Best quality BD-R Blanks?

[SuperFist]

the Optical Quantum Glossy BD-R DL white inkjet printable. The 10 pack for $25.17 is a very good recording media & white inkjet printable. The blanks are not glossy and will take an extra several minute to dry. Forget about the watershield glossy effect of the Taiyo Yuden but a good 50 gb blank.

My PC & printer have completed over 50 copies without a coaster.

AMAZON.COM USA

I just now read what you posted... that was quite a deal for 50GB discs! Wow... I just bought the same kind for around $38. I haven't made backups to a disc in quite some time due to my AIOS media player but I was having a few minor playback hiccups with The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Extended Edition so I had to.

[CBR929]

To all
I have deleted some posts, this thread is about BD-R discs, please keep all posts on topic, there are many threads about media players.
CBR929

[SuperFist]

Optical Quantum 2 years and running now with no problems whatsoever!

[MERX2006]

amazon.com 50gb $25.17 10 pack

the Optical Quantum Glossy BD-R DL white inkjet printable. The 10 pack for $25.17 is a very good recording media & white inkjet printable. The blanks are not glossy and will take an extra several minute to dry. Forget about the watershield glossy effect of the Taiyo Yuden but a good 50 gb blank.

My PC & printer have completed over 50 copies without a coaster.

AMAZON.COM USA

[Jerrinfla]

Not so thrilled with Optical Quantum

I thought they were the cat's meow for quite a few spindles, but I just cracked open a spindle of fifty and found a disk that was not even recognized as media.
Examining the writing surface of the disk made it obvious as to why it wasn't recognized. There were a few bubbles easily visible on the surface itself. Like it would look if a drop of crazy glue was deposited on the surface and allowed to dry. These didn't clean off, and close examination made it obvious that the bubble looking defects occurred during the manufacturing process.
Good luck to you with your OP disks. Nero also identified mine as Phillips.
This really saddens me. It seems like manufacturers make great disk for a bit and then chisel too much $ from their bottom line and stick you with garbage.
Currently I'm using:
Memorex for CDR
Verbatim for DVD 5
Memorex for BD 25
with no issues. But I'm always doing so with my fingers crossed. lol

Verbatim is the only brand that has maintained consistancy for me in DVD 5, though they did introduce some cheaper DVD 5 that did not work well for me at all, though the ones with azo dyes were always perfect.

Memorex always made CDs that were absolutely outstanding for me, and their Blu-Ray 25s have not given me any trouble whatsoever.

[Rich86]

Obviously, disk life can pertain to how you store them also. Never any issues with OQ's. I tried Ritek about 2.5 years ago. Ended up throwing them away. Don't have enough friends to use all the coasters I made with them....

That's unfortunate. Of course it could have been a bad run of media, bad burner, poor software, the critter at the keyboard, etc. Many of us do just fine with Ritek media. My Ritek BD-R media has been 100% reliable using a Lite-On burner & Imgburn.

[dcc1048]

Obviously, disk life can pertain to how you store them also. Never any issues with OQ's. I tried Ritek about 2.5 years ago. Ended up throwing them away. Don't have enough friends to use all the coasters I made with them....

[Rich86]

Good info. Since I'm new to Blu- ray this is an excellent comment you have made. I know there is a sticky about disc life in this forum. I would love to know if Dcc1048 or any other member has had extended disc life or short life from the Optical Quantum's. I know I will be very upset to put these movies in a year from now to have my player(s) not read them.....

Ritek gets bashed constantly in here because of a bad run of DVD-R media released a fair number of years ago. Most other manufacturers have put out defective product at one time or other as well, including Verbatim. But bashing Ritek and pushing media players seems to be a favorite pastime in these forums.
My personal experience is that Ritek BD-R media has been excellent (100% burning reliability and 100% playback reliability over a number of years). And I actually use them . . a lot! But, to each his own.

[dcc1048]

Good info. Since I'm new to Blu- ray this is an excellent comment you have made. I kn

NOPE----Like I said previously, no issues... and I have re-watched movies tghat I copied 2 years ago..

[chaostoday]

This is the Disc info I received from Nero DiscSpeed:
Nero DiscSpeed: Disc Info
Basic Information
Disc type: : BD-R
MID : LGEBRAS06 (000)
Write speeds: : 4 X - 6 X - 8 X - 10 X - 12 X
Blank Capacity : 22.56 GB
: 23098 MB
: 24220008448 bytes
Extended Information
Layers : 1
Disc Status : Empty
Raw Data
Physical Format Information (00h)
0000 - 44 49 01 20 00 00 62 00 42 44 52 01 12 01 00 00 - DI....b.BDR.....
0010 - 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 19 4E 7E - ..............N~
0020 - 01 EC 64 64 28 28 28 28 1E 1E 1E 1E 00 00 00 00 - ..dd((((........
0030 - 58 75 6C 04 04 36 1E 89 70 F8 F8 F8 F8 F0 F0 F0 - Xul..6..p.......
0040 - F0 00 00 00 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 - .....@.@.@.@.@.@
0050 - 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 60 60 B0 - .@.@.@.@.@.@.``.
0060 - B8 B4 00 00 4C 47 45 42 52 41 53 30 36 00 00 00 - ....LGEBRAS06...

ImgBurn basically tells the same story with less detail.
Anybody know anything about these disc's? If you look at my Post #6 I mentioned that these disc's have received some new feedback and that they have changed. It appears they have. Is this a good change or a bad one??

[chaostoday]

Hi chaostoday
You might find this thread helpful
CBR929

Thanks CBR929! You always come through. This is the thread I mentioned in post #28. I just needed to read through it completely as I have now. Real good info on the OQ disc's. I have some info on the new ones I'm using from Newegg. Imgburn shows them as LGEBRA-S06-000
This is the OQBDR06LT-25. UPC 842378003746 from Newegg

[CBR929]

Hi chaostoday
You might find this thread helpful
CBR929

[chaostoday]

I have to say in my experience Ritek is a good overall brand that is useable anywhere really problem with them they don't hold the info for very long. After a year for some reason it can't read the discs. Now Verbatim on the other hand is a very very good quality disc. It not only burns and has no burn failures with them but they also hold the info for a very long time. I've had some for over 5 years now without ever missing any info. Hope this helps.

Good info. Since I'm new to Blu- ray this is an excellent comment you have made. I know there is a sticky about disc life in this forum. I would love to know if Dcc1048 or any other member has had extended disc life or short life from the Optical Quantum's. I know I will be very upset to put these movies in a year from now to have my player(s) not read them.....

[chaostoday]

chaostoday,
I'm throwin' in with the votes for Verbatim. Used a lot of these discs over the years in LG, Sony, Pioneer and Brand X burners, with more than acceptable fail rates. Any failure is an expensive thing, but there is a rate that most people can accept. If you're interested, Amazon has verbatim inkjet-writable 50gb 4x discs in a 50-disc spindle for $143. Less than $3 a disc, who knew??? I remember spending $12 for one (when they finally came down to a price that wasn't pornographic).

Thanks trashmon. I love verbatim but will stick with the less expensive 25GB Optical Quantum disc's while they work. 50gb disc's are still a little too rich for my blood. Not to mention time consuming to burn. Compression is fine for my Back-ups right now. Just trying to keep the kids from destroying my good originals

[babyboy]

I have to say in my experience Ritek is a good overall brand that is useable anywhere really problem with them they don't hold the info for very long. After a year for some reason it can't read the discs. Now Verbatim on the other hand is a very very good quality disc. It not only burns and has no burn failures with them but they also hold the info for a very long time. I've had some for over 5 years now without ever missing any info. Hope this helps.