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Saturday, 31 December 2005 |
Those cheap blank DVDs you bought at the market may end up costing you more in the long run - what good is a DVD that produces coasters 25% of the time, and why bother writing your precious data to a disk if you can't read from it a year later.
| Premium List |
| Taiyo Yuden * |
Sony |
Ricoh ** |
Verbatim *** |
Panasonic **** |
| * |
Plextor, Miflop Xtreme
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| ** |
DVD+R versions only
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| *** |
It depends who manufactured this for Verbatim. Look for made in Japan
on the spindle or DVD case for the best stuff in the 8x range
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| **** |
again look for Made In Japan on the packaging |
| Recommended List: |
| Traxdata * |
Ridata |
Ridisc Xtreme |
HP |
Ricoh ** |
| Infiniti |
Philips |
TDK |
BeAll |
BenQ |
| Fujifilm |
Imation |
Samsung |
Optodisc |
Thats Write |
| 3A Media |
4M Media |
Piodata |
ToPrint |
Emtec |
| Daxon |
Mitsui |
Maxell |
MAM-E |
MAM-A |
| * |
always uses Ritek A grade dyes - it's as good as Ritek media gets
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| ** |
DVD-R versions only |
| Budget List: |
| Memorex |
Ridisc |
Bulkpaq |
Tuffdisc |
Datasafe |
| eProformance |
Datawrite |
Primeon |
Arita |
Prodisc * |
| Rivision |
Platinum |
Freespace |
Intenso |
Tevion |
| Maxdisc |
Prime |
Playo |
Moviestyle |
Value Disc |
| New Star Digital |
Sky |
Princo |
Octron |
Generic 'no name' media |
| * |
Some may say its Recommeded media and not Budget media - it really does depend on your batch. |
| Landfill List: |
| Dataon |
Hyundai |
Primeon |
BlueStar Pro |
AML |
| Infosmart |
Mirror |
Gigatain |
Vanguard |
Taken from CDR-Zone |