by boblx2 on Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:45 pm
After wasting lots of bucks on bulk media and so called "Budget" media I have learned that there is no free lunch. Nor a cheap lunch for that matter. I now buy blank DVD media from local stores. Yes they charge 2 to 4 bucks US per disc but every one that I have bought worked! I do not burn a large number of DVD's so I might change my views if that were the case, but for the few that I use this works. I have loads of coasters and potential coasters that I have bought from these shysters on the Internet. But looking through the ads in the Sunday paper I can usually come up with 2 or 3 stores that sell blank, name brand DVD media, both + and -, for 2 to 4 dollars each. Sometimes for less if I want to buy a few more. But I have never gotten a coaster out of any of them with either the Sony DRU-500A or the A04 or A05.
The brands I use are TDK, Sony, and Verbatim, to name a few. But I am sure there are other name brand media that will work also.
I guess this is no good for anyone who uses a lot of media but I am just an experimenter so it works for me..........
Have fun.........Bob