Advantages: Record over and over again, high quality, Compact Disadvantages: 2 play in video you need a dv casstee convertor
Mini DV tapes are great... And the best thing is you can record over them as many times as you like over and over again and you still get a high quality picture.
Well what about my experience:
Having brought a DV Camcorder I wanted to buy DV Tapes..
So rather than just buying any DV Tape I started to do my research like I normally do when I buy any of my products.
I searched online (Googling IT) for DV Tapes that where of a high quality and which had a perfect playback quality.
While searching over the net I came across a few DV Tape makes such as Fuji, DVC, Sony, Maxell & TDK
Having read reviews about the products like I normally do, I decided to go down to my local Argos store and buy TDK DVM-60 MiniDV Tapes for £7.99. I was expecting to buy just 1 for that price but I got 2 for that price. What a bargin!
Now to my ...
Advantages: will work on all cd players Disadvantages: it's not re-writable
RELIABILITY
You will always get the occasional problem when using any CDR. The occasional write error or fail. However I find that I get far less with TDK?s than I do with Verbatim?s or Mr Data?s or unbranded CDR?s.
EASE OF USE
As easy as any CDR, put it in and select the files you want to write and click the write button. Maybe not as easy as a CDRW since once it?s written the data can?t be taken off, so no second chances.
QUALITY
These are audio/consumer grade. Basically that means that they are suitable for consumer recorder units (ie. a non-pc based writer), because of these they are of a much higher quality than a standard CDR and the sound will also play back in any audio player compared to a standard CDR that will only playback in a unit supporting CDR playback.
DURABILITY
They are OK. I haven?t had any problems ...
penguin1052 21.12.2003 (06.01.2004)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of TDK CD-R 80 min
Advantages: Reputable and reliable Disadvantages: Bad colour
I paid about £20 from Adsa for the pack of 100 TDK DVD-R's (4.7Gb, 16 x speed), which I consider to be great value for a reliable, reputable make such as TDK.
I have used about half of the discs so far, mainly for films but also for backing up data, photos etc, from the PC. I have not encountered a single faulty disc, as of yet.
They seem very reliable, and have a write speed of upto 16 x, although I have not been able to test this as my DVD writer only writes at a maximum 4 x.
My only grumble with the discs is the colour. They are printed a metallic blue colour, with a pattern and the TDK logo on. While this is very nice to look at, it isn't very good for writing on with a black marker. Space (to write on the disc, not capacity) is limited because of this. ...
TDK is a major player in many of the most dynamic markets worldwide, including computers, communications and consumer electronics. Its absolute commitment to creativity means it is constantly striving to develop new exciting products. TDK uses the most advanced technologies to stand by its commitment to zero defects and uncompromising quality. PRODUCT FEATURES: Internal E-IDE/ATAPI TDK Dual DVD Writer for PC; Ultimate performance to support DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW writing; Supported 8.5GB DVD+R Double Layer disc (DVD+R DL format); Fastest-ever 16X DVD+R and 16X DVD-R writing speed; Burn a full DVD in less than 6 minutes; Exclusive DVD/CD-Recording Software Suite for PC includes (Nero 6 including Nero EXPRESS6, InCD 4, VISION EXPRESS 2, back IT up, RECODE2, SHOWTIME).
