Meritline High Quality 2x discs

[Doom9]

http://www.meritline.com/newhig47dv2x.html
Has anybody tried those? I'm currently getting sample packs left and right but I haven't seen these particular discs offered separately anywhere and before I order a 50-pack I'd like to know if they're any good. The 1x version (http://www.meritline.com/hig47dvforge.html) seems to be okay (though a bug/omission in DVDDecrypter wasted one of two discs I had so I ordered another 3 just to make sure my first impression is accurate).
And, I'm not talking about the Meritline 2x DVD-Rs (http://www.meritline.com/mer47dvmed2x.html) - these are crap (tried two, both skip all over the place).

[wakebrder]

Doom9, I recently received 2 of these in their "sampler pack". ADVDINFO says:

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 8A 0D 14 .B...@....P.....
88 88 80 00 03 54 44 4B 47 30 32 00 04 30 30 30 .....TDKG02..000

At the same time, I ordered a 25 pack of

2X TDKs (http://www.meritline.com/tdkdvdr.html) ADVDINFO says:

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 98 0C 13 .B...@....P.....
76 78 80 00 03 54 44 4B 47 30 32 00 04 30 30 30 VX...TDKG02..000

What the "VX" means I don't know, but I would save myself the $ .65 per disc and get the meritline flavor. The TDKs have free shipping, but it's only in the US.

Good luck and as always, thanks for the great site!

[thxtof]

Originally posted by Doom9
And, I'm not talking about the Meritline 2x DVD-Rs (http://www.meritline.com/mer47dvmed2x.html) - these are crap (tried two, both skip all over the place).

Just curious, what was the ADVDINFO for these crap mertiline x2 media ?

[wakebrder]

Hmmmmmmm....Guess I can't say for sure if I got the "new" or "old" ones. Doom9, could you give us a ADVDINFO report on your crappy 2X discs? I would hate to misinform anyone.

[Doom9]

taken from the advdinfo thread (I post all my media there and I've just ordered two supermediastore sampler pack and some separate discs from meritline).
Meritline DVD-R 2x - ML-DVDR4.7G-2XW-001 (2x) light purple
Doom9 www.meritline.com (8/2002)
00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 8A 0D 14 .B...@....P.....
88 88 80 00 03 54 44 4B 47 30 32 00 04 30 30 30 .....TDKG02..000

These came in the Meritline sampler.. the discs I'm interested in are not available in any sampler, only in 50/100 disc packs.. that's why I'm asking in the first place (I buy samplers quite often).

[atreides93]

There's no way I'd trust meritline and buy a 50 pack of those without getting some samples first.
I wonder why they don't offer them in single packs...