best recordable media

[David Garrett]

I stuck with Verbatim for a while but still i had the odd DVD not playing at all. I changed to Ritek and there was no change to the amount of discs not playing, some folks swear by taiyo yuden (think that is the correct spelling). It is always a bit hit and miss as to what’s good and what’s not

[Wes Kane]

I was using Taiyo Yuden then had a couple that are now coasters. I switched to Maxell. Working well. All in all I think it might be good to have a mixture in case you give someone a copy and it doesn’t play. I’ve used Taiyo Yuden, Maxell, Verbatium, and TDK. Happy with all of them.

[Dan Rubottom]

I’ve been having a lot of problems with +R lately, basically it seems to skip a lot on playback on set tops.
-R seems to be less problematic for me. Don’t know if anyone else shares this experience or not.
Sony VC10 (use +r for standalone mode, and -r for computer mode).

dan

[Aanarav Sareen]

The quality of the media depends on the dye being used for the discs. I wrote this a while back and it may help you out: https://asvideoproductions.com/video/articles/dvdinfo.pdf

[Wes Kane]

DVD-R is best suited for playback in most all DVD players. The first generation players may have trouble reading them, but about 95% of the players out there will play them. DVD+R don’t playback in machines unless the player states it plays DVD+R. I don’t use DVD+R, I think their best suited for storing files on for your computer.

If the DVD-R you are using skips or jumps, try taking it out and putting it back in again, sometimes the reader may weird out on the disc. If it happens again, then you might have bad disc.

[Jeffrey]

Aanarav,

That article was great..great links too!…now I know I just bought 100 terrible disks 2 weeks ago.