i have seen many threads about discs and which i best e.g verbs e.t.c.
When i first started copying discs about two years ago i started with a very cheap disc - non branded. I have used these discs the whole time and have had no problems what so ever. I They burn at a max of 8x and are very good. I buy packs of 50 for 10 pounds from my local computer shop, which works out very very cheap.
I stll have discs which were burned two years ago on this media and they still work perfectly!!!!!!
So i think people should try cheap discs for a couple of burns to see if they are up to the quality of there expensive discs for a very cheap/ reasonable price.
safe999, I never knew that. the dvd will stop playing after a while if recorded on some disks? Is there anyway to get the disk to last longer. I use what I can afford. right now Im using best buys brand DINEX. I previously used Maxell. I started to Imagination, but didnt like how those did my CDs. whats a good brand to use.
@mrSmithW. Unfortunately there is nothing you can really do to get your discs to last longer, except keep them out of sun light and away from strong temperatures. quote whats a good brand to use quote. do you mean fro cd's or dvd's. A very good brand for dvd's is verbatims, for my cd's i find use phillips these have worked just fine for me. hope this has helped keep me posted.
Different burners react to different brands of media.It's all about the quality of the manufacturers that produces all this dvd media.
The quality of burners also help out on burning the low quality media. My benqs have no trouble with memosux/aml/and moser bauer. Other burners may have trouble with them.I couldn't say the same about my HP 640c/kypermedia +8x/and I/O magic 16x empa drives.
Not only having problems burning some of this lower quality media,some of those picky-older stand alone players can really pick out the quality difference.That quality will show up in pixellation/freezing/skipping/jumping issues and no disc inserted errors.
Also try scanning some of your older discs for PIE/PIF errors.Use Nero speed test/k-probe/plextools/dvdinfopro and check out some of the lower quality backups and higher quality backups.
Another good test to see how good of backups you have,try re-ripping them on the fly using a copy disc feature of nero/sonic/roxio/etc. Too many read errors,and you'll have crc errors making them very difficult to make copies of later on down the road.
It comes down to how you value that data on those discs. I wouldn't backup my OS with the cheapie stuff.I used Taiyo Yuden discs,along with my best benq burner to do that job! I'll use some of the cheapie stuff on unimportant things,but I keep the burn speed slower and at a reduced backup target.
MrSmithW: If you buy your media locally,just look on those labels for Made in Japan. It's surprising that you can find Taiyo Yuden on the Japanese fujis and Plus format sony 8x's.Also the japanese maxells are made by hitachi and some taiyo yuden in the dash 4x.Those spindles will be all mixed together and for the same price.You just have to take a couple minutes and check those labels good.I really like the Verbatim +8x MCC-003 and the +16x MCC-004 are looking very good. Heck,there isn't hardly anything my benqs don't like,unless I run into a few bad discs.
What format do you prefer?
There can be huge differences between formats of different brands. TDK and Fuji are a couple of examples.
