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Ghitulescu · 24th January 2011, 16:37

There no need to argue with you.

The quality of a burn depends on how well the burner does understand the medium, on the medium quality as such and on the burner quality as such.

The quality of the DVDR decreased a lot in the past 5 years. The quality of the burners equally decreased. Yamaha, Teac and Plextor opted out, this left us with Sony (which relabels everything), NEC (bad quality), Samsung (probably the worst competitor), LiteOn (decreased quality from 8x DVDburners onwards, with Philips at bord, the BDwriters suffer from many issues) and LG (probably the best bet, especially when money is an issue).

The best DVDRs one can buy now are the JVC, which acquired the media division of TY. I couldn't test one of these as they are not officially sold in Germany and I don't trust online shops nor eBay, there were too many fakes, and the price is high. The second best were (because there are no longer manufactured) the Verbatim archival gold (only 8x). Equally good, as made by the same factory, were the EMTEC gold, again extinct.

Now verbatim relabels MBI products (made with Verbatims' stampers), so does Sony (own stampers). These are still ok compared to 2005, but super compared to what one may buy today (2011).

Then comes the ritek, one of the worst products being the CMC. Philips had once a really good batch (INFOMEDIA R30) but now only CMC.

These are good burns

TTH02 is the last MID from TDK.

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Ghitulescu Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 5,769	There no need to argue with you. The quality of a burn depends on how well the burner does understand the medium, on the medium quality as such and on the burner quality as such. The quality of the DVDR decreased a lot in the past 5 years. The quality of the burners equally decreased. Yamaha, Teac and Plextor opted out, this left us with Sony (which relabels everything), NEC (bad quality), Samsung (probably the worst competitor), LiteOn (decreased quality from 8x DVDburners onwards, with Philips at bord, the BDwriters suffer from many issues) and LG (probably the best bet, especially when money is an issue). The best DVDRs one can buy now are the JVC, which acquired the media division of TY. I couldn't test one of these as they are not officially sold in Germany and I don't trust online shops nor eBay, there were too many fakes, and the price is high. The second best were (because there are no longer manufactured) the Verbatim archival gold (only 8x). Equally good, as made by the same factory, were the EMTEC gold, again extinct. Now verbatim relabels MBI products (made with Verbatims' stampers), so does Sony (own stampers). These are still ok compared to 2005, but super compared to what one may buy today (2011). Then comes the ritek, one of the worst products being the CMC. Philips had once a really good batch (INFOMEDIA R30) but now only CMC. These are good burns TTH02 is the last MID from TDK. __________________ Born in the USB (not USA)