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Hi autopsy, i take your point,but only go by personal experiance....one mans meat is another mans poison!When i first started burning some 18 months ago I made the fatal mistake of buying the cheap crap (princo) and after many tantrums stumbled across this site which recommended the use of discs with a ritek dye.At the beginning everything went fine until dvd burning spread to the masses(ie much cheaper burners)and the demand for blanks rocketed.It was then i started to find that my fave brand at that time became inconsistant...ie rough edges,seperation around the spindle,uneven dye spread causing coasters.So I tried a variety of blanks,from differant suppliers etc and found that this was becoming a common problem in that one batch would be fine the next dodgy.I must have tried at least a dozen 'ritek'based discs including traxdata,ANV,Arita,clonedisc,ridata,ridisc,ritek purple,Piodata unbranded etc all at diff speed ratings and burned at slow/max.The results were the same bar the ANV....inconsistant.So after reformatting,changing burners dvd drives etc just to remove hardware faults from the equasion,(including a duff mobo) i tried diff ways of ripping/compressing /burning.Same results.So I tried the mcc coded variants ie verbatim..ok but not brilliant.So after over 1200 burns i finally found a supplier of taiyo yudens.which i tried...hurts the wallet but hey what the hell.Havent looked back.I can trust them completely....gets real tedious having to run each burn through dvdinfopro!!.I supoose its the old manufacturing practice of'got a market taking off here, lets chuck any old shit at it'hence all the differant 'ritek'discs.Same principle as buying fuel for your car...its all gasoline but your premium brands will be a hell of differance to your supermarket brands.Yes, the car will run, but not as well.I only wish i had your luck in burning!Its just that cos it says ritek,doesnt mean its any good.hey ho.
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