I've Had it with Generic Media!!! Any brand name recommendations?

[bluespot]

God I'm sick of generic media! It seems like the more generic media I buy, the more frustration and anger I bring into my life!

I finally broke down and bought a 10 pack of verbatims. The price tag really hurt, but guess what? I'm no longer frustrated and angry. I sleep better because I know it's not me, or my burner, or my computer, or my DVD player, or my software, or the friggin black cat that's been hanging around my house...its the g0d d*mn cheap media!!!

ahh...that felt good.

So anyway, please tell me what brand name media is good. I know that Apple, Pioneer, and Verbatim all have the best compatability possible, and all burn at 2x. But are there any others that can compare to these discs...with 2x burn speed and the same compatability?

bluespot

[TRILIGHT]

I've found TDK to be just as reliable but more expensive than the Verbatim's. The Verbatim's are the cheapest "ZERO problem" 2X media I've found yet. I get them from Hypermicro.com for $42 a 10-pack.

[bluespot]

Thanks for the link Trilight!

They've got a 25 pack for 101.25, 110.41 after shipping, or 4.42 each. I'm kicking myself in the arse for not buying a bunch when CompUSA had them on sale for 3.50 a disc :(

Anyone else know of any other good brand name media? How well do the Imations, Sonys, Memorex, etc perform?

Thanks

[tjh011]

Ive burned a couple of the memorex's and havent had any problems at all. They have played perfectly on 4 different stand alones, including my PS2.

[Mosaic]

Well...I have 1st hand exp. with Pengo gold....PrimeDisc...and Vivastar, Mitsui.

These all work ......PrimeDisc gives 1 bad in about 25 or so.But its a VISIBLE defect.....so u dont have to find out after u burn. The defect is in the clear plastic hub ...if there are air bubbles ...its a bad disc. It will burn but fail in verify about half way thru.

Meritline sux big donkey balls. U looking at a 60% fail rate.

Mitsui is a sure thing.

Memorex seems ok as well.

[Commander XJL]

I always buy Apple, but I've used Maxell and TDK, but there not worth the extra money. You could have got 25 Apples for less than your Verbatims, and there nicer looking disks. On the Apples there is no charge for Fedex delivery. You get 25 for 100 dollars

[jrdallas]

Infiniti sucks (tried 3, 2 bad allready)

Optodisc, very satisfied (burned many, not one problem, but only 1x).
I went to Optodisc because:
Apple went 1x, Optodisc was very cheap and reliable (normally contradiction?).

[24hourloop]

Memorex worked without problems for me.

[p3distxii]

Did Memorex burn at 2x for you? I had trouble with them in the past, but I see that they now have newer packaging and come in a 5 pack instead of the usual 3pk. They also say "Version 2" on them. WTF does that mean?

[TRILIGHT]

I've used the "new" Memorex. They still only burn at 1X. Like I mentioned before, I've yet to find a 100% reliable medium as cheap as the Verbatim's. (That burns at 2X)

[Colby]

Commander XJL

Where did you find 25 Apple DVDR's for $100 ?

Colby

[Commander XJL]

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore

when you get there click on media. Its actually 20 for 100 bucks, sorry to get you excited, thats still a good deal though

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by Commander XJL
I always buy Apple, but I've used Maxell and TDK, but there not worth the extra money. You could have got 25 Apples for less than your Verbatims, and there nicer looking disks. On the Apples there is no charge for Fedex delivery. You get 25 for 100 dollars

I'm not sure I follow how they are cheaper than the Verbatim's. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place. I went to the Apple site and all I saw was a 5 pack for $25. That's $5 a piece. Even if you only buy a single Verbatim, they are $4.70 and work flawlessly. Buy them in a 25 pack and it works out to only $4.05 each. There is also the option of purchasing the Verbatim's in a dual-sided format. I've not bought them yet but plan to when I start doing Farscape episodes again.

[Mosaic]

Can anyone find out which manufacturer is the OEM for the VErbatim discs?

Also ...anyone (other than trilight) use TDK with any success??

[Commander XJL]

The Verbatim's actually cost about 6 dollars less than the Apple's for 25 disks, but their so damn ugly next to the Apple's, so I'm sticking with the Apple's. I've had to put up with ugly woman my whole life, I'm not gonna put up with ugly DVDR's.

[Arky]

LMAO @ XJL :D :D :D

Sorry to hear about the Infiniti's - I bought some and have yet to burn them. I shall report back when I do. In the meantime, does anyone know where to get a good deal on the Verbatims in the UK???

Cheers all,


Arky ;o)

[Mosaic]

Hey Commander.....

Got my hands full at the moment ......wanna take a 23 yr old Brazilian Samba Dancer off my hands?


:devil:

[p3distxii]

Amen. I did the same thing (bought the verbatims). It's nice to pull your disc from the tray and know that it is going to work. It's also nice to take a dvd-r to a buddy's house and not worry wheather or not the movie will freeze and stutter. What's the point of paying $2.50 a disc if they're not going to work. Besides, the cdrecordables.com media I was buying had about a 1/2 working ratio in my ps2. Verbatims are six bucks, so paying an extra dollar is no biggie at all. Buying cheapo media is like using cheap condoms. Why take the risk?

[flaystus]

Apple is the way to go with the big name stuff.... before you give up on generics try the Esbuy.com brand gold media thats about $2.80 each if you get the right deal, I've had good results with them, and I like you have had endless problems with the cheap stuff.... btw Esbuy's prices include shipping so that accounts for some of the price difference.

[Arky]

Well I've just burned a couple of Infiniti's DVD-Rs and they play 100% perfectly in my mate's Samsung DVD standalone, so, for the time being at least, I can't say anything against Infiniti's DVD-R offering.


Arky ;o)

[macrosii]

I have come to the same conclusion. Many of the DVDs I have burned will only read in my A04 burner. I thought it was an encoding problem or the burning software. As soon as I tried a quality -RW I could read the same films in all DVDrom and players i tried.

I have been using Bulkpaq Gen3 R2 disks buring at 1x, so wouldnt recommend these (got 40 left, sigh).

[2ZOD.COM]

I'm going to have a DVD burner in a week or so, and by the looks of it I'm going with Verbatim. How can you go wrong with the lifetime warrantee, but do they make any 4x media?

http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/verdat47gbdv.html
Here they have them for as cheap as 2.99 (100 pack, $299), but I'm probably going to buy a 50 pack for $159.50 and it comes out to be $3.19 each with a jewel case. Not bad IMO.

Does anyone know where I can find DVD-style cases for real cheap? The cooler looking the better I guess, but black will suffice. I'm doing a project to convert about 60-70 VHS tapes to DVD and need a bunch of cases.

Thanks.