best blank DVD to buy

[New2Holden]

I am burning photos to DVD and would appreciate your thoughts on the best blank DVD for this purpose. The reason I ask is that my parents only have a cheapy DVD player and not all disks will play in it. The disks play perfectly in my player but not in my parents. I have bought -R which I am told play in more machines as opposed to +R which give better reproduction but play in less machines. I am using NERO as my burning software. Any thoughts please?

[samuels]

I am burning photos to DVD and would appreciate your thoughts on the best blank DVD for this purpose. The reason I ask is that my parents only have a cheapy DVD player and not all disks will play in it. The disks play perfectly in my player but not in my parents. I have bought -R which I am told play in more machines as opposed to +R which give better reproduction but play in less machines. I am using NERO as my burning software. Any thoughts please?

ritek or ridata are a universal dvd disc works in just about anything,next best thing is princo.
my mothers dvd player is like what you have explained,i have found TDK works well in hers,but they can be expensive if you buy in spindles...

[pendulum]

Actually, best brand of writable media is prolly Taiyo Yuden... Just hard to find at most places...
It should work in most DVD players... but that all comes down to the firmware in the actual DVD unit

this forum is a really good place if you want info like this, and this particuluar thread has a few of the better "versions" of the discs listed, but overall all brands listed there are good

http://forums.speedlabs.org/index.php?topic=23.0

Also, if you ask I'm sure they'd be able to verify what discs should work in what player

Basically your after the brands in the "Higher Quality" section Should all work ok... but as I said earlier, it'll come down to your parents player

[BOGANV8]

I use TDK seems to be the best works in my dvd player in the house and in the car the can be a bit on the dear side but worth it for backing up files

[samuels]

Actually, best brand of writable media is prolly Taiyo Yuden... Just hard to find at most places...
It should work in most DVD players... but that all comes down to the firmware in the actual DVD unit

this forum is a really good place if you want info like this, and this particuluar thread has a few of the better "versions" of the discs listed, but overall all brands listed there are good

http://forums.speedlabs.org/index.php?topic=23.0

Also, if you ask I'm sure they'd be able to verify what discs should work in what player

Basically your after the brands in the "Higher Quality" section Should all work ok... but as I said earlier, it'll come down to your parents player

theres a reason why they are a bit hard to get hold of...they had problems with them,apparently , about a month or 2 ago,were releasing them again,i may well be wrong but thats what i heard

[Marzz]

If you can find them, Maxdata. Otherwise Ritek.

[pendulum]

theres a reason why they are a bit hard to get hold of...they had problems with them,apparently , about a month or 2 ago,were releasing them again,i may well be wrong but thats what i heard

haha naah, I think that was a batch of fake discs :P Made by stupid "disc pirates" or whatever you call them lol
The site in my first post would have info on that somewhere

[holdensupporter2005]

Go Verbatim.

Verbatim have many different categories of quality.
go the Datalifeplus quality and you shouldn't have any problems.
I think verbatim even have a lifetime warranty on the datalifeplus range of disks.

[albert5268]

i make my own using tin lids... they looks pretty like britney spears *hick*

[Heffer_Slayer]

Blank media....anthing from msy.

www.msy.com.au

Princo, Melody, Ritek (top of the range), ive never had a problem with any of them.

[Bilbs]

I say anything BUT princo, we used a heap of them for movies, and 6 months down the track, more than 1/2 of them wont play properly, they were all fone at first, but now they freeze, glitch etc, even the data ones are missing some files, and wont read them, we normaly use ritek

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

tdk! tried many others and found tdk works well in both my xbox and dvd player in the lounge!
p.s dont buy cheap ones as they dont work and are a waste of money as i found out the hard way!

[pow3rslave]

i'd go verbatim, but officeworks sell singles, so if you're super concerned you could get 1 of a couple of different ones mentioned

[KingDiamond]

Taiyo Yuden are the best

[Spaced]

TDK and nero, I am yet to have a failure withe -R bought +R from a $2 store, the were crap.

-R is a lot more common as +R was proprietry sony and they tried to hog the market

[New2Holden]

TDK and nero, I am yet to have a failure withe -R bought +R from a $2 store, the were crap.

-R is a lot more common as +R was proprietry sony and they tried to hog the market

Last lot of DVD's I bought are TDK -R for data/video and they don't work in my parent's machine.

[CHEFAI]

TDK and Sony are really good

[Spaced]

Last lot of DVD's I bought are TDK -R for data/video and they don't work in my parent's machine.

Does your parents only play +R?

[New2Holden]

Does your parents only play +R?

Well that's a possibility although I started with Sony +R and that didn't work. For all the money I have spent on blank DVD's I could have bought them a new player.

[adam69]

whats the difference between the + and - ones?

[Bennyoz]

whats the difference between the + and - ones?

Have a read: Source Wikipedia.

"DVR+R format was developed by a coalition of corporations, known as the DVD+RW Alliance, in mid 2002. Since the DVD+R format is a competing format to the DVD-R format, which is developed by the DVD Forum, it has not been approved by the DVD Forum, which claims that the DVD+R format is not an official DVD format.

As of 2006, the market for recordable DVD technology shows little sign of settling down in favour of either the plus or minus formats, which is mostly the result of the increasing numbers of dual-format devices that can record to both formats; it has become very difficult to find new devices that can only record to one of the formats. However, because the DVD-R format has been in use since 1997, it has had a five-year lead on DVD+R. As such, older or cheaper DVD players (up to 2004 vintage) are more likely to favour the DVD-R standard exclusively, and when creating DVDs for distribution (where the playing unit is unknown or older) the DVD-R format would normally be preferable."

Same ongoing battle every time. DVD for one consortium and SACD for Sony. Now HD DVD for the same consortium VS Blue Ray for Sony. Take your pick.

[adam69]

Great info,thankyou for that.

[albert5268]

Same ongoing battle every time. DVD for one consortium and SACD for Sony. Now HD DVD for the same consortium VS Blue Ray for Sony. Take your pick.

The HD DVD and BluRay war is going to turn out the same as DVD+R vs DVD-R because of hybid drives. Both formats will continue to coexist with neither really winning or losing. The majority of drives will be hybrids and in a few years people won't even take notice if theyre sticking a BD-ROM or HD-DVD in their drives...

[Spaced]

Well that's a possibility although I started with Sony +R and that didn't work. For all the money I have spent on blank DVD's I could have bought them a new player.

Honestly the best dvd players are the real cheap ones, will play anything and now they play DivX although they only last about a year of continual use I find the more expensive the less they play and the more they are picky.