am i safe with tdk dvd-rs?

[Syfer]

ive got several hundred dvd-rs, most on princo, with some ritek and after all the complaints about princo ive decided to back everything i have onto brand name.
i bought and burn a 25-pack of tdks and theyre working great.
all i want is for my dvds to last for a long time, is tdk the best brand to go with? or should i try something else instead.
also, is there any quality difference between the the tdks made in taiwan (25-packs) and the dvds made in japan (15-packs)?
thanks,
~Syfer

[gooki]

If there's no price difference go for the ones made in japan.

[Syfer]

tdks are a bit hard to find at a cheap price.
but best buy sells 25-pks for $50 (made in taiwan)
the 15-pks (made in japan) are from circuit city and are around $40.

[gooki]

$2.00 a disc is a good price for quality brand name media.

[Syfer]

yeah, i was pleasantly surprised when i went to best buy and saw the prices for tdks. the one near me doesnt carry much, only tdk, fuji and some no-name brand. fuji is a bit cheaper but considering fuji = ritek, tdk is the way to go.
i store all my dvds in jewel cases in a box so hopefully if theyre all on tdks they should last for many years

[mudda_t]

...but considering fuji = ritek...
As far as I know Fuji dvd-r's are made by Taiyo Yuden (aka TY), not Ritek. I did a quick scan through the forums and someone mentioned Fuji dvd-rw's were Ritek.
I know for a fact that Fuji dvd-r's are TY because I just pulled one out and ran DVD Identifier and got -TYG01-.
A 4x ten pack at best buy is $25 and sometimes you can get them for $15 after rebate. (make sure the print says made in japan)

I personally believe Taiyo Yuden are the best money can buy, and if I had to pick between TDK or Taiyo Yuden it would be the TY's every time.

[echooff]

Anytime you buy spindle packaged disk you run the risk of getting inferior media. Brand doesn't seem to matter. The last time I bought tdk on the spindle every other disk was a coaster. This has been true for others also.

[alexnoe]

Did they by chance contain faked TDK codes and were in fact made by Princo?

[Syfer]

the quality of the fujis might vary from store to store
all i know is that on the spindle i bought at best buy,
the media id code for all the fujis was RITEKG03

[Imperial Zeppelin]

At this point, the only "name brand" DVD-Rs that I've seen that weren't Riteks or something else are TDKs which are, in fact, TDK.

Verbatim Datalife - Ritek G03
Fujis from BestBuy - Ritek G03
Memorex - Ritek G03

I've given up; if I don't want to spend the $1.69 for TDKs, BestBuy had a sale awhile ago and it was $169 for a 100 spindle pack, I buy Riteks as Riteks for under a buck.

[RBremen]

In regard to the TDKs DVD-R 2x, I have purchased about 60 of them from Micro Center recently. They are individual DVD-R discs packaged in a set of five. Funny thing is that when using DVD Decrypter approximately half are TDK the others are Ritek G04s. Even in the same set of five the manufacturers are different. Go figure.

[atreides93]

Good lord that is scary. So basically all these guys are just oeming it from Ritek??? sheesh!

Well on the plus side, that means they're good disks...but on the negative side it means you're paying a premium for no reason.

I'd still stick with TDK or even SONY. Any of you guys tried SONY disks ? A friend of mine bought me a 5 pack, and so far they seem to be pretty good. DVD Decryptor reports their manufacturer ID as being SONY, not Ritek or some other company.

[macrosii]

Just used the 1st of a batch of 40 jeweled case 1-4X TDK +R and its manu code is RICOHJPNR0, I had a batch of 50 Riteks which all had the same code, they were pretty good but im paying twice as much for these (dye colour dark blue/purple)

The Maxells I had were MCC
The Verbatems (cake) were GMC (real crap)
The latest 2x-r riteks i bought are G03s and have the lowest error rate of all the disks I have used so far, got them here http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/acatalog/DVDR.html

[Toona]

Just my .02$ my last 100 DVD-R 's have been RITEKG03's and I haven't have a bad burn yet with them and they have really low error rates. I also bought some TDK's from Target they worked well decent burns with all 10 but error rates were worse than my RITEK's so I'll be stickin to my G03's for a while :-)

[GParent]

FWIW, the TDK 4X DVD+R, made by RICOHJPNR0, has a perfect track record for 8X burns on Plextor 708A. The same Plextor is burning the TDK 2X DVD-R, from MicroCenter, at 4X speed. TDK + Plextor 708A = Double Speed Burn Bliss!

Also, on the 1st of every month, MicroCenter has regularly had a special on TDK 5-packs. The last two months it was DVD-R, but they were selling the DVD+Rs with 5 units packs at $5.95 back in October.

MicroCenter has the best TDK sale prices around. They must have a great distribution deal with them.