Memorex BD media failure

[Mdy4Blues]

General advice regarding Memorex BD-R, 25gb media. I have backed up several of my blu-ray discs using Memorex BD-R, 25 GB 1x-4x media and ALL of them have now failed to play in my blu-ray player or on my computer using PowerDVD 9.x after a mere 4 months!
Please beware. So far, TDK and Verbatim media have held their data and play fine.

[thisizbrian]

please beware. all my memorex bd-r 25gb media play fine after 2 years time. i play them on my ps3. just be warned!

[btufail]

please beware. all my memorex bd-r 25gb media play fine after 2 years time. i play them on my ps3. just be warned!

Well I guess you were one of the lucky ones. I've read several threads of the memorex losing data after a period of time.

[j&b]

I don't use Memorex now for the same reason. I can hardly read any data from them after a while, playing a movie from such a disc is out of the question

[RClark]

I've been using Memorex BD-R 25 for years now. I use them on my PC and standalone players and I haven't had any problems with them at all. Perhaps the problems people are having have more to do with crappy playback devices and not the media per say.

[btufail]

I've been using Memorex BD-R 25 for years now. I use them on my PC and standalone players and I haven't had any problems with them at all. Perhaps the problems people are having have more to do with crappy playback devices and not the media per say.

That's a possibility. But if it's good media shouldn't it play in all devices? You hardly ever see TDK's, sony's, and verbatims have these issues. not to say they don't. But it's rare.

[SuperFist]

I've been using Memorex BD-R 25 for years now. I use them on my PC and standalone players and I haven't had any problems with them at all. Perhaps the problems people are having have more to do with crappy playback devices and not the media per say.

Which makes me also think: couldn't it also be the BD burners? Who's to say their lasers were effective enough to retain burned information after years? This is of course unless someone also used the same device to burn media on a TDK or Verbatim from the same time period and they weren't affected. However, it could be a combination of both the media and the writer.