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Any Successful Non-Verbatim DL discs?
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jdgreger
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4. February 2010 @ 17:07 |
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Just used up my last verbatim, and wondering if memorex could work? Anyone been using non verbatim discs with success? Which one is a good alternative.
I have the jasper motherboard xbox with 74850C lite on
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Deepdivet
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4. February 2010 @ 17:12 |
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You will find a very strong following here for the Verbatim. I will say that as a test and while I was learning I did buy a 25 pack of the memorex and I was able to burn all 25 of them with no issues at all. I even did it at 8x speed. Now the downfall is that people say that the dye is not as good causing the laser to work harder and cause early failure. I can not answer to that as I am new and have not had any issues at all.
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4. February 2010 @ 18:09 |
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I've had 4 benqs that have used memorexs on 6x exclusively and they've all handled them well with no read issues too
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jdgreger
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4. February 2010 @ 18:42 |
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anyone have a case of premature laser failure (i giggle when i type that) due to the memorex?
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4. February 2010 @ 19:33 |
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even if it were to fail prematurely with the price difference between verbs and memorex you could buy a new drive after like two spindles with the money you save
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scooter22
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4. February 2010 @ 19:36 |
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I use Verbs and Philips brands with no troubles. The Philips are half the price and so far no coasters or bad lasers.
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Padrino90
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4. February 2010 @ 19:41 |
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Has anyone tried Ritek DVD's, they worked really well on the old xbox, and the purple colour is very dark, which is good i hear???
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5. February 2010 @ 06:53 |
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I use Aone DL DVD's, they have done me proud over the last 2 years and any coasters have been down to operator error not the DVD's quality. On the plus side they are also full face printable :)
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Cubesteak
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5. February 2010 @ 10:41 |
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So far I have onlt trusted Verbatim's and Memorex 2nd (as some memorex are manufactured with the same dye code as Verbatim's)
I also tried a brand called Nexxtech, they suck.. pure coasters.
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360lifer
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5. February 2010 @ 11:14 |
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Myself and everyone I know uses Memorex so well over a thousand burns with no issues. I see that TDK is now price the same as Memorex so I might try them depending on who has free shipping.
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5. February 2010 @ 11:30 |
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Aone Plus have been great for me.Only coaster i have had is when my 1 year old daughter turned off my pc half way through the burn.I've been using them for nearly 2 years now.I can get 50 discs for £18 off ebay.
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5. February 2010 @ 12:14 |
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Verbs and arita here, the arita discs are really good, not one bad burn in 2 and a half years.
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Cubesteak
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5. February 2010 @ 13:02 |
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I just bought 2 x 50 packs of memorex from newegg for 69.81 usd
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tozadog
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5. February 2010 @ 14:05 |
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I just picked up a 25 pack of Arita's for £12 from my local shop which compared to the £27 that i was paying for 25 Verb's is quite a saving indeed!!!
Just burned Dante's Inferno on 6x and been playing for over an hour with no problems whatsoever so looks to me like i wont be buying verbs again anytime soon !!
Im burning Bioshock 2 now on an Arita so will update on how that plays!
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Deepdivet
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6. February 2010 @ 00:17 |
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I would not normally keep a thread like this living, but after my earlier post I finally had my first bad burn on a Memorex.... Guess I should have kept my mouth shut...haha.. karma I guess. But it is still not bad out of 30 and I have one bad burn. Now keep in mind that I did just finish ripping about 30 dvd's over to .vobs for my xbox to play and downloading 14 gig without a reboot. I rebooted and the next one went without a hitch as normal....
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tozadog
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6. February 2010 @ 04:52 |
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Just to update the Bioshock 2 that a burnt on an arita works flawlessly!
Ordered 25 Aone plus from ebay for £9 so just give them a try too .
Looks to me like the inferior discs are standing up well to the mighty verbs!
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htorihpeS
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6. February 2010 @ 08:28 |
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If you install all games to the hd, then maybe it might be okay but for the small difference in price, verbatim should be used. Buy them in bulk online to get them as cheap as possible. Should work out $2 a game or less (excluding delivery fixed cost).
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Maybe I'm, wrong. It seems other brands do work well and are significantly cheaper. Its the effect they have on the drive's laser that would concern me but good to see you experimenting. Verbatim discs will come down in price with more people turning to the competition so its all good. Having said that, these discs are a small price to pay for free games :).
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biglo30
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6. February 2010 @ 18:33 |
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Originally posted by scooter22:
I use Verbs and Philips brands with no troubles. The Philips are half the price and so far no coasters or bad lasers.
I second the phillips, its all I ever use and it works perfect everytime at a decent price.
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rmken
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6. February 2010 @ 19:16 |
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Originally posted by Padrino90:
Has anyone tried Ritek DVD's, they worked really well on the old xbox, and the purple colour is very dark, which is good i hear???
I've been using that, and so far it's all success, though I do use the discs only to write to harddrive (as another forumite have mentioned above), so I can't testify to long-term-read usage. Still, I'd recommend going with write-to-harddrive route. Everyone have said it's faster and quieter (you'd still need to insert DVD, I guess as a security check).
"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who dont."
"lingua latina est inflatus."
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tozadog
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9. February 2010 @ 07:02 |
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Just tried some Aone + discs as mentioned earlier and they seem fine!
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