Memorex DVD+R 16x 4.7GB 100 Pack Spindle
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Customer Review: My recordable media of choice
Summary: 5 Stars
I burn a lot of DVDs - 3 or 4 per day lately - so I'm looking for quality and value when it comes time to buy more. That's why I love these Memorex DVD+R 100 packs. For me, Memorex and Sony have always stood apart, but I'm not giving any of my money to a company (Sony) that secretly installed root kit software with their music CDs. Besides, I've never had a problem with a single Memorex DVD (DVD-R or DVD+R) - and, while I've only burned a few on my DVD recorder, I've burned at least a couple hundred on my computer. I started out transferring long videos from my hard drive to individual discs; although those played fine on my standard DVD player as well as computer, I soon realized it was much too costly. Since I only rarely use my standalone DVD player anymore, I'm much happier filling as much as possible of the 4.7 GB of available space on each DVD+R. That means I can only watch those videos on a computer, but that's fine with me. It will be a different story, of course, when I finally get around to using my DVD recorder to transfer some of my old VHS tapes to DVD. There, you're looking at only 2 real-time hours of recording if you want the best quality transfer possible, although you can go up to four or six hours if video quality isn't a priority.
You don't burn anything to DVD without a reason, so you don't want to go out and buy the cheapest discs you can find. There's no good reason to pay too much, either, especially when you have these perfectly good Memorex DVD+R discs available in bulk for a pretty decent price.
Customer Review: Why Pay More!?
Summary: 5 Stars
Listen to Michael Brumley, he knows his stuff. This DVD burning isn't as cut and dried as some would like you to believe. However, just because you get a bad burn doesn't mean it is the discs. There is a whole bunch of stuff going on in your computer that can affect the burn.
I have a Dell 1.2 ghz, with a Lite-On 8x drive, running Nero 6 OEM. Pretty generic, but these Memorex 8x and now 16x discs burn just fine. In fact, I have burnt about 600-800 of these discs and have had very few fall-outs. Not enough to justify buying the "better" quality discs.
Now for the caveat: I did have one spate of problems, caused by a not so well behaved antivirus program. I tossed out the antivirus program and went over to Avast!(it's free, check with Microsoft). Problem solved even though I run Winamp and a logging environmental sampling program while burning discs.
We burn hundreds of discs for a hospital lecture series. They are being played on all sorts of equipment, including some pretty banged up junk. So far I have not received one complaint about the discs only suggestions about the content.
Michael Brumley is right! Before you spend big bucks on some "better" disc, pop up your task manager in XP and see if there is some runaway task that needs some discipline. Also, if you must run "better" discs then do a surface test in Nero. I bet the "better" disc will look very close to failure if the Memorex failed.
Customer Review: Nice improvement in redesign of discs
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always been sceptical of low reviews based failure rate. I've used Memorex discs on three or four occasions (by that, I mean that I've purchased three or four 100 Pack Spindles -- I buy what is cheapest either on Amazon or at my local Staples). I have found none of the problems with failure that some other reviewers have noted. I am not saying that they haven't had those problems. I can only assert that I have not had the same experience.
I have, however, had some complaints with Memorex discs in the past. I do not bother to make labels for the discs that I burn -- I don't want to spend the money either on the printer ink or for labels. I write on the discs using DVD markers. Until recently Memorex's discs were all silver, but covered with a number of irritating dots. You could write over them, but the surfaces weren't as marker-friendly as other discs, like those made by TDK or Sony. So, my only complaint against Memorex has disappeared.
This may, however, only be academic. Amazon is now producing its own brand of blank DVDs. I've been extremely happy with both the DVD+R and DVD-R discs that Amazon now makes. And their prices so far have been below $20 for a 100 Pack Spindle. If Amazon maintains those prices I'm unlikely to buy anything other than Amazon discs in the future. But if Amazon raises its prices and if Memorex puts its disc on sale, I would definitely feel comfortable buying them in the future.
Customer Review: Still solid after 5 years ...
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using this brand exclusively for the past five years. The look of the packaging has occasionally changed as well as the label and to be honest I don't know who manufactures these or where. I do know that I have successfully burned over 2000 discs. This is the first review I have written on these and ironically it comes right after the first issues I have EVER had burning. About halfway through the last spindle the disc's started failing to burn .. but retrying with a second disc worked every single time. After spending far too much time googling, updating software and firmware the fix was simply to manually set the burning speed to 4x instead of allowing it to self detect the max speed. Seriously - burning at 4x takes less than 5 minutes more than at 16x for a 4.7gb burn so it was not a big deal. After setting the speed to 4x every burn was successful. As for those reviews that say they burned a disc and then the disc was skipping during playback - I assume they mean video playback and in my opinion the skipping is probably an encoding issue and not a media issue. Like I stated before, I have burned over 2000 discs in the past 5 years and have less than a dozen coasters so it isn't rocket science.Customer Review: The best of breed among DVD+R's
Summary: 5 Stars
I've gone through the recording of roughly 300 DVD's over the last three years, some for backing up the contents of computers, many more for very old films that will never be on DVD. I've tried several brands and I say you can't beat Memorex DVD+R as far as quality versus price. I'd say out of each 100 pack I've had, 2 DVD's burn with errors. None of those happened when backing up from a computer. All of them came from recording from a DVR, so for all I know it could be my DVR that was the source of error. The quality of the DVD+R in the case of film recording appears to be perfect. The oldest DVD's in my collection still play in my pickiest DVD player after three years.
I will warn anyone who is recording filmed media to stay away from DVD-R's of any brand. In the beginning I was going with DVD-R just because it was cheap and I paid for it in artifacting that often appeared in the finished product.