Young, Charming, Physics Postgraduate. Married with Child (Dylan, 5 yrs old).
Young, Charming, Physics Postgraduate. Married with Child (Dylan, 5 yrs old).
Member since:19.12.2004
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I've had a DVD writer since June 2004. In that time i have tried many different companies making DVD media, and for me, and the LG DVD writer i use ( i now have three of them) Verbatim make the most stable media i have come across.
I have tried the following brands: Memorex Datasafe Datawrite Imation Infiniti Ritek Ridata Panasonic TDK and Sony
Some of these were adequate, some were good, and some were downright a waste of money (Datasafe). But i have found the most stable media to be Verbatim, and that's all i will now use for DVD media.
I use them in both my computersDVD-writer and my panasonic set top box DVD recorder. My Recorder is particularly fussy, and i have lost a few films and programs in the last couple of years due to dodgy discs.
I recently worked out that i have burnt over 800 discs over the last 2.5 years (got my set top recorder in Sept 2003), and Verbatim is by far and away the most stable.
But what do i mean by stable. I mean the number of failed burn attempts, or corrupted discs due to temperature, handling etc. I have found that some discs seem very prone to failing if they are recorded to at warm temperatures, which are common if my recorder has been on all day and recording for a couple of hours. I quite often had the end of a DVD fail, in the last ten minutes of a movie, because the media would corrupt. Very annoying, but this has not happened once with verbatim media.
In my computer DVD-writer, i have around a 5% failure rate with Verbatim(which is down to about 1% since i got my new computer) whereas i had failure rates up to 30% with some of the cheaper DVD media (again Datasafe). Now media has got better over the last two years, but i still haven't found one up to the quality of Verbatim, so thats what i always recommend to everyone. It also seems to have a very good compatibility rating with most hardware.
I buy most of mine at Ebuyer, since they tend to be cheap and offer a large stock. I would suggest you buy in either 50 or 25 packs for DVD-+R or 25 or 10 packs for DVD-+RW, as this significantly increases the value for money.
I have a lot of home videos, and i wouldn't trust them to be stored on anything but Verbatim, they're too precious, that's how much i trust the media.
You can now also get printable DVD's which are compatible with a lot of todays photo printers, great for creating lasting memories.
Take it from me, a physicist, buy Verbatim and you won't be let down.
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