I just bought a dvd recorder (to record television shows and movies from Showtime).
Anyway, I have only used Taiyo Yuden dvd-r when I burn movies on my computer and I have had no problems (I only buy them from SuperMediaStore or meritline.com because I don?t want to risk getting fake media.
Now I want to buy some rewritable media for recording weekly television shows (4x) and I was coming to this forum for advice.
Please give me examples of what you have had great success with. I see that both of the above websites are having great deals right now so I was planning on buying some media, so if anyone can tell me exactly what type of rewritable dvd-rw they would buy, I?d appreciate the help.
By the way, I assume a small quantity (maybe just 6 disks) is all that I would need since I will be using these disks during the week and watching shows on the weekend and then I can burn on the same disks again?
If the recorder say dash format,stick with the dash format.Most of those recorders are single format only.My cyberhome recorder is plus format only.
I scoured the local on sale dash rw media and the only good deal:Under a buck apiece is Office Depot 5 packs with jewel cases for $4 a pack. Usually Office depot has quite a few maxell sales and the -rw's are a pretty good deal.
There's some good deals on -rw riteks at those stores you listed.Also throw in rima.com. I haven't heard of fakes on rw media.
Avoid memosux rw's. Fuji/maxell/ritek should be very good. I've got some tks +rw's that are pretty good,but I wouldn't buy the r's,LOL
If your recorder can burn to DVD+RWs, use them instead. DVD-RWs only have an advantage in video editing. DVD+RWs do not need to be finalized and they will work in other DVD players or PC DVD drives. Most DVD-RWs will only work in your own recorder and need to be finalized. Verbatims are pretty good rewritables, but I mostly have Ridatas. I bought 100 of them for $30 from Newegg about 6 months ago. But if you want quality, and since you only need a handful, I'd recommend you buy Verbatims. But be careful of the speed rating. Most DVD recorders can't handle the newer 8X DVD+/-RWs, only the slower 4X and 2.4X. It should say so in your manual.
