WARM: Pioneer 2x DVD-RW media $5.56 shipped per disc

mattcham

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Title says it all. Pioneer name-brand. UPS Ground shipping.
Note this is 2x (burn time = 30 min), not 1x (burn time = 1 hour).
Note that this is DVD-RW, not DVD-R.
This media will burn at 2x in Pioneer DVR-A05,
and NOT Pioneer DVR-A04 which will either burn it
at 1x or damage the drive if containing a firmware bug.

Link to Hypermicro

Cheapest competitor I could find was $10 to $12 per disc.
Maybe better off with Ritek DVD-R, but current 1-hour burn
time on Pioneer DVR-A05 is unacceptably painful for me.

As an aside, when I bought my first CD-R drive back in
1993 ($800 Ricoh 2x with CD-R caddy), the 2x blank CD-R
media cost $20 per disc in "discount" quantities of 100.
Not even worth backing-up music CDs at the time.

By the way, if there is anyone in Rochester, NY, who
wants to split a 25-pack of these 2x DVD-RW with me,
please send me a private message.
 

dbz007

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Just wondering how you got it for $5.56 shipped.

I went to their site and the Pioneer 2x DVD-RW are $5.90 + $6.14 shipping = $12 shipped.
Am I missing something?
Hypermicro has some good prices for those and the Ritek 4x DVD-R that will actually burn at 4x on the Pioneer DVR-105.