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[CBR929]

All I can tell you is best of luck pal. Coincidently I tried to play a backup this morning that I made two or three years ago on a store brand cheap disk. It would no longer play, so now I have to dig out the original and make a new backup. These cheap store brand disk will copy, but the archive life is the potential problem. The new backup will be on a Taiyo Yuden!

I will second that...
I also this weekend was watching Transformers 1 with my son which was on a cheap disk Manufacturer ID: CMC MAG. AM3, and I too had to make another one, but this time on a Verbatim disc.
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[90312]

I use DVD-R in any brand that is on sale. I pay between $10 and $13 U.S for a 50pk and $20 to $24 U.S for 100pk. I'm in the U.S and where I live I can find them on sale for those prices pretty much anytime. I shop Bestbuy, Radioshack, and Office Depot. Walmart and Target never place them on sale. They are on sale in at least one of those places every week. I also burn at 16x without any problems. Though I have ran across bad discs before. So yeah, I never pay full price for my DVD Blank Media. I also find that the "Dash R" Media is more compatible in my experience though it shouldn't be an issue with newer dvd players.

All I can tell you is best of luck pal. Coincidently I tried to play a backup this morning that I made two or three years ago on a store brand cheap disk. It would no longer play, so now I have to dig out the original and make a new backup. These cheap store brand disk will copy, but the archive life is the potential problem. The new backup will be on a Taiyo Yuden!

[jlo138]

DVD-R 4.7gb Blank Media User

I use DVD-R in any brand that is on sale. I pay between $10 and $13 U.S for a 50pk and $20 to $24 U.S for 100pk. I'm in the U.S and where I live I can find them on sale for those prices pretty much anytime. I shop Bestbuy, Radioshack, and Office Depot. Walmart and Target never place them on sale. They are on sale in at least one of those places every week. I also burn at 16x without any problems. Though I have ran across bad discs before. So yeah, I never pay full price for my DVD Blank Media. I also find that the "Dash R" Media is more compatible in my experience though it shouldn't be an issue with newer dvd players.

[btufail]

has anyone tried any of these BD-R DL 50gb from japan?
http://cgi.ebay.com/10-TDK-bluray-50...#ht_2335wt_802
http://cgi.ebay.com/10-Mitsubishi-Ve...#ht_1970wt_800
http://cgi.ebay.com/10-sony-blu-ray-...#ht_1790wt_802
I bought some verbatim BD-R 50 from amazon. Burned 4 of them with no problems yet!

[Racem22]

Yeah these Optical Quantums seem like they're alright. I haven't had a bad burn yet with them, but I really haven't had them long enough to check their longevity. In the next 6 months to a year, I'll check a few with Nero DiscSpeed and see how they're doing. They're definitely better than the first couple batches of discs I bought, which were the MID RITEK-BR2-00 that failed after 5 months.

[W&B]

W&B: I too buy the Optical Quantum OQBDR04LT packs with MID PHILIP-R04-00, and I also noticed the bottom discs were getting stuck on the plastic insert, which kind of sucks if you're buying ten packs and getting one DOA disc out of each pack, so I switched to the 25 packs to minimize on the bad ones. I was still getting the bad disc at the bottom on those too, but 1 out of 25 isn't quite as bad.

Hi Racem22, Yeah it sucks they stick but I still came out with 3 extra disc so far compared to purchasing the 25-PK spindles at Newegg for the same price. (actually I just happen to be an UNlucky sole that has a Newegg warehouse in the same state and I have to pay sales tax with them so I try to avoid the egg when possible).
I've burned 5 more of these BD-R blanks (with ImgBurn), the latest burn was of a full disc backup of "Predators" (Fab Ver.8024) and all have played great in my PS3.

[Racem22]

W&B: I too buy the Optical Quantum OQBDR04LT packs with MID PHILIP-R04-00, and I also noticed the bottom discs were getting stuck on the plastic insert, which kind of sucks if you're buying ten packs and getting one DOA disc out of each pack, so I switched to the 25 packs to minimize on the bad ones. I was still getting the bad disc at the bottom on those too, but 1 out of 25 isn't quite as bad.

[btufail]

verbatims DL on sale
http://dealspl.us/product/verbatim-8...sc-model-96577

[W&B]

Optical Quantum OQBDR04LT-10 25GB 4X BD-R Logo Top 10 PK $9.99 per spindle http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch...etitle=Optical Free shipping also.

The MID on these BD-R blanks is PHILIP-R04-00 I bought 3 of these and 2 of the 3 spindles, the bottom disc in the stack was STUCK to the clear plastic disc insert and had to literally peel it from the last blank. Both failed to burn but tried 2 more and they burned and played back fine in my PS3. If anyone buys these be sure to check the last disc before placing in burner!!
Oh well they're not verbs but for the price...just thought I'd report that

[W&B]

Optical Quantum OQBDR04LT-10 25GB 4X BD-R Logo Top 10 PK $9.99 per spindle http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch...etitle=Optical Free shipping also.

[sireast]

dvd media - verbatim

newegg.com is having a sale on Verbatim 4.7GB 16X DVD-R 100 Packs Disc, Model 95102, for $19.99 and free shipping.
Promo codes expire at 11:59pm PT on 10/13/2010.

if anyone is interested.


Thanks, moving this post to the blank media thread

[refreshen]

Verbatim +R

search for 023942948650 to find the AZO dye / DigitalMovie 8x 4.7GB/120 Minute DVD+R Disc 25-Pack Spindle at $5.99 for 25 pack. I use these and have for at least 2 years with excellent results.

[Jimbo]

The cheapest, remember you get what you pay for and down the road all you will have is coasters

[SiNiSTER]

well i use windata they work with the lg blu ray burner cheapest i found. in the US. $9.99 for 10 pack spindle

[CBR929]

Mine as indicated by the MID, are +R, that is what was advertised in the link you posted. Did you order something different?

Yes, sorry 90312 I ordered the -R but posted the +R, as that is what you posted from Tiger but were not the AZO Dye ones in case someone was interested in the +R sorry for the confusion forgot to mention that I bought the -R when I posted when I bought them
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