I found some other sites, which I will
post up here.. The consensus is datasafe
generation3.. as your
tests have
concluded..
The unbranded ones now seem to have a
white top with a small branding on them.. (I
don’t
quite get how they’re unbranded with a branding on??) www.121cdr.co.uk has good pricing as
well.
I ordered the –rw disks from them a while
back,
and service was ok.
How was service from bigpockets??
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Don McAllister
[mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 05,
2002
3:36 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT:
dvd-r
-rw blanks..
No problems burning
with
the Ulead Movie Factory Software onto those cheap bulkpaq disks (£38 for
90).
Playback is fine on the burner but I seemed to be having a few
funnies
on my standalone player (Pioneer 525) and on the multitainers (Hitachi
GD-7000). It was as if the end of the disk was getting screwed if
filled to capacity. After doing some reading up on the net the
favourite seemed to be a compatability problem with the cheap media and the
older kit I wasplaying it back on. I ordered a selection of media
to
do some further testing and after
a
day spent mainly burning disks this is the
outcome:
I created an iso
image of
a really full disk and used this to burn each disk. All disks burnt
sucessfully
but I had varying success on playback.
All 4.7GB (General
Purpose) DVD-R priced singlely plus VAT
Datasafe branded
white
top (£0.74) - 1x speed - Excellent! All my problems both on the 525 and the
Multitainer went away. All chapters accessible and Fast forward \play
worked to
the end of the disk. I'll be putting an order in for 50 of these on
Monday!
White Label (£0.74) -
1x
speed - Wouldn't play back properly on the 525
"ICE"
WhiteTop
(£0.75) - Seems to be OK on both 525 and
Multitainer
Datasafe Media
(£0.97) -
2x speed - Problems with chapters and fast forward at the end of the
disk
Choice Branded
(£0.93) -
2x speed - Real problems on playback on both 525 and
multitainers
So it looks like the
Datasafe branded white top for me and I'll forget about 2x speed disks
for
now ! That leaves me the problem of the 80 bulkpaq disks I've got left :-(
I'll
probably keep them and use them for data backup as they burn fine and
playback
on the DVD burner OK.
Hope people find this
useful
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 August 2002
14:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT:
dvd-r
-rw blanks..
> Mark,
you
were going after the bulkpaq’s or something weren’t you? Any
opinion?
My writer
turned up damaged from Scan and I'm awaiting a replacement. I bought
the
pack of 90 blank DVD-Rs from BigPockets last Monday, and these haven't
turned
up either :(
I have
been
talking to Don McAllister who confirms the 90 pack disk will only write at
1x
speed.
Don has
done
some great test over the weekend with his Pioneer 104 writer and Pioneer
525
DVD Player (both models same as mine!).
Hopefully
Don
will post his findings here too.
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