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From what I've read in the technical literature, there are two brands of CD/DVD media which are consistently superior; they are TDK and Verbatim. I have no particular loyalty to either and usually buy the one found first. I have had nothing but good results from either brand. I should point out that I have not used the re-writable forms of these dics but I am assuming that the quality is comparably good.
I have used about a quarter of the spindle so far and not a bad one in the bunch. Of course even if I ran across a bad one or so I would still make a good recommendation to purchase this product. I am pleased and would buy it again.
i also used memorex and magnavox also with no problem. i guess people have bad luck and good luck with these. i bought a 50 pack and all 50 worked great.i had no problem. i used over 200 discs so far with all the brands i just mentioned and only one was bad. i guess it depends on your burner and your dvd player or whatever you use to play it with
Bought a cake box of these and as some have listed this is CMC MAG AM3 media a low quality manufacturer. Why should I do their quality control. This is with a clean windows install, updated dvd firmware and fully patched burning software.
These disks are usable, but only if you burn a smaller size than full. When I contacted TDK for help they wanted me to use the full package and then send back only the bad ones. The edges of the ink on the disk are irregular and highly pitted.
I have a high level of tech knowledge (so don't blame my coasters on that). If you use at 4gb than they may work. I had a failure rate of better than 65%.
When I mentioned the pitted edges they started asking me to email pics. I'm just going to throw them out and never buy TDK again, I suggest you do the same.If your a previous user of TDK understand that they sold off their media rights to Imation, this is not the same quality media your used to using.
Also, either some of the air pillow packing had been placed between the last dvd and the bottom of the pack at the Amazon warehouse or somehow an air pillow worked itself into that spot during shipping. I don't think I have ever made a coaster with a TDK DVD-R so I use them almost exclusively. The first time this happened, the replacement was shipped the next day and arrived a day earlier than expected. However, I don't think I'll order them from Amazon again. Twice the box containing only the dvd's has arrived in pristine condition but inside, amazingly, the dvd package itself arrived open with the spindle broken right off the bottom of the package. The second time, the rep told me to wait 10 days to reorder but wouldn't give me the price I paid for it, only a $10 coupon toward my next purchase. Not that I would order again but of course the dvd's are more expensive now than when I first ordered.
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