Where to buy DVD's that burn well?
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Newegg.
Ordered and burned probably about 150 DVDs in the last 3 months or so. Club cd freaks is a great place for info about this. Go for anything that is Yuden. 8X taiyo yudens usually burn at 16X easily. I have not had a single coaster with nec nd-3520a.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817150150
Ordered and burned probably about 150 DVDs in the last 3 months or so. Club cd freaks is a great place for info about this. Go for anything that is Yuden. 8X taiyo yudens usually burn at 16X easily. I have not had a single coaster with nec nd-3520a.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817150150
Hurricane Andrew
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Well, they're a bit pricey, but you can get high quality media at Supermediastore. Just keep an eye out for their specials and sign up for their mailing list.
Verbatims (with MCC manf. ID) are great media.
TDK makes some very high quality media as well.
I've been using Ritek/Ridata with my NEC and I haven't had any issues. My PS2 doesn't like them as much as the Vermatim or TDK but Ridata is perfect for my DVD player.
TDK makes some very high quality media as well.
I've been using Ritek/Ridata with my NEC and I haven't had any issues. My PS2 doesn't like them as much as the Vermatim or TDK but Ridata is perfect for my DVD player.
DVDDecrypter or DVDInfo will show you the manufacturer ID. Unfortunately there's no way to tell from the package.
Meritline has a "pro" grade section:
http://www.meritline.com/dvd-r-blank-media-1.html
Meritline has a "pro" grade section:
http://www.meritline.com/dvd-r-blank-media-1.html
Fuji ....made in japan
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...=5222056&type=product&id=1051384654956
They were on sale for $19.99....you'll have to wait til the next sale in a week or two.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...=5222056&type=product&id=1051384654956
They were on sale for $19.99....you'll have to wait til the next sale in a week or two.
I Picked up 300 Maxells made in Japan DVD-R 8 X that seemed pretty good, I got like 5 left.
I've treid alot of the cheaper media and almost all of them gave me troubles, I've had good luck with Memorex to but that was in the past.
Cheaper, crappy media will lead to freezing and skipping on standalone DVD players mostly in the last 10 - 15 minutes of the disc.
I hear taiyo yudens are really good but the only problem is I don't want ot buy them on-line and don't know where else to get them.
Also check out videohelp . com they have a good list of DVD media you could look some up.
I've treid alot of the cheaper media and almost all of them gave me troubles, I've had good luck with Memorex to but that was in the past.
Cheaper, crappy media will lead to freezing and skipping on standalone DVD players mostly in the last 10 - 15 minutes of the disc.
I hear taiyo yudens are really good but the only problem is I don't want ot buy them on-line and don't know where else to get them.
Also check out videohelp . com they have a good list of DVD media you could look some up.
Don't see what the problem is. I've used HP, TDK, Memorex, Kypermedia and never had a coaster yet on two different burners, an older Pioneer 4X, and my current NEC. I just buy what is on sale.
A lot of Maxwells are fine, you just have to make sure to get ones that say made in Japan on them since not all of them are.
I've heard some bad things about Meritline, but what I really can't believe is that so many people are recommending Supermediastore. Go to Resellerratings.com and you'll see 9 full pages of "very dissatisfied" comments.
Ritek is normally decent media; it's the best of the cheap stuff (although these days with the very best stuff being about 0.50 it's dumb to get anything else). Ritek always worked perfectly for me, but three different times I bought Ritek media from Supermediastore and it was complete trash. Apparently Ritek grades their media A, B and C, so all I can guess is that the stuff Supermediastore sells in a shrink-wrapped stack is C-grade. I've gotten 100-packs that the entire stack was unreliable past the 4,000,000,000-byte mark.
Since they were so unreliable towards the outer edge, I burned the last 80 of the discs without going past 3,950,000,000 bytes, but a year later most of them are totally unreadable.
I must admit that Supermediastore has some pretty good deals if you want DVD cases with your media. I've gotten three 100-packs of cases from them, and every time about 8 were broken. Looking at the comments, this is very common, and if you call to complain they blame it on UPS (even though the cases are obviously all scuffed up inside the box).
They've sent me Ritek G02 media instead of Ritek G03 media before (which was also pretty sub-par). If you look on resellerratings, you'll see that sending you the wrong thing is nothing new to these guys. Half the complaints are about them sending the wrong thing and then customer service hanging up. A lot of times they send cheaper media. There are many reports of them sending 2X instead of 4X, 4X instead of 8X, 8X instead of 16X. There are even complaints of getting used (already burned) media.
Anyway, I've had too many bad experiences with DVD-/+Rs, mostly from Supermediastore, and I have found several Verbatims that weren't recognized at all in old players when Taiyo Yudens worked fine. Lately I only buy Taiyo Yudens from Rima.com. The discs are so well made you can actually tell that they're more rigid than other DVD-Rs.
Rima.com is great. They're cheaper than Newegg and have a better selection.
Ritek is normally decent media; it's the best of the cheap stuff (although these days with the very best stuff being about 0.50 it's dumb to get anything else). Ritek always worked perfectly for me, but three different times I bought Ritek media from Supermediastore and it was complete trash. Apparently Ritek grades their media A, B and C, so all I can guess is that the stuff Supermediastore sells in a shrink-wrapped stack is C-grade. I've gotten 100-packs that the entire stack was unreliable past the 4,000,000,000-byte mark.
Since they were so unreliable towards the outer edge, I burned the last 80 of the discs without going past 3,950,000,000 bytes, but a year later most of them are totally unreadable.
I must admit that Supermediastore has some pretty good deals if you want DVD cases with your media. I've gotten three 100-packs of cases from them, and every time about 8 were broken. Looking at the comments, this is very common, and if you call to complain they blame it on UPS (even though the cases are obviously all scuffed up inside the box).
They've sent me Ritek G02 media instead of Ritek G03 media before (which was also pretty sub-par). If you look on resellerratings, you'll see that sending you the wrong thing is nothing new to these guys. Half the complaints are about them sending the wrong thing and then customer service hanging up. A lot of times they send cheaper media. There are many reports of them sending 2X instead of 4X, 4X instead of 8X, 8X instead of 16X. There are even complaints of getting used (already burned) media.
Anyway, I've had too many bad experiences with DVD-/+Rs, mostly from Supermediastore, and I have found several Verbatims that weren't recognized at all in old players when Taiyo Yudens worked fine. Lately I only buy Taiyo Yudens from Rima.com. The discs are so well made you can actually tell that they're more rigid than other DVD-Rs.
Rima.com is great. They're cheaper than Newegg and have a better selection.
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Thanks tostada..so which ones -r +r
these seem like a good deal
http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant....duct_Code=1736-100&Category_Code=TAIYO
these seem like a good deal
http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant....duct_Code=1736-100&Category_Code=TAIYO
Those are what I'd get (and they burn at 12X in most stuff). I don't think you can really go wrong with any of the TY 8X or 16X, -R or +R, but I just stick with burning the -R 8X at 12X because the testing at cdrlabs.com showed that to be the highest quality burn for my burner.
In most burners (like Pioneer and Plextor) the TY -Rs have the best results, although in the NEC-3520A the TY +Rs have the best results (and you can also use bitsetting if you're into that sort of thing).
Originally posted by: RobCur
i've used only generic media. their cheap and they are perfect for what you use, junk stuff!
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