DVD-R MEdia Info U need to no!!

[DVD-R_Master]

Reliable Media - RITEK
Verbatim
Pioneer
Datasafe

Poor Media - Bulkpaq
Prodisc
CMC Unbranded
Optodisc Unbranded

Poor media causes perfectly good back-ups to playback with pixalation, freezing and stops.

[guilhas]

RITEK are best.

[nwg]

I agree on your list but, I had excellent results from Optodisc dsics (particularly their +RW's). The same for CMC Memorex +RW's. My Memorex +R's are by Ricoh (my favourite).

I had some Prodisc Datawrites and they froze on most of my players,

You can add Princo to the bad list as well.

[ClydeValley]

Maxell +RW and Infiniti +RW are excellent. In fact, any branded media will be good.

BulqPaq are a severe bag of **** though

[Infinty1984]

Verbatim are the best.

[madd1steve]

for the good the bad & the ugly

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

your right about those princo's they're crap played back up many times with out proplems, now finding they are braking down after a couple of months pixleization skips & freezes & thats if they play.

[tack]

taiyo yuden, without a doubt are the best dvd-r's ive ever used.
i started a long time ago with shintaro(now coffee coasters) then princo, then ritec, now these japanese made babies are the best.
they are 4*, and sold printed at that, but are rated at 8* and can burn to 12*.
between me and my friend we have used some 1000 disks with no disk error's.the pioneer 107d with updated firmware burns them 4.35 gigs at 8 mins 20 seconds @.
there just hard to get at the moment, but only 2 bucks @ and coming down.
tack

[Junkie_ball]

I bought a pack of 25 Bulkpaq dvd-r when i first started at this game and as you say found them to be very poor quality although i now use ritek grade A media the bulkpaq was good enough to use as long as you don't burn the disk to compasity (the outer edge).

[dixie]

I use only princo as the others are just too expensive here. I hav had no problems but only used about 300 so far

[Weezhard]

Originally posted by nwg
You can add Princo to the bad list as well.

I had real problems using -Princo with a Sony DW-U10A, most often failing on writing the lead in track

[sfheath]

First four Princos off the drum wouldn't even register as media in my NEC1300A despite four firmwares.
AN-31's were beginning to have write faults (block 16 in TMPGEnc DVD Author).
Next drum of white tops, bought together with the AN-31 turns out to be INFOSMART1! ... burning better now I'm leaving the side off the computer.
Going to order some Riteks today.

[4kaz]

When I first got my DVD burner (LG GSA-4040B), I couldn't resist the great deal on the Memorex DVD-R's & DVD-RW's...only made coasters...gave up after about 5 or 6 disks. Did my 'homework', took the Memorex disks back to the store (they have a great return policy), and bought myself Maxell DVD-R's & DVD-RW's. So far so good...not one coaster in about 15. At first I would always burn onto DVD-RW first to test, but now I'm getting quite lazy and burn directly to DVD-R in most cases...PERFECT every time (so far..fingers crossed!).