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Are Office Depot's blank DVD's any good?
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DUBBZ
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6. January 2008 @ 14:18 |
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I usually have to rely on best Buy to get Verbatims on sale. They don't have a sale this week. I see office depot has a 100 pack spindle of their store brand on sale. Are these any good?
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6. January 2008 @ 15:48 |
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Plus or Dash format?
I don't know about the OD dash,but their Plus format +8x and +16x are very good. Ritek or Ricohjpn are their manufacturers.Even their full hub inkjet printables are riteks. I'll rate them along with Sony,all very decent media and if you get them under 20 cents each,grab em up.
They are so good,I just picked up the last 6 100 pk spindles of +16x in my closest OD. Their black friday sale,they were $18 per 100 pk tub. Sometimes they run a buy 1,get 1 free,or a buy 1,get 2 free deal.
Office Depot's brand name media is the only store brand named media that I recommend. Staple's brand,don't even bother.
OD dash format,most likely ritek media as well?
Edit: Their +RW media is also very good, Ricohjpn is their manufacturer.
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6. January 2008 @ 16:47 |
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I concur with the Dancing Booger !!! LOL !! I've been buying The Officedepot Media since The 8x days ( They were Pretty much Riteks back then G-05's & R03's I think ) Good stuff !!! Can't beat the price especially the Buy one get one sales ect.... !!! Besides if you can't trust a Dancing Booger in this world who can you trust ????????? Ciao!!!
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DUBBZ
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6. January 2008 @ 17:05 |
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Thanks for the replies. I was leaning towards dash, but if you say plus is better. I will get those.
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6. January 2008 @ 17:12 |
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DVD+R is better in a sense if your going to booktype them to DVD-Rom if your Burner allows this ! if not Then buy whichever you like best the prices are the same !
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6. January 2008 @ 17:54 |
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Best format depends on your drive. Example: Booktyping drives like benq,plextor,lg,liteon- Highly favor the plus format-booktyping purposes for higher stand alone compatability.
Other drives like pioneer,NEC, The dash format should perform better.
I still use the dash format for my Watershields and Shiny inkjet printable media,which can only be found on the web.This media in the plus format may not exist or the cost is a lot more than the dash.
Don't go to the Lima, Oh office depot store. I took their remaining stock, LOL.
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6. January 2008 @ 18:14 |
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The last OD dash disks I picked up were Riteks, very good disks in my experience, like the "Dancing green booger" and the Noble Lord of Swamp Gas" say.
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7. January 2008 @ 19:45 |
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blivetNC- Okay but don't blame all the Global warming on me ! I do have big Footprints but They've nothing to do with carbon !!!! It's a Gas ,Gas ,Gas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers blivetNC, Saugman & everyone !!!
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Amir89
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8. January 2008 @ 05:38 |
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The OfficeDepot brand actually uses some very good manufacturers most of time like Ritek and Ricoh.
Just check the Dyes with NeroDiscSpeed or ImgBurn and make sure their decent quality.
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8. January 2008 @ 08:53 |
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Last OD brand disc's i picked up were also RITEK. And on another note, i also have found buying the +R and booktyping it to DVD-ROM is the way to go if your drive allows it.
Happy burning!
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dilligaf9
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9. January 2008 @ 14:29 |
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Whats the favored burn speeds on the plus and minus OD Ritek/ Ricoh discs? 2x/4x/8x/16x
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9. January 2008 @ 14:45 |
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You're pretty safe at 4x or 6x.
Although the rule of thumb is normally half the speed of the disc.
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9. January 2008 @ 16:12 |
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With the +16x OD,no problems at 8x on my Benqs. On my Plextor,I like the 6x speed.
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9. January 2008 @ 16:29 |
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I'm still going through some of my 8x OFFICEDEPOTS Blanks and depending on the way I'm burning I'll burn them @ 8x if it's a one off copy ( one disc at a time ) and 4x if I'm doing a Simultaneous Burn ( more than 1 copy at a time ) I've mainly used the OD 8x DVD-R's ( Ritek G-05's for this so far and it has seemed to work the few times I've tried it !
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10. January 2008 @ 06:57 |
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10. January 2008 @ 11:15 |
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creaky- Words from the wise old friend ! I like your Animation/Gif ? Cheers and smooth sailing Cap'n !!!!!!!!!!!
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10. January 2008 @ 17:31 |
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I just opened up the 1st spindle of the 5 I bought sunday. This is a Ricohjpn-R03-004 spindle. 1st OD Ricoh's that I've gotten in a while. Still great media. Burning these at 8x on my old Benq 1620 and no problemo.
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