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Retail B&M Blank DVD-R/+R Media Deals

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Last Week's Deal HERE:


Office Max:
Khypermedia 25pk DVD+R $6

Office Depot:
Maxell 50pk DVD-R/+R $18
Maxell 15pk DVD-RW/+RW $10

i actually bought the DVD+RW, they only have MIT 🙂() but the code is Philips041, which i guess is "acceptable"
edit: kprobe scan:
burnt w/ nec 3520a-newest LD bios, scanned w/ lite-on sohw-832s-cg5g bios

CompUSSR:
House Brand 50pk DVD-R/+R $13
Memorex 25pk DVD+RW $13

"Best" Buy:
Memorex 25pk DVD+R $10
Memorex 25pk DVD+RW $20 (bleach)

Circuit City
Philips 25pk DVD-R/+R $9

Staples
House Brand 50pk DVD-R/+R $8
Sony 10pk DVD-RW/+RW $9

Fry's
GQ 25pk DVD+R $5
GQ 25pk DVD+RW $8
GQ's always been a crapshoot, so ???


Does anyone here vouch for memorex?
And always, always check for MIJ 🙂
 
I've used memorex no problem, but I've been using the Office Max Maxell's now, since they're often available at a reasonable price and have good quality... I learned my lesson on cheap media.

 
Originally posted by: unhuman
I've used memorex no problem, but I've been using the Office Max Maxell's now, since they're often available at a reasonable price and have good quality... I learned my lesson on cheap media.
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yes, i've learned a very good lesson on el cheapo media :beer:
 
Best Buy has the 50-pack Dynex (Ritek) media for 5.99 to 12.99 depending on the store. Some even have Memorex 50-pack for 8.99. These are +R. If made in Taiwan, Memorex are either Ritek or CMC. If made in India, they are suck. Staples brand are CMC, so they are not bad, depending on your burner. NEC will burn great on CMC.

Oh yeah, these are in-store.
 
got the staples brand 50 pack dvd+r

media code:
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:CMC MAG-E01-000]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [DVD+R]
Manufacturer Name : [CMC Magnetics Corp.]
Manufacturer ID : [CMC MAG]
Media Type ID : [E01]
Product Revision : [Not Specified]
Blank Disc Capacity : [Not Supported By Method 2]
Recording Speeds : [1x , 2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x]
[Method 2 Might Not Always Detect All Speeds]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

the memorex brand has the same media code + or - it dosnt matter same trash...
 
Fry's[/u]
GQ 25pk DVD+R $5
...
GQ's always been a crapshoot, so ???
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I have good luck with GQ media, but I agree with your assessment. 😛 My old NEC 16x burner was really picky with several different types of GQ media, but my current Benq DW1620 handles it almost as well as the older Lite-On (8x) burners did. The quality scans at 8x are excellent. I should go pick up another spindle.

Here's the media ID of the GQ DVD+R spindle I picked up:
Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID SONY D11
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 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Linear Density Blank Disc
Track Density Unknown
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 01 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 53 4F 4E 59 00 00 00 00 44 .......SONY....D
00000020 31 31 00 38 23 54 37 14 00 32 6F 00 96 6A 17 19 11.8#T7..2o..j..
00000030 0C 0C 0A 0B 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 ................

 
Originally posted by: pxc
Fry's[/u]
GQ 25pk DVD+R $5
...
GQ's always been a crapshoot, so ???
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I have good luck with GQ media, but I agree with your assessment. 😛 My old NEC 16x burner was really picky with several different types of GQ media, but my current Benq DW1620 handles it almost as well as the older Lite-On (8x) burners did. The quality scans at 8x are excellent. I should go pick up another spindle.

Here's the media ID of the GQ DVD+R spindle I picked up:
Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID SONY D11
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 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Linear Density Blank Disc
Track Density Unknown
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 01 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 53 4F 4E 59 00 00 00 00 44 .......SONY....D
00000020 31 31 00 38 23 54 37 14 00 32 6F 00 96 6A 17 19 11.8#T7..2o..j..
00000030 0C 0C 0A 0B 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 ................
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yeah, see? crapshoot! you never know what youre gonna get (sometimes good, sometimes bad)

i wanna see the scans 😀
 
Originally posted by: moonsite
Best Buy has the 50-pack Dynex (Ritek) media for 5.99 to 12.99 depending on the store. Some even have Memorex 50-pack for 8.99. These are +R. If made in Taiwan, Memorex are either Ritek or CMC. If made in India, they are suck. Staples brand are CMC, so they are not bad, depending on your burner. NEC will burn great on CMC.

Oh yeah, these are in-store.
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CMC will burn fine. But you'll learn the hardway when it comes time to read the media in the future. If you "need" the data later on, but something better than this.
 
Originally posted by: mainomega
Originally posted by: moonsite
Best Buy has the 50-pack Dynex (Ritek) media for 5.99 to 12.99 depending on the store. Some even have Memorex 50-pack for 8.99. These are +R. If made in Taiwan, Memorex are either Ritek or CMC. If made in India, they are suck. Staples brand are CMC, so they are not bad, depending on your burner. NEC will burn great on CMC.

Oh yeah, these are in-store.
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CMC will burn fine. But you'll learn the hardway when it comes time to read the media in the future. If you "need" the data later on, but something better than this.
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media defect is caused by scratches before you burn them. these are like smeared, they look like someone shiton them like dog poo 😱
some sell 2x that are like that, it's crap and won't even burn at 2x
 
I went to Circuit City last night and found a 50 pack 16X speed Memorex DVD+R for $18. Its in my car, I don't know where it was manufactured. (its in a purple plastic wrap, if that helps)

Was this a good deal? I ended up buying two, couldn't find other cheap media 16X rated.
 
Originally posted by: mainomega
Originally posted by: moonsite
Best Buy has the 50-pack Dynex (Ritek) media for 5.99 to 12.99 depending on the store. Some even have Memorex 50-pack for 8.99. These are +R. If made in Taiwan, Memorex are either Ritek or CMC. If made in India, they are suck. Staples brand are CMC, so they are not bad, depending on your burner. NEC will burn great on CMC.

Oh yeah, these are in-store.
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CMC will burn fine. But you'll learn the hardway when it comes time to read the media in the future. If you "need" the data later on, but something better than this.
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Hmmm, now you've got me worried. I've been hoarding cheap media every time I see them on sale. What if you only burn them at their rated speed (or lower)? Would that help it when trying to read them back later?
 
Originally posted by: Furtive
I went to Circuit City last night and found a 50 pack 16X speed Memorex DVD+R for $18. Its in my car, I don't know where it was manufactured. (its in a purple plastic wrap, if that helps)

Was this a good deal? I ended up buying two, couldn't find other cheap media 16X rated.
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I dunno, i dont trust any MIT (made in Taiwan) media. so maybe it'll work good, maybe it'll work bad. who knows! its just that w/ MIJ, there's a less chance (very low 😉) of dvd failures/quality issues

Originally posted by: BBock7271
lets add the media codes to the top of that list. plz edit the posts.. Any TYs in there?
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Most of those probably won't be TY. However, i'd say the BEST media on this week's list is the Maxell MIJ, last time i got MXL RG03 for -R, and Maxell 002 for +R. I got Philips041 for +RW, and even though it's MIT, it seems alright.
 
Originally posted by:
Does anyone here vouch for memorex?
And always, always check for MIJ 🙂
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when it comes to burners, Memorex DVD-RW/DVD+rw's are very picky to when they decide to work. It might be my burner or it might be the discs but in mine and a friend's burner these have worked prolly once out of 5 times
 
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