Media sales starting tomorrow 01-23-2005

[Jim]

Anything more than 40 cents a disc was skipped:

Best Buy:
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Fuji 8X 25 pack DVD+-R for $9.99 (look for Made in Japan)

Office Depot:
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Maxell (4X or 8X depending on your store) 25 pack DVD+-R for $9.99 (look for Made in Japan)

CompUSA
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Sony (likely 8X) DVD+-R 2x50 packs (100 total) for $39.98 (look for Made in Japan)
Sony 4X DVD+RW 2x25 packs (50 total) for $34.98 (look for Made in Japan)

Circuit City
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Verbatim DVD+-R Movie Reel $14.99 - $5 MAIL-IN REBATE (MCC?)

OfficeMAX
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Khypermedia 100 pack CD-R spindle $13.99 - $5 MAIL-IN REBATE

Staples
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Staples DVD+-R 25 pack $7.94 (Optodisc?)

[Ian]

Office Depot:
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Maxell (4X or 8X depending on your store) 25 pack DVD+-R for $9.99 (look for Made in Japan)

Thanks Jim! I'm all over that Maxell deal. It's not as good as the 15 for $5, but I know my local store has tons of 25 packs.

[bkf2]

Yes the CompUsa Sony disks will be 8X and 4X. Had good luck with them.

[ETP]

I like the FUGI 8X +R (MIJ)better for that price.
Are you guys getting 8x-R Maxell to burn at 16X?

[dirtytacoz]

I picked up those maxells last week at Office Depot:

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID MAXELL 002
Media Product Revision Number 00h
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 405405696
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 01 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 4D 41 58 45 4C 4C 00 00 30 .......MAXELL..0
00000020 30 32 00 38 23 54 37 12 02 42 71 02 8C 68 15 15 02.8#T7..Bq..h..
00000030 0B 0B 08 08 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................

They burned perfect at 12x, but 16x locked up my burner > PX 716A 1.03

didn't try the -R only the +R

[ETP]

Record time at 12X? If it's around 6 minutes then 12X sounds fine in that case and I may visit my local store.

[Ian]

I've always been very happy with Maxell's +R and -R media.. the made in Japan stuff that is.

[noycan]

Jim,

For the second week in a row, thanks for the information. Last week I got the Maxell -R media, which works great with my standalone player. This week I got the Fuji made in Japan +R media. I will use this for data and hard-disk-image backup. So, I'm all set with media for a while.

Thanks again.

Bob Anderson

[TCAS]

If you have no problem with DVD-R to be played in your stand alone player then for DVD+R burn them with bite setting as DVD-ROM, that way you won't have problem with either of them. The Newer stand alone players read any media (DVD=/-R, DVD+/-RW) without any difficulty.

[Jim]

For the second week in a row, thanks for the information. Last week I got the Maxell -R media, which works great with my standalone player. This week I got the Fuji made in Japan +R media. I will use this for data and hard-disk-image backup. So, I'm all set with media for a while.

No problem. I'm glad you, Ian, and others found it useful.

Jim

[dirtytacoz]

Record time at 12X? If it's around 6 minutes then 12X sounds fine in that case and I may visit my local store.

+/- 6 min 20 seconds

FYI > I picked up the Fuji DVD+R 8x (made in Japan) at best buy yesterday, it is the YUDEN000 T02, and I was able to burn it at 16x (+/- 4min 30sec) with PX-716A FW 1.03

[BillyG]

A freind bought the Khypermedia 100 pack and I noticed they were "made In china"?? CMC is making them now in china?

Format Capacity 0.69GB(0.74GB)
Media Type CD-R
ATIP Start Time of Lead In (Media Code) 97m26s66f
ATIP Last Possible Start Time of Lead Out 79m59s71f
Manufacturer Name CMC Magnetics Corporation
HD-BURN Certified YES
Available Write Descriptor CLV 48.0x 7200KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 40.0x 6000KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 32.0x 4800KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 24.0x 3600KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 2400KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 1200KBps