Ridata DVD-RW 4x 25-pack Spindle

List Price: $69.99

Features:

• 25 rewriteable DVD-RW discs on a plastic spindle with dust cover
• 4.7 GB per disc; stores up to 120 minutes of DVD-quality video
• For use with 4x speed recording (maximum); re-write up to 1,000 times
• Highly compatible--can be played in most DVD players and DVD-ROM drives after recording and finalized
• Not compatible with DVD+R/RW only drives (unless otherwise noted)

Customer Reviews:

Useless media [Posted on 2004-12-19]
I've tried using these discs in several different DVD recorders and DVD burners. Same result every time, the product is a waste of good money.

Doesn't work for Data or Video  [Posted on 2004-12-26]
I have 2 DVD writers BTC 1008 (8x DVD+-R/RW) and Maddog 4x (DVD-R/RW).
These discs were recognized only in the BTC drive, as :

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEKW04
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 411107328
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-RW
Media Type DVD-RW
Manufacturer Rated Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 2.0x 2770KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 02 D6 FD 9E D8 31 00 02 00 00 00 .l........1.....
00000010 00 00 00 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 57 00 04 30 34 00 .....RITEKW..04.
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 15 0C 05 ................

However they failed both during DVD-Video (16%) or Data burn (100%), I have the latest firmware on my writers and the BTC's website says that DVD1008 supports RITEKW04,
I had been using RiData DVD+RW discs and was very happy with their performace.
I am not sure if these failures are due to High speed incompatibility or just bad discs, if I am not able to fix it in 1-2 days I am going to return these discs, not sure what amazon's return policy is for opened media.

Junk [Posted on 2005-01-08]
Do not buy this media, Waste of money, Bought it to use with my Toshiba XS32 recorder and they do not work so I was like fine I can use them on my PC take them to my PC and mind you I have 2 different PC DVD recorders a Sony and a Toshiba and they both wont read or write to them. These things are junk, Firmware is upgraded to latest on both drives, That is not the issue. I would give 0 stars if I could, A complete waste of money.

Good quality media for certain writers [Posted on 2005-01-10]
Works well with the NEC 2510A, but not recognized at all by the Pioneer 106D.

Works fine on Plextor DVD Writer [Posted on 2005-04-08]
Works well with Plextor DVD Writer. Disc plays on all three of my computers. I use these RW discs for data backup so it is perfect for my need. Hard to beat this price.

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