I can heartily reccomend NOT buying Rivision Blues (even with G04 dye) good for projects less than 3Gb, anything more and they die every time.
I actually have found that TDK and Sony to be 100% reliable - a bit expensive but worth it.
Total O/T. good deal on dvd balnks
Re: Total O/T. good deal on dvd blanks
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Re: Total O/T. good deal on dvd blanks
Hi,
Interesting - I have burnt plenty of Datawrite Yellow V2 and Ridisc Purple G04 right up to virtually 4.7GB on my Pioneer 107 and they all play on my rather fussy Burnstar 2102SE as well as my 'play anything' (except Bulkcrap!! ) Pacific 1002W
Did get some Sony in Staples on 2 for 1 but dye much lighter than G04.
Only used a couple with under 4GB but certainly played fine.
Thanks.
Interesting - I have burnt plenty of Datawrite Yellow V2 and Ridisc Purple G04 right up to virtually 4.7GB on my Pioneer 107 and they all play on my rather fussy Burnstar 2102SE as well as my 'play anything' (except Bulkcrap!! ) Pacific 1002W
Did get some Sony in Staples on 2 for 1 but dye much lighter than G04.
Only used a couple with under 4GB but certainly played fine.
Thanks.
Re: Total O/T. good deal on dvd blanks
Have burned literally hundreds of Bulkpaq Orange -Rdiscs from the old 2x up to 8x and never had a problem with any. Same is true of the Bulkpaq white +R variety.
Had a few duds when I tried Datawrite Reds and some Prodisc whitetops ended up as coasters.
Arita have always been fine, and the Datawrite printable 4x seem fine. 200 used and no duds so far.
What I would not recommend is the +R 01ne cheapos that ukdvdr are selling. These are the blue ones with a movie clapper board on them. I bought 200 of them to try and around 75% of them have visible disc defects. By that I mean gaps in the dye. Of course the burner will only record up until the first gap in the dye then it fails, so most of these I'm having to look at the discs and guage how much I think I can fit on them before I hit the first gap. Hence these are only of use for short projects. The 25% of them without visual defects seem to be fine, so perhaps I just got supplied with a dodgy batch.
Had a few duds when I tried Datawrite Reds and some Prodisc whitetops ended up as coasters.
Arita have always been fine, and the Datawrite printable 4x seem fine. 200 used and no duds so far.
What I would not recommend is the +R 01ne cheapos that ukdvdr are selling. These are the blue ones with a movie clapper board on them. I bought 200 of them to try and around 75% of them have visible disc defects. By that I mean gaps in the dye. Of course the burner will only record up until the first gap in the dye then it fails, so most of these I'm having to look at the discs and guage how much I think I can fit on them before I hit the first gap. Hence these are only of use for short projects. The 25% of them without visual defects seem to be fine, so perhaps I just got supplied with a dodgy batch.