Ridata DVD+R 4x 25-pack Spindle

List Price: $40.99

Features:

• 25 recordable DVD+R 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)
• Very low recording error rate and low jitter; long archival and storage life
• Not compatible with DVD-R/RW only drives (unless otherwise noted)

Customer Reviews:

Cheap media? BenQ not a good drive? LOL [Posted on 2004-10-19]
Some of you people crack me up. I have a BenQ 8X drive that I have burned over 100 disks on so far with no problems. I use Ritek (RIDATA), Memorex (Mostly CMC a few Ricoh) and Maxell (Ricoh is all I have seen from Maxell) disks.

Before the BenQ, I had a Cyberdrive 8X that I recorded well over 400 disks on using the same brands as stated above. Both of these drives are branded and sold by KHypermedia.

You don't have to spend a lot of money for a decent drive folks. Most of what people are paying for is the name. You would be surprised to know who makes many of the "top" name drives.

The same holds true for DVD media. The majority of media is made by only a few companies. The reason that you can't use a certain disk is not because the media is bad, but because your firmware is not up to date. Some companies update their firmware faster than others so check the website and see if there is an update for your drive. Don't blame the media when it is your burner that is at fault.

I use DVD Shrink to rip and Nero 6.3.1.25 to burn. This version of Nero supposedly sets the code on your movies to ROM. So far, it has set every one I have burned with this version to ROM.

I have owned four drives so far and have not had any problems out of any of them. The first drive I had was an NEC. I sold this one after a few hundred burns and bought a Cyberdrive. I sold this one also after a few hundred burns. I now own a KHypermedia (BenQ) 8X in one computer and a MicroAdvantage (TopG - I think) 8X in another computer. They both work great because I keep them updated. when something new comes along, I sell the old drive cheap and get a new one.

So, Instead of badmouthing the media because it will not work in your drive, find a way to make it work if possible. Keep your firmware updated and ask the maker of your drive for a list of acceptable media that your drive can use. This will save you some trouble as you will know what will and what will not work with your particular drive. If you still decide to purchase media, even though it is not recommended by the manufacturer of your drive for the firmware version you have, you wil be taking a chance that it will plain out give you trouble. (...)

Not work for Philips SDVD6004 [Posted on 2004-11-15]
My DVD drive is Philips SDVD6004(firmware 1.06). The drive is installed in Dell Dimension 4600C and some inspiron notebooks. I failed in buring first 6 discs. There's no singal example of success bruing. So I give up. But other bands (HP, Khypermedia, Verbatim) work perfect for my case. Maybe only crap discs from CMC match the crap Philips burnner.

Good stuff  [Posted on 2005-01-27]
I just bought a new computer with a dvd burner built in so i wanted to try it out. I was advised to buy these first and they worked great. I've bought 2-50 packs and have only messed up about 1 disc from each pack. So that seems pretty good to me. Maybe the other people who gave them bad reviews just had crappy dvd burners. The quality is great and the errors are minimal, and you cant beat the price anywhere.

Not good for Philips DVD recorder [Posted on 2005-01-31]
Too many "disc errors" when trying to use them in a Philips DVD
recorder. Most other dvd+r/rw discs worked fine.

Was good, but not anymore [Posted on 2005-03-01]
I used to buy 25-packs of these all the time with only a problem with a few of them. Just after Christmas I bought a 50-pack of them. After the first dozen, the rest wouldn't work at all in my Akai stand-alone burner, or the plextor burner on my computer. Other brands are working fine in them so it's NOT the machines or firmware. I bought a 25-pack last month because I didn't have problems with them before. About 2 out of every 3 of the 25-pack have problems with dropouts, skips, freezes, locking up the players, or didn't record at all. They definitely downgraded their quality, or are shipping out more of that "bad batch".

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