What do you use to burn Blu-ray?

[Hugh Marley]

I have used Verbatim 2X LTH type Verbatim 4X Panasonic 6X (which burn fine @ 8X) and have just tried JVC Taiyo Yudin LTH with a complete failure; “No Disk In Drive” is the message from both the editing program and Nero test and Info, so can’t even start the process.
Burner Pioneer BDR203 with last FW update V1.13.
Has anyone had more success with this combination?

[Rich Kutnick]

I also have researched this and can corroborate that LTH is a DVD, not Blu-ray, spec. I ran in to the same problem–my new Blu-ray player that accepted a firmware/software update read the LTH disks, but my older Vizio Blu-ray player (which I could NOT update) refused to read the LTH-written Blu-ray disk.

Here’s more info,straight from the horse’s mouth (err…Ritek, that is):

BDR-254-RDIWN-CB50 Ridata BDR 4X HTL inkjet white hub printable, 50 cake
BDR-254-RDIWNCB50L Ridata BDR 4X LTH inkjet white hub printable, 50 cake
BDR-256-RDIWN-CB50 Ridata BDR 6X HTL inkjet white hub printable, 50 cake

Watch out for Blu-ray disk model numbers that contain “L” at the end of the model number.

For example,on the Newegg web site I spotted this:

RiDATA 25GB 4X BD-R Inkjet white hub-printable 50 Packs Cake Box Disc, Low-to-High Model BDR-254-RDIWNCB50L
Ritek Ridata Blu-Ray (BD-R) White Inkjet Hub Printable 6X BD-R Media 25GB 50 Pack in Cake Box (BDR-256-RDIWN-CB50)

Notice that the LTH disks end with “L” in the model number. “254” vs. “256” in the model numbers designate 4X vs. 6X writing speed. FYI!

Rich Kutnick
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