Taiyo Yuden Recordable Media Now JVC Brand

[AlienX69]

No Isopropyl Alcohol ..... BEST thing for cleaning DVD's before extracting and removing Sharpie mistakes ..... get some .... I keep a lot on hand (70%), very inexpensive at the drug store.

[AGJ]

I don't have any Isopropyl Alcohol around the house so not able to try but I do use fine point and Ultra fine point sharpies to label them

[AlienX69]

you can see the branding right under the meritline logo

Yeah I see that now after looking more closely, all I saw originally was the Mertiline logo/watermark impossed on the image/JPG.

THX for positing the pics too.

Looks as thought I could still use a Sharpie on problem.

I use Sharpie's on the Verb DL's and they have a lot more branding. But at least it's only an etching effect.

You don't have to try, but one thing I would like to know ..... if you did apply a Sharpie pen (I use Ultra Fine, Blue) can it be removed via Isopropyl Alcohol and a soft napkin/tissue.

Sometimes I make mistakes or when I get a sequel, I will renumber the label on the first one so the backups are together in the case !!!

[AGJ]

well here are 2 pictures showing the branding of the DVD-R and the DVD+R are the same as well. Also the DVD from meritline are branded as well just click the picture image on the link you supplied and you can see the branding right under the meritline logo. I hope you can see the image ok as they pretty small due to the size limitations for here.

[AGJ]

I don't like using imageshack but I will give that freeware a try and post the 2 pics I took of the DVDs

[AlienX69]

I would upload pictures but they too big for that

Try "IrfanView", you'll be glad you did !!! IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

It can convert the images to a SMALLER size .... VERY EASY ! I use it to convert/view all my HOME digital pictures !!


And as I suggested in previous posts .... upload to to host your images so you don't have to attach them here !!

Cheers

[AGJ]

the shipping cost for the order that these came in was only $16.89 for standard shipping. I ordered 1 of each for the JVC Archival and 1 of the Premium grade I also ordered my usual TY DVD+R 8X media as well . The JVC are Branded with gold surface and I would upload pictures but they too big for that

[AlienX69]

First, Thanks for taking the time to post the info/scans could be very useful to others.

What surprises me is the cost, the 50 pcs same price as the 25 pcs. Scans are all VERY GOOD and not that far apart, why such a difference in price is odd !!

Just out of curiosity I added to cart and check the shipping cost to Nevada

$ 77.27 (what's that, 1-hour delivery ... $77 ... LOL ... )
Wednesday January 06, 2010 $ 26.53
Tuesday January 12, 2010 $ 19.23

What are you paying for shipping AGJ ? $5-10 ?

For USA customers, looks like Meritline has the best BASE price (didn't check shipping cost at each)
VD-R47HGS50

SMS $18.99 shipped (.38 ea)
Meritline 11.99 + 5.86 = $17.85 (.36 ea)

There is a BIGGER savings if you get 100 or 300 at once from SMS. It puts them in the same cost as the PREMIUM TYG02 cake boxes we all know and love !


I will be keeping my eye on these to see when they go on sale, but I'm set for quite a while.


AGJ, Is the surface of DVD-R 16X JVC-TAIYO YUDEN PREMIUM GOLD BRANDED (50 PCS) totally gold as shown on Meritline, are is there some sort of branding ? ? ?


My preference is to have a completely blank surface like the "Thermal Lacquer" discs so I can label with my sharpie:




I just bought 2 stacks of Valueline's from SMS, but the next time I need discs I will try the PREMIUM GOLD (VD-R47HGS50)


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[AGJ]

Below is the info and scan for I used a Pioneer DVR-216D SATA and burned at 12x with ImgBurn and used a Liteon IHDP118 DVD-Rom and read at 8x



Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
CSS Protected No
Media code/Manufacturer ID YUDEN000T03
Media code/Manufacturer ID YUDEN000T03
UDF Format Type V1.02
UDF Volume XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
UDF Application id *ImgBurn v2.5.0.0
UDF Implementation id ImgBurn
UDF Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 12/23/2009 10:45:31
Format Capacity 4.37GB(4.69GB)
Book Type DVD-ROM
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBp
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22F0CFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 01 0F 01 00 00 03 00 00 00 25 F0 CF .............%..
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 59 55 44 45 4E 30 30 30 54 .......YUDEN000T
00000020 30 33 00 38 23 54 37 0B 02 5A 71 02 80 6F 0F 0F 03.8#T7..Zq..o..
00000030 0A 09 02 02 00 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 00 00 00 00 00 ................

These ones look like the better choice to have

[AGJ]

Below is the info and scan for I used a Pioneer DVR-216D SATA and burned at 12x with ImgBurn but according to the info below it burned at 4x. I used a Liteon IHDP118 DVD-Rom and read at 8x



Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
CSS Protected No
Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG03
UDF Format Type V1.02
UDF Volume XXXXXXXXXXXX
UDF Application id *ImgBurn v2.5.0.0
UDF Implementation id ImgBurn
UDF Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 12/23/2009 13:55:37
Format Capacity 4.37GB(4.69GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 09
2x Write Strategy field 1 15 A9 9A 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 07
4x Speed OPC power 11
4x Write Strategy field 1 0C 10 0B 06
4x Write Strategy field 2 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 3 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 00
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 00
4x Write Strategy field 4 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 5 00 00 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 00 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22F1DFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 84 0D 11 .l...@....R.....
00000010 66 78 90 00 03 54 59 47 30 33 00 00 04 00 00 00 fx...TYG03......
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 A8 82 00 20 00 02 00 06 09 09 15 ........ .......

[AGJ]

Below is the info and scan for I used a Pioneer DVR-216D SATA and burned at 12x with ImgBurn but according to the info below it burned at 4x. I used a Liteon IHDP118 DVD-Rom and read at 8x

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG03
UDF Format Type V1.02
UDF Volume xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
UDF Application id *ImgBurn v2.5.0.0
UDF Implementation id ImgBurn
UDF Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 12/23/2009 12:59:28
Format Capacity 4.37GB(4.69GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 09
2x Write Strategy field 1 15 A9 9A 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 07
4x Speed OPC power 11
4x Write Strategy field 1 0C 10 0B 06
4x Write Strategy field 2 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 3 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 00
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 00
4x Write Strategy field 4 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 5 00 00 00 00 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 00 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22F1BFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 84 0D 11 .l...@....R.....
00000010 66 78 90 00 03 54 59 47 30 33 00 00 04 00 00 00 fx...TYG03......
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 A8 82 00 20 00 02 00 06 09 09 15 ........ .......


I will post the other 2 soon

[AlienX69]

This is a recent burn using ValueLine TYG03:

General Information
Drive: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A
Firmware: 1.Y6
Disc: DVD-R (TYG03)
Selected speed: 8 X
PI errors
Maximum: 100
Average: 22.56
Total: 401343
PI failures
Maximum: 96
Average: 0.03
Total: 4871
PO failures: n/a
Jitter: n/a
Scanning Statistics
Elapsed time: 10:12
Number of samples: 17786
Average scanning interval: 8.00 ECC
Glitches removed: 5

[AlienX69]

Interesting, if I' not mistaken or at least from what I've seen of the media codes my way. Usually when I get ValueLine TY's they are TYG03's. When I get the Premium (CakeBox's) they are usually TYG02's. But I have gotten TYG02 in ValueLine stacks on occasions.

I always burn my TY's at 8X, what speed did you burn these at (you can post that when you post he DiscSpeed images.

Also if I remember correctly (but don't trust my memory) do you post images via attachemts or do you use a hosting site like . Not sure if it's a benefit for the forum, I think ya'll have a size restriction on attachments anyway, right ?

[AGJ]

No I need a new LiteOn as mine died on me and plan to get 2 other DVD drives as well.

But for now I can tell you the Media Code for the DVDs now

are YUDEN000-T03-00

are TYG03

are TYG03

I will post the scans later as I do not have the disc scan utility installed and am doing some testing with another program at the moment

[AlienX69]

Anyone know of a free disc scan that works with LG or Pioneer drives and is Windows 7 compatible as I no longer have Nero installed. I burned 1 disc from each spindle I have and would like to do a disc scan to post here for each one

OK Well I will post the results either later today or late tonight as I need to buy a dvd drive for the test.

I'm confused, hope you're not buying a drive just to use DiscSpeed ? It should work with LG or Pioneer drives.