[MacDV] Re: DVD-R Media

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I have always bought the the least expensive CD-R & DVD-R media and 
have never had one fail after it was burned successfully.  Even CDs 
that spend their life inside my car with all the environmental extremes 
that entails have survived.  My DVD-Rs are stored at home which has 
relatively constant temperature and humidity so feel they should last 
even longer.



Gerhard
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 08:06  PM, Danny Grizzle wrote:

> On 1/27/03 5:53 PM, "Ian Tucker" <carlian at picknowl.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Getting back to DVD-R media; I decided to use the Google search
>> facility in Safari and managed to locate a warehouse in Canberra 
>> A.C.T.
>> (Technology Warehouse Australia) which had 50 disc spindles for $A152.
>> This price incs. freight.    The brand is "MAXMAX" ...........has
>> anyone had any experience with these?
>
> I do not try to save money on cheap optical media. DVD-R is not a 
> commodity
> product. I am also happy to pay for premium CD-R discs.
>
> There have been plenty of published horror stories about discs which 
> verify,
> then fail to read only weeks or months later. Manufacturer quality 
> control
> is everything. To my way of thinking, laser action on the dye layer in
> recordable optical media is like getting your ears pierced. Just as an 
> ear
> can weep and heal, so too can a dye layer slowly ooze, migrate, and 
> fill
> pits.
>
> You are right to investigate brand names. For example, Memorex, despite
> their consumer advertising as a "premium" brand, is untrustworthy. 
> They have
> been known to OEM label goods purchased off the spot market with very 
> little
> quality control or consistency from batch to batch.
>
> I would located a trusted brand and a trusted vendor. Vendor is 
> critical
> because of care and attention to storage conditions. For critical,
> irreplaceable discs, it is wise to not only record multiple copies for
> storage at separate locations (fire, etc.), but also multiple copies 
> at each
> location on different brands of media, to insure against the 
> possibility of
> a bad batch or manufacturing run of an otherwise excellent product.
>
> Any recurrence of disc failure would warrant blacklisting the brand.
>
> Danny Grizzle
>
>
>
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