two media codes, MXLRG03's which are MIJ and Ritek GO5's which are MIT. All the Maxells's I've bought (4Xincluded), that were -R's were Made in Japan, except for one 50pack spindle that was MIT. The -R's were either MXL G02's or TY's. The one spindle of MIT were Ritek G04's, which was crap.

Sorry, I meant that's what I found locally, not that that's all that's available. Original post updated.

Is this MIJ MAXELL 002 any good? I've always used Fuji or TDK (even MIT) before, with no problems...

ian

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Slaimus

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: IksokChoy
I think a better deal is over at OfficeMax. Imation 50 pak $17.99 The ones I picked up had a Media I.D. Code Verbatim DataLifePlus DVD-R 8x Advanced AZO (MCC02RG20)
Which a pretty good "No Coaster Burn" disks
Linkafied

Imation DVDs using Verbatim/MCC azo media? That's news to me - and rather hot! (IMHO, MCC azo-based media is actually as good as, or better than, T-Y cyanine-based media, at least it was in the CD-R days. Nowadays I'm not sure what dye type T-Y uses for DVDs.) Thanks for the info.

Do not get fooled by fake MCC media. They let also CMC and Moser Baer use the MCC media codes. The sign of true MCC media is "Made in Singapore", which is becoming rare on even Verbatim branded discs.

all the Imation 50 pk + R spindles I saw at my local OM were labeled(shrinkwrap) made in India ..the 100 pk spindle of Maxell +R got from OD is Maxell 02 ..purple surface some friends thought I had Arita

Is this MIJ MAXELL 002 any good?

yes

 

[princejoe]

sorry, I am new to this DVD media code, please bear with me.
So G01 is the best, and Go4 is the worst, right?
Thanks

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: princejoe
sorry, I am new to this DVD media code, please bear with me.
So G01 is the best, and Go4 is the worst, right?
Thanks

Take a look at this media FAQ. It'll answer your questions.

 

[jae]

Originally posted by: Solema
Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

Why dont u just bypass Fuji and get some authentic TY instead of taking the risk of gettin a different media code just for the brand

 

[Solema]

There is no risk as long as they are made in Japan. Why would I pay a premium to get TY online when I can save some cash and get them at the BB a block away from me? The only TY's you can buy online for the price that BB sells them are 4X rated TY's. Yeah, most can burn those 4X at 8X, but not much higher than that. Every package of Japan Fuji's I've gotten have been 16x rated TY's.

 

[princejoe]

Originally posted by: usernamemax20charact

Originally posted by: princejoe
sorry, I am new to this DVD media code, please bear with me.
So G01 is the best, and Go4 is the worst, right?
Thanks

Take a look at this media FAQ. It'll answer your questions.

thanks, I appreciated it.

 

[jae]

TYG01 can be burnt @ 12x

 

[robertk2012]

let us know if you get that media code again.

Originally posted by: IksokChoy

Originally posted by: robertk2012
Im very suprised at that being the media code. Can anyone confirm this? Or is just very rare?

Just downloaded DVD Identifier from CDFreaks and still get the same codes. So far I'm sold on these. In fact I'm stopping back by OM this A.M. to get another stack to compare and see if all are same codes. If so, I'm happy as a pig in poop.

 

[robertk2012]

Are you talking about me because thats not what I said. I said they use some crappy codes along with the TY(which is one of the best). So why dont you get a clue. And the MIJ maxells are definately as good as TY especially the -r 8x

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Solema
Seems to me like these Maxell's are hit-and-miss regarding getting a quality spindle. Personally, I would rather spend the extra $3 and get a Made in Japan spindle of Fuji that I know are TY and will burn at 16X for me.

Exactly.

And to the member who thinks Fuji use some "codes" like TY ... get a clue.

 

[thatguyant]

I ran dvd identifier on mine and I get a RitekG05... how does that compare? I tried finding a spindle w/ made in japan but couldn't find one so I just bought a pack to test it out.

 

[jae]

G05's quality have been going down the lately

 

[robertk2012]

Im not impressed with the G05s and will make sure to never add anymore to my collection. Cheap CMC media puts the G05 to shame.