Yesbuy 8x DVD media?Wha?????

[NoSmartz]

I read a post the other day saying that Yesbuy.com had some 8x DVD media for sale at a good price.I've never heard of the brand so I decided to contact them to ask what brand they were.Here's their response to me:

Dear Customer,
The brand of the DVD+R 8x is a generic brand which is called our Sky Brand, it is our household brand and is maufactured in Hong Kong. Then item code is 11-0110. Thank you

Didn't tell me much so I went to DVDRhelp.com and found there brand of media.http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmedia.php?dvdmediasearch=sky&dvdmediadvdridsearch=&type=6&size=All&dvdburnspeed=All&searchdvdwriter=&searchdvdwriterfirmware=&searchdvdplayer=&order=Name&search=Search+or+List+Media
I have never heard of most of the media codes listed.Is anyone familiar with this media code or company that makes em.Are they any good?

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[RJW]

Hmm don't trust it.
Why first the sky at dvdrhelp is a mix of the swedish brand and the honkong.
Now the swedish factory brand makes there own media.
And has the sky and plasmon stampers.

The other one has used fake Maxell id stampers. The fake maxell media is really poor.

I also have my doubts of being it real 8x media since so far only Mitsubishi/Verbatim seems to be able to ship 8x media limited and offcourse we still have the claims of Ritek. But with Ritek no store has proven to be able to sell the right media at this time. This might change in the upcomming week. If average quality manufacturers allready have problems with makeing 8x media, then the cheap hongkong manufacturers will not be able to do it.

So stay away from these.

[jsl]

Hmm don't trust it.
Why first the sky at dvdrhelp is a mix of the swedish brand and the honkong.
Now the swedish factory brand makes there own media.

Sweden != Switzerland Sky Media is a Swiss company, http://www.skymediamanufacturing.com/

[NoSmartz]

Yeah,I had never heard of those media companies.I usually stick with MCC,TDK,Ritek,Ricoh etc...Sometimes Prodisc.Definately not Princo,CMC etc...I'd figured it'd be to good to be true for that pricing.I'll just wait for the Verbatim's to come down to $1.00 a piece.yeah right!!!

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[dolphinius_rex]

Yeah,I had never heard of those media companies.I usually stick with MCC,TDK,Ritek,Ricoh etc...Sometimes Prodisc.Definately not Princo,CMC etc...I'd figured it'd be to good to be true for that pricing.I'll just wait for the Verbatim's to come down to $1.00 a piece.yeah right!!!

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At this point I believe CMC DVDs are safer then Prodisc...

[NoSmartz]

dolphinius_rex
check out this link for Prodisc.Tooooo much generic stuff in there for me to go with Prodisc.You are correct.I like their cd-r's(no probs) but not for DVD±R media.I just haven't had the best luck with CMC.
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmedia.php?dvdmediasearch=&dvdmediadvdridsearch=prodisc&type=6&size=All&dvdburnspeed=All&searchdvdwriter=&searchdvdwriterfirmware=&searchdvdplayer=&order=Name&search=Search+or+List+Media

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[aviationwiz]

I bought Sky 99 min. CD-R media from them. It was Ritek...

[RJW]

Hmm don't trust it.
Why first the sky at dvdrhelp is a mix of the swedish brand and the honkong.
Now the swedish factory brand makes there own media.

Sweden != Switzerland Sky Media is a Swiss company, http://www.skymediamanufacturing.com/

Oops Yes I screwed up on that one.

dolphinius_rex wrote:

At this point I believe CMC DVDs are safer then Prodisc...

Yes they are prodisc is really crap when it comes to DVD recordables just like MITSUI/CSI. These guys make crap disc's and have very poor support to the drive manufacturers.
CMC on the other hand:
A Has still a to bad reputation
B Sometimes a to rough quality controle on the non recording disc aspects of the media.


Don't buy any verbatim you see if you want to avoid CMC since there is a lot of CMC taiwanese verbatim media floating arround these days.
The disc's are quite okay if your drive supports CMC media good that is.