Interesting

[blutach]

Verbatims have been upgraded above TYs at digitalfaq and is now effectively "top of the heap" since PVC is not made anymore.

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

Regards

[Chewy]

the polls over at cdfreaks have TY over mcc by a 3 or 4 to one margin

[blutach]

I'd probably agree, but I wonder why digitalfaq did this. They test tens of thousands of blanks.

Regards

[Chewy]

They test tens of thousands of blanks.

are you sure, they went forever without updating their web page and have never answered my emails with corrections?

several of the voters over at cdfreak keep over 1000 disks in their inventory(blanks)

we only have 1 member that dedicated

verbatim's singapore plant is unrivaled but they only make dual layer there

outsourcing to prodisk, cmc mag and MBI has made their single layer inconsistent

[Chewy]

I have only burned 5-600 TYG's and have a 100% success rate(w/high quality scores)

[blutach]

They make a point of saying the page won't update often as quality doesn't change that quickly.

Regards

[Chewy]

The consensus of opinion is quality for premium single layer is going to heck in a handbasket, that's why those in the know with the resources are buying up premium media, yes night I am talking about you!

It happened to the ritek R03's.

[blutach]

The burns I did on the R03s were and still are tremendous. Since then, R03s have gone downhill, so it seems and I'm with MCC003.

Regards

[jm1647]

And the burns vary from same make\model burner\fw\media combos let alone from different burners. R03's went down CMC's went up for some people. I had good burns with the CMC when others weren't

Totally dependent upon burner\fw\media combination or maybe the luck of the draw, I dunno. Scans are for comparing burns, some burners will read a DVD better than others. Some burn better.

The accelerated test being done as Chewy mentioned for burnt media will be the final bible about it. And then it will only be for the specific media they tested. People have mentioned variances between media on the same spindle let alone from a different batch.

[NightTran]

they may compare the TYG03 and MCC003 and 004

[Chewy]

they may compare the TYG03 and MCC003 and 004

let me finish that

but not the TYG01,2 or Yuden T02

tyg01,2 and yuden t02 are better on average than any sl verbatim mid

jm, that pretty well says it all

[smkymntgrl]

I've mostly used Verbatims, before reading this forum I pretty much bought whatever was on sale. I occasionally have bought some "really cheap" Playos just because a 50 pack was under 3$. They have suprisingly been fairly good. I have never ran them through I've never used Ty or Yuden so I can't comparet them to Verbatims but I have had excellent results with the Verbatims.

I've never done a disc quality scan on any of my backups. Guess I'll have to do that with some and post them. Then maybe someone can tell me if it's good or not as I have no idea how to read the scans.

[Chewy]

smoky,

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=65716

there is a need for verbatim scans, we have a few that are ok, some not so good

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=66993

[jamoskeag3]

Smoky,
i also have had great luck with my verbatims, which are often on sale at Best Buy for about 30 cents per disk. If I dont care too much, i use TDK's, which i can get for 20 cents/disk.

[smkymntgrl]

smoky,

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=65716

there is a need for verbatim scans, we have a few that are ok, some not so good

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=66993

So is the scan supposed to be done on a blank dvd or an already backed up dvd?

In the settings what burn speed is supposed to be set? The one I burnt with?