Is Ritek media the best for the price?

[ricrat]

I've been told that this DVD-Rs are the best for the money. What exper-
ience have you had? I leaning towards getting the full-version Pioneer
106 with a new system.

[dolphinius_rex]

I would say, excluding rebate situations, that yes, Ritek is the best quality for the price.

The Pioneer 106 is a good drive, and won't let you down. The Optorite DD0203 is also a good drive

[ricrat]

Thank you for your input. I'm thinking of buying a 25-pack to see how the
Pioneer likes it.
One person I trade with has 35 of them and burns 4000+/week but the
media he sold me ($1.10/disc) has too many errors!. I'm using the
Panasonic E80H.
How is the Pioneer on CD burning?
Richard

[Scour]

Hello!

I think it depends on the writer.

I had many CD-R´s from Ritek, and the quality is sometimes completely different, from real bad to excellent

[CowboySlim]

Was the Yugo the best car for the price? I dunno', sometimes you just get what you paid for.

[RJW]

I would say, excluding rebate situations, that yes, Ritek is the best quality for the price.

The Pioneer 106 is a good drive, and won't let you down. The Optorite DD0203 is also a good drive

When there G04 hit the market it was great price/quality rateing however today G04 media shows huge differnces. That is partially because of the bad quality controle of Primedisc(RITEK + Philips german production plant) and the fact that a large shipment of media which officially was supposed to be destroyed has slipped on the market. The slipped batches are claimed as illegal/pirated media by Ritek.

Second point is that I wouldn't be that enthousiast about Ritek after the synthetic ageing tests I have seen. (At the same level as CMC !)

Personally I want also to be able to use my discs's over 3 years and the synthetic tests show up that problems are be there.
For that reason I would slightly pay the extra costs of MCC, Ricoh, TY, Maxell manufactured media.

[dolphinius_rex]

Unfortunatly, you can't easily get any of that media here in Canada without paying a MAJOR premium! Heck, I work for one of Canada's biggest Maxell distributors and I still get dinged pretty bad if I want to buy Maxell DVDs! The only cheap maxell DVDs are the illegal ones with the pirated ID code!

The only Ricoh discs I've seen are the DVD+Rs, and those are really made by Ritek I believe anyways.

I haven't seen any T.Y. discs, unless they are still under the fuji name, in which case they are MASSIVELY over priced as well and VERY difficult to find too!

MCC is easier to find under Verbatim Datalife Plus, but again, the price is crazy compared to Ritek.

It's pretty sad, but I can buy 2 or 3 pieces of Ritek media for the same price as 1 of any of the above mentioned DVDs!

[RJW]

Yes a lot of ricoh media is made by Ritek.
However it uses the ricoh dye and ricoh quality controle which makes a huge difference. (The DVD-R disc's Ritek makes are based on Riteks own technology.) And yes Ricoh is only DVD+R because there one of the inventors of it and really think +R will win. (Just like Philips) With -r Ricoh would have to pay Pioneer which they think is a quite bad idea.

Not all companies are betting on 2 horses like MCC does.
On one hand MCC is in the +R side with there co-development of dual-layer. BUt on the other hand there on the -r side with there new specially designed -R stamper which will make it easier to make good -r disc's.

Fuji is selling some TY media but also own made media.

So it means that you buy 3 ritek disc's. Still if we count the times there media lasts up for 3 disc's and compare it to the other media. Then we can conclude that 3 disc's are gone while the other still remains.
So if the 3 disc's are still value for money I don't know.
For archiveing I would clearly not recommend Ritek and CMC media.
Still they might be fine for a quick storage.

You really don't want pirated Maxell stuff. This stuff is as bad as Princo.