Player or Media Revisited

[F0sgateman]

I figured since I got the media and was able to burn Shrek with DTS and DD filling the entire DVD (ok, 3 megs free) and getting no skips with the silver Reiteks with the purple media I should post that these still cheap DVD's ($65 for 50) work great. Something else I should note, fast forwarding and skipping chapters is much much faster, just like a pressed DVD. The Optodiscs skipped in fast forward real bad, played about every 30th frame or so, these ones play about every 3 frams in fast forward. Chapter are way faster, split second for a chapter instead of a second or 2 with the optodisc. I will be using these exclusivly from now on. I got them on shop4tech.com incase you are interested. I don't have advinfo, but I will get it and run it, I'm sure these are the G3's that everyone is talking about though.:)

[atreides93]

I've been pretty happy with Ritek's

[F0sgateman]

As an update to my previous post, I'd like to say that the Ritek's, while indeed being much better then the optodisc, still have slight skips at the ends. I am now convinced that it's my DVD player, being older then 1 year, was not designed to handle DVD-R media. Can anyone make a recomendation of a good player that's not real expensive and has component outputs with progressive scan? If toshiba makes one with the colorstream that plays DVD-R's great, that's the kind of TV I have, and it has colorstream inputs, one of the reasons I have the Toshiba DVD player now. I want something that can play anything I throw in it though, so if I have to go pioneer, that's fine too. Thanks

[Fredrick]

My Philips 724 I just got plays everything. The only problem with it is that it doesn't play CC.

[padre]

F0sgateman

I use an Apex 3201 for my progressive scan player (hooked up to my 53" Pioneer HDTV). Works nice, and plays everything I throw at it.

Padre

[F0sgateman]

Have you both tried these players with Ritek Media or Optodisc? I don't plan on using Optodisc anymore but I do have a few movies that are only on the first 3 gigs of the DVD and figure they don't skip now so should be ok. I'd like to make sure when I get a new player it will play the cheaper media, not the cheapest, but cheap (1.20-2.00 range)

Thanks

[Fredrick]

I mainly use Ritek media and it plays in my Philips 724, Apex 703, Ge 5803, Yamakawa and Pioneer 434. The Pioneer is more picky about how the DVD is authored.

[padre]

I use PrimeDisc, which are in fact RitekG3 media. They work fine in my two Apex players, one Samsung, one Sony and one Panasonic portable.

I've never used OptoDisc.

[F0sgateman]

I've checked a few that you 2 mentioned, I think I may try the philips model, it's not very expensive for the features and does mention DVD+RW playback. Thanks for the help guys.