Wanting BD-R media w/ Silver or Blank Top

[Hawkgirl70]

Just tried out my Verbatim BD-R's yesterday.

Both jobs worked perfectly.

However, I like to label my media with my Neato Glossy labels.

These Verbatim's are lousy top's as it's White with Blue Verbatim imprints on a coating. Blech!!!!

You can't add a label to these.

What do you guys use that burn to BR media?

Are there any good reliable quality Blu Ray discs out there with a blank top or silver shiny.

Thanks,

Kathy

[ゲゲゲの鬼太郎]

The best disks you can purchase for your money are manufactured by Taiyo Yuden which is a Japanese company.

This Wikipedia page has some information under "history" and "Recording Media"


Last I knew, there are only a very small group of companies which manufacture Recordable Optical Media. Then what happens is the media is often times sold in auction lots to other corporations which then Re-brands them with their own Brand. (do they still do it by auction?)

As for Taiyo Yuden disks, the Wikipedia article mentions there are some companies out there which have been illegally using Taiyo Yuden media Codes on their disks to make buyers think that their disks are the real deal. But you'll pay for it in lost data when the dye layer starts to break down in 8 months (+/-) or so.

IMGburn can read the media codes from the disks to identify the manufacture.

Here are a couple of older programs which do the same. Don't recall which program I used to use.

DISCInfo from 2006 seems to be familiar. There is no installation needed and no registry entries either.

Another one is DVD Identifier with the later version being from 2009 including BlueRay support.

You're probably best off getting yourself a good inkjet printer which can print the labels directly on the disks. This way you eliminate the hassle of trying to center the label on the disks, you eliminate any vibrations which may be caused by the label being off center which in some cases can lead to a cracked or shattered disk in your drive. You also eliminate the possibility of read errors caused by the label itself which have been known to happen after the label has been on a while.

As it is, hard drives are cheap enough now that I just copy everything I want to save to hard drive. I've currently got about 10 TBs of Japanese Anime and I've got more on disk which hasn't been copied yet. Now I'm contemplating redoing my entire collection from DVD rips to .Mkv to save space.

[GregiBoy]

I will warn against using labels also.

I have seen too many problems with them and have seen pieces of labels come off inside the player and destroy it.

I totally agree with the hard disk scenario above but at least buy an inkjet printer that will print directly to the matte white disks.

[Hawkgirl70]

Thank you for the replies.

I think I'll start a new thread on Inkjet printers.

I'm thinking its time to do some online shopping for myself this weekend.

[BERT]

kathysvideos13 ,Use inkjet discs and a suitable printer..to print labels of course to go with it.That's what I do since years.All my copied discs have a "picture and title" on it. All you do is..place the original disc in the printer ..start copy and it will tell you the next steps when and how to place the inkjet disc you just copied in the printer.Have fun.

[Whale2]

Optical Quantum 25GB BD-R only $21 for 50 disks

Just tried out my Verbatim BD-R's yesterday.

Both jobs worked perfectly.

However, I like to label my media with my Neato Glossy labels.

These Verbatim's are lousy top's as it's White with Blue Verbatim imprints on a coating. Blech!!!!

You can't add a label to these.

What do you guys use that burn to BR media?

Are there any good reliable quality Blu Ray discs out there with a blank top or silver shiny.

Thanks,

Kathy

Check out these:



They are marked 4X but seem to record fine at 6X for me. Any other 4X would be used at 2X for recording. They are silver colored too.

Be sure to use promo code as the disks are $30 and the code yields a $9 discount.
"+ $9 off w/ promo code EMCWVXR39, ends 12/11"

[Whale2]

Another Discount if you order before midnight tonight



This is 10% off if it stacks with the $9 discount code.

I am a long time fan of these disks.

[ゲゲゲの鬼太郎]

Check out these:



They are marked 4X but seem to record fine at 6X for me. Any other 4X would be used at 2X for recording. They are silver colored too.

Be sure to use promo code as the disks are $30 and the code yields a $9 discount.
"+ $9 off w/ promo code EMCWVXR39, ends 12/11"

I just checked the reviews out on this one and for the most part, the reviews appear to be positive,

BUT.......

There is one review in particular which you should really pay attention to.
The review posted by Bluesky5553 on 11/4/2013 12:44:29 PM

Apparently these disks are manufactured Moser Baer India, Ltd and the dye layer breaks down fairly quickly. This means that you will loose your data fairly quickly using these disks as all the ones become zeros.

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Always do a thorough check of the reviews when purchasing something and when you need disks for something you don't want to loose, always check the use a program which can read the Media Code on the blank disks to tell you who the manufacturer is, along with other information such as dye type, speed rating, secondary company (re-branded name) and any other information you might be interested in.

[Hawkgirl70]

Check out these:



They are marked 4X but seem to record fine at 6X for me. Any other 4X would be used at 2X for recording. They are silver colored too.

Be sure to use promo code as the disks are $30 and the code yields a $9 discount.
"+ $9 off w/ promo code EMCWVXR39, ends 12/11"

Heading over there to check it out now.

Thanks friend!

Kathy

[Hawkgirl70]

This is 10% off if it stacks with the $9 discount code.

I am a long time fan of these disks.

Whale, Question?

Are they pretty good media? Any coasters? I have often used lesser known DVD media for my customers in my production company with no complaints.

[signals]

I have had good luck with the Optical Quantum also, but I don't burn to blank discs much anymore.

[ゲゲゲの鬼太郎]

Kathy,

Check out my above reply, I would not recommend these disks if you value your data.

The manufactured Moser Baer India, Ltd

Look for disks manufactured by Taiyo Yuden

Many disks are Re-Branded under other names such as Sony, Panasonic Ect, Etc......

[Whale2]

Whale, Question?

Are they pretty good media? Any coasters? I have often used lesser known DVD media for my customers in my production company with no complaints.

No coasters, and and have been using them for years. They perform better than Verbatim for me and burn at higher than marked speeds. I have been using them for years without any problems. Please look back at my previous posts about them.

[ゲゲゲの鬼太郎]

Whale2,

It's not whether they burn good or not.

The trick is this....is the disk still going to be good a year or two down the road without any read errors?

That's the difference between good media and bad media. I've got disks which are up to 10 or more years old with absolutely no read errors.

If you've ever seen an old record, you'll have noticed all the grooves in the disk. Well, CD's DVD's and BlueRay's are basically the same way with one major difference.

The difference is in these grooves is a bunch of pits. Now it's been awhile since I've read the material on this and since I've last explained this to anyone. But basically when you're burning to the disk, where ever there is a "1" the dye in that pit turns dark. Where there is a "0" the dye in that pit remains untouched"

If you have poor quality media, the dye layer can begin to break down in as little as 8 months or more. This process takes time though. But what happens is the "1's" start turning into "0's" hence the disk becomes corrupted.

So say you have a bunch of files backed up to a disk and you use windows explorer to view them, you may be able to view them still and you may even be able to load and run some of the files, but if you try to load or run any files which are in corrupt sectors of the disk, you'll find your system locking up on you.

With video, you'll just find that either parts of the video will be unplayable or the entire video won't play at all.

This is why it's important to use Quality media.

[glenns]

To add a little to that the slower you burn the deeper or more pronounced the 1 and 0's are and more different kinds of drives can read such disks that's why burning at half the rated disk speed produces the least errors or read problems on a wide base of drives and players.

Also some professional disk burner programs can adjust laser power to disk media in the drive such as img burn if set up in settings that way.