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After the catastrophic failure of my 400-disc collection of Ritek G05s, I placed an order for 200 TYG02s. WOW! For those of you who have never purchased TY media, let me paint a picture... Ordering TY media is like buying a $30,000+ car instead of a $15,000 car. I have always ordered from supermediastore and have received my dvd-r media in cake boxes or tape-wrapped in a box with packing peanuts. When I opened the box of TY media, I saw 4 cake boxes symetrically placed in a cafeteria-style tray with raised dividers immobilizing everything. no way were these going to get damaged in shipping. The cakeboxes were MUCH nicer than any I'd seen previously. Better plastic and a very sturdy locking mechanism on the base. It will NEVER open unintentionally. The discs of course are of a very high quality, with no blemishes on either side of the disc. They do exhibit the "lumpy" edges that many dvds have. This freaked me out the first time I encountered it, but I have never found it to be a problem.
I popped the first disc in to my new Benq 1655 and tested it out. Burn went smoothly as expected. Inspected the disc and it looked great. Popped it back in and promptly pinched it in the drive door (DOH!). No sign of any scratch at all, so I guess that speaks a little to the durability of the media. Ran DVDinfo and freaked out a little when the first test self-cancelled. I don't know what went wrong, but I don't think it was media related. Restarted the test and...WOAH! Quality Rating of 99.02%!!! I'm not posting a pic of the test only because there are already a million of them on these boards, but if someone wants it I will.
Very impressive. I guess sooner or later we all come around to TY. I just wish I hadn't had to learn this lesson the hard way!
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