Are these Ricoh

by **dbreaux** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:41 pm

Best Buy has a 100 ct spindle of TDK DVD+R for $189.00. Are these produced my Ricoh? They can be found here: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... d=cat01163 By the way, could someone tell me how to post images in my forum messages?

by **Dartman** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:51 pm

I believe they are, I know those burn at 4x just fine in my Sony 500a with the last few firmwares.

by **dbreaux** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:23 pm

Dartman, could I get you to run dvdinfo on the media and verify our assumption. It can be found here: http://www.dvdinfopro.com/

by **Dartman** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:42 pm

I bought them in a 20 pack from Target a while ago and I'm pretty sure they are listed as being those kind. I burned my last one a week ago so I'll find one of them and see what it says.

OK here's the readout

Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID RICOHJPNR01
Format Type
Format Capacity 4.37GB(4.69GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22EF5Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

by **dbreaux** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:45 pm

Thanks for the help, my friend.

by **VEFF** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:34 pm

I still have some left.
I bought 200 on sale when they were $129 + tax per 100 at BestBuy months ago.
I returned 100 when they had Memorex 4X +R on sale for $30 per 25 pack months ago - the same promotion they have this week coincidentally.

I also got Verbatin 4X DVD+Rs for as low as $1 each + tax, which is what I paid last night (after a $5 coupon) for 25 Memorex 4X +R discs ($24.99 + tax).
The coupon has since expired.

I am confident it will be even easier to find 4X media routinely under $1 a disc by year end.

EDITED POST: To clarify that the TDKs were $129 per spindle of 100, in case anyone thought it was 200 for $129.

by **dbreaux** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:59 pm

Veff, did I read your message correctly? Best Buy is selling Memorex 4X DVD+R 25 pks for 30 bucks?

by **Ian** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:40 pm

dbreaux wrote:Veff, did I read your message correctly? Best Buy is selling Memorex 4X DVD+R 25 pks for 30 bucks?

Yup. I grabbed a pack this week too.

by **VEFF** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:41 pm

dbreaux wrote:Veff, did I read your message correctly? Best Buy is selling Memorex 4X DVD+R 25 pks for 30 bucks?

Yes, that is correct. They have the same sale price they had a few months ago.
I have seen a few better deals on 4X +R media, but this is, to the best of my knowledge, the best deal on name brand (i.e. Ricoh made or MCC [not to be confused with CMC] made) 4X +R media in the US this week.

by **Dartman** on Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:39 am

I need to get some more + media and I guess I'll just have to keep trying small batches of - till I find some 4x the 500 likes. Did you find any that worked when you had your's VEFF?

by **VEFF** on Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:43 am

Dartman wrote:I need to get some more + media and I guess I'll just have to keep trying small batches of - till I find some 4x the 500 likes. Did you find any that worked when you had your's VEFF?

Unfortunately I can't help:
I didn't try a single 4X -R with my 500A before selling it, because
4X +R was always on sale and therefore cheaper.
4X +R was often cheaper than 2X -R (e.g. TDK and Verbatim deals)
In addition, brand name 4X -R was harder to find.

by **Kennyshin** on Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:49 am

I can have a few thousand Ricoh 4x DVD+R discs for about US$1.5 per disc. This seems to be the best priced 8x-recordable media in South Korean retail market. But PX-708X price here is over US$300, about 2x OEM price.

by **DonBerg** on Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:50 am

Best Buy's sale price on Memorex 4x DVD+R (25pack spindle for $29.99) is 40% off the regular price. CompUSA had a 40% off coupon all Memorex DVD media last week, so thats the same deal. They repeat that sale on Memorex only quite often. I've never used DVD-R on my combo recorder because the faster 4x DVD+R media and DVD+RW media is cheaper for me with all the sales - I just don't get those who use 1x DVD-R media all the time, so slow and not really cheaper if you shop around. Plus the el-cheapo DVD-R media is lower quality too.

by **Stoner** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:28 pm

I'm about to pickup some Memorex 4x DVD+R from BB, can someone confirm that they are made by Ricoh? Thnx.

by **dolphinius_rex** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:24 pm

Stoner wrote:I'm about to pickup some Memorex 4x DVD+R from BB, can someone confirm that they are made by Ricoh? Thnx.

Confirmed as RicohJPN01

by **Dartman** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:32 pm

Here just in case you want to see what your getting

Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID RICOHJPNR01
Format Capacity Not Formatted
Free Blocks 405405696
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Memorex confirmed twice

by **Robotnik** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:52 pm

DonBerg wrote:I just don't get those who use 1x DVD-R media all the time, so slow and not really cheaper if you shop around. Plus the el-cheapo DVD-R media is lower quality too.

It's because we're faithful to the Minus camp! Minus forever!!

by **Dartman** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:04 pm

Minus media is more compatible with older equipment so I use it when I can. As I said so far I haven't found any that writes faster then 2x so I'll probably stick with plus becuase it does work at 4x and that's part of the reason I bought my drive, to burn faster.
All of the drives and players I have now work with plus, my older ones didn't.

by **Stoner** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:16 pm

Thanks for the confirms dolphinius_rex and Dartman.

Time to stock up. A hundred should be good enough for now. Don't want to have a room full of 4x when 8x comes out.

by **wicked1** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:37 pm

Dartman wrote:Minus media is more compatible with older equipment so I use it when I can. As I said so far I haven't found any that writes faster then 2x so I'll probably stick with plus becuase it does work at 4x and that's part of the reason I bought my drive, to burn faster.
All of the drives and players I have now work with plus, my older ones didn't.

give samsungs beALL media a try.I got it from meriline.com it butns at 4.0-4.1X on the sonys.Its the only dvd-rs that I have burnt at 4x on my sony.Meritline states that is definately compatible with the sony.

by **Dartman** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:50 pm

Thanks I noticed you'd posted you got them to work. Would any of the popular stores like BB or like that have any in stock so I could try em out?
The ones form PC Club I got are generic ricoh and claim 4x but still only do 2. The worst part is I bought 50 and my Step dad got me 25 more :evil:

Well at least they work...S L O W L Y.

by **Stoner** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:06 pm

Just happened to be browsing Amazon.com and found they have the Memorex 4x DVD+R for $30 also. Since those bastards at BB will charge me tax, I went w/ Amazon. Free S/H and no tax. Sweetness.

by **aviationwiz** on Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:17 pm

Stoner wrote:Just happened to be browsing Amazon.com and found they have the Memorex 4x DVD+R for $30 also. Since those bastards at BB will charge me tax, I went w/ Amazon. Free S/H and no tax. Sweetness.

Yup, it's a great deal.

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