The link posted above by gsxrboy is really interesting.
Sorry I can't supply links but I'll supply some anecdotes. I have seen someplace on a site selling various DVD media reviews saying Ritek was among the best media. This agrees with the site posted by gsxrboy.
My wife put together a substantial project for our son's grade school class. She produced a couple of DVDs and then made about 30 copies on her iMac. For this purpose we purchased very cheap DVD-Rs on the internet.
The discs burned and verified without a problem on her 17" iMac. I found that I could not burn a DVD with that media on my 15" Al PB. They would burn OK but fail during verification.
We didn't get any complaints but we noticed at a friend's home when playing these on a very cheap DVD player that while the disc played there were many skips, pauses and other artifacts. I get fewer but similar problems viewing these on my PB.
Other projects we did using Apple and other branded DVD media have performed very well.
Conclusion: Our experience is that cheap media, even if they burn without error on a given DVD burner, produce unsatisfactory results on consumer DVD players. Now that quality media is becoming fairly cheap we will no longer look for steeply discounted media.
I've tried cheapies and "quality" brands and found that Verbatim DataLifePlus DVD-R discs (printable with jewel cases) were really good and reasonably priced.
Datawrite 'classic reds' (25 spindle) were cheaper but some discs had a few artifacts on them after burning.
Similarly priced "Infiniti" discs were better than the Datawrite and had a nice white top for printing.
Go with the branded stuff for archiving and the cheaper for give-aways.
That's interesting. At Fry's the Maxell discs were pretty cheap and had the best labeled surfaces, so I went with them. Looks like that was a good idea. According to that site both the Apple 2x and 4x discs are OEM'd by Maxell.
Based on a bit of research and foruming I did, the Riteks G04's spesh the printable whitetops are just the bees knees at the mo, the fact that they make the disks for tdk now shows that their build process must be good enuf for the big companies to put their name against.. It would be handy if there was a utility like that dvdinfo thing for mac so you could check the media id.. (I have toast 5 and this doesnt do it, maybe v6 can?) I got myself a pack of 50 this week and I am working thru them archiving a lot of motorbike racing, so far so good..
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Originally posted by adirks
hi all,
apart from the official Apple DVD-R media, does anybody
have any good experience with a particular brand of
DVD-R meda.
this would be for the new 4x superdrives.
cheers,
arno.
memorex
They are cheap, and reliable. Work with all the DVD players I've tried too...except for the few that didn't seem to work with any brand DVD-R
Sorry I can't supply links but I'll supply some anecdotes. I have seen someplace on a site selling various DVD media reviews saying Ritek was among the best media. This agrees with the site posted by gsxrboy.
My wife put together a substantial project for our son's grade school class. She produced a couple of DVDs and then made about 30 copies on her iMac. For this purpose we purchased very cheap DVD-Rs on the internet.
The discs burned and verified without a problem on her 17" iMac. I found that I could not burn a DVD with that media on my 15" Al PB. They would burn OK but fail during verification.
We didn't get any complaints but we noticed at a friend's home when playing these on a very cheap DVD player that while the disc played there were many skips, pauses and other artifacts. I get fewer but similar problems viewing these on my PB.
Other projects we did using Apple and other branded DVD media have performed very well.
Conclusion: Our experience is that cheap media, even if they burn without error on a given DVD burner, produce unsatisfactory results on consumer DVD players. Now that quality media is becoming fairly cheap we will no longer look for steeply discounted media.
Datawrite 'classic reds' (25 spindle) were cheaper but some discs had a few artifacts on them after burning.
Similarly priced "Infiniti" discs were better than the Datawrite and had a nice white top for printing.
Go with the branded stuff for archiving and the cheaper for give-aways.
Originally posted by gsxrboy
see www.nomorecoasters.com
That's interesting. At Fry's the Maxell discs were pretty cheap and had the best labeled surfaces, so I went with them. Looks like that was a good idea. According to that site both the Apple 2x and 4x discs are OEM'd by Maxell.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=76