FUJI DVD-R made in Taiwan

[LordTrace]

I have been buying nothing but fuji (made in JAP) CD-R for a while now and i love them .. I Just got a dvd burner and im lookin at the fuji 4x dvd-r and the ones at the store in town say Taiwan I heard that these are ritek (witch is good) and the Jap ones are TY (also good .. i think) but im not sure. Did a few searches here and didnt see anything concrete so i was wondering if anyone could shed some light before i buy the tai ones ?

Thanks guys

[rdgrimes]

Here, only the jewel-case packages of 5 and 10 are TY, all the spindles are made in Taiwan. don't know for sure who makes the Taiwan discs, but they could be Ricoh/Ritek.

[RJW]

Since when is Ricoh makeing DVD-R
Since it's 4x DVD-R media and it's taiwan manufactured the bigest change is that it is Ritek G04.

[rdgrimes]

Sorry for the confusion. Best information is that Ritek and Ricoh are coming from the same producion line in Taiwan, so I kind of interchange them somtimes.

[dolphinius_rex]

Sorry for the confusion. Best information is that Ritek and Ricoh are coming from the same producion line in Taiwan, so I kind of interchange them somtimes.

I believe that is only for DVD+Rs

[LordTrace]

so they are most likely Ricoh/Ritek?

is Ricoh Ritek? lol


thanks again

[aviationwiz]

Ricoh is only DVD+R. Ritek DVD+R's are labeled as Ricoh.

Ritek DVD-R is plain Ritek. There is no such thing as Ricoh or Ricoh labeled DVD-R.

[LordTrace]

cool i guess ill buy a 5 pack and see

hope they are ritek

[dolphinius_rex]

Ricoh and Ritek work together very often. Ritek makes a lot of Ricoh's CD-Rs using their technology and quality standards (oddly enough, they are often much worse quality then Ritek standard stuff, so why not just use Ritek's quality control??). As for DVD+Rs, I believe Ritek is making them for Ricoh as well, although RJW knows MUCH better then I on this one. For some reason my contact at Ritek always doges these sort of questions....