8.5GB storage capacity per disc(4 hours recording time)
2 recording layers (requires a double-layer recordable DVD drive)
Discs can be played back on most DVD players and DVD-ROM drives
This is the best price I've seen so far today, by about $5 if picked up in-store. If shipping is preferred, check out the sale at SuperMediaStore.com. The price is $27.99, but with free shipping it's actually a buck cheaper than shipping from BestBuy.com
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I wouldn't support Best Buy, buy them online! You can find them for about $1.00-$1.25 a disc if you look around. I want to see Best Buy go down like Circuit Shitty and CompUSSR.
kreon360 said: I wouldn't support Best Buy, buy them online! You can find them for about $1.00-$1.25 a disc if you look around. I want to see Best Buy go down like Circuit Shitty and CompUSSR.
I agree with the Best Buy comment. I've had a small BB gift card that I can't use cause they typically charge so much for everything. Last week I needed a 2.0 USB PCMCIA cardbus, found it at BB for $30. Went home and found it online for $8 (shipped). I fear that I'll never use my gift card. Previous purchase was a Panasonic 42". Best buy had it for over $1K, got it online for $800 (shipped).
palone44
Member
posted: Jul. 7, 2009 @ 9:57a
I feel the same way about that 4h&* heads You are Super.lol
Yeller said: kreon360 said: I wouldn't support Best Buy, buy them online! You can find them for about $1.00-$1.25 a disc if you look around. I want to see Best Buy go down like Circuit Shitty and CompUSSR.
I agree with the Best Buy comment. I've had a small BB gift card that I can't use cause they typically charge so much for everything. Last week I needed a 2.0 USB PCMCIA cardbus, found it at BB for $30. Went home and found it online for $8 (shipped). I fear that I'll never use my gift card. Previous purchase was a Panasonic 42". Best buy had it for over $1K, got it online for $800 (shipped).
So.... let me get this straight,
you dont like Bestbuy because they charge too much,but now they have these for $1.1495 a disc and you wont support them even though they are selling them for a good price??
and instead of using a gift card and paying maybe $22 too much, you will rather waste the card not use it and lose it??
wow, dude ,you are one smart shopper, no wonder our country is in so much trouble, with reasoning like that.
here is a thought, use your gift card and buy the discs on sale at a good price this week.
and when BB isnt selling something at a good price,DONT shop there, whats wrong with shopping at a store only when they have a sale?
you people saying you wont support them even when they have a good price because you dont like their regular prices!??!?!?!?!?!
smoeke said: Yeller said: kreon360 said: I wouldn't support Best Buy, buy them online! You can find them for about $1.00-$1.25 a disc if you look around. I want to see Best Buy go down like Circuit Shitty and CompUSSR.
I agree with the Best Buy comment. I've had a small BB gift card that I can't use cause they typically charge so much for everything. Last week I needed a 2.0 USB PCMCIA cardbus, found it at BB for $30. Went home and found it online for $8 (shipped). I fear that I'll never use my gift card. Previous purchase was a Panasonic 42". Best buy had it for over $1K, got it online for $800 (shipped).
So.... let me get this straight,
you dont like Bestbuy because they charge too much,but now they have these for $1.1495 a disc and you wont support them even though they are selling them for a good price??
When someone says they see them for $1 online, I'm assuming it's tax free and zero shipping. My math says $1/disk is cheaper than $1.1495/disk.
Maybe you should contribute rather than bash Fatwallet members. Bashing others while hiding behind your keyboard is what's wrong with America.
The 6 or 8x discs are certainly unusual to go on sale anytime and $23 for 20 discs is excellent price.
OfficeMax occasionally has the typical 2.4x discs on sale for around $1.25/disc. The 2.4x regularly burn at 4X on most of my newer firmware updated DL burners with no problems. I'm not sure I'd attempt 6-8x burns regardless of the discs. Newegg often has the 2.4x spindles at around 1.10-1.20 per disc on sale and almost all the recently shipped packs are the preferred Made in Singapore and not the India discs which have had quality issues.
Sam's regular price for the 50 disc 2.4x spindle is $59 in most stores and you still have to search through the MIS and MII packs to make sure. Some stores have had them at $50. A few stores even were at $39 a few months ago though never in my area and I've not seen anybody reporting that price lately. I finally found a Sam's locally with them on sale -- the Hickory NC store had them at $53, but only 3 of the 15 spindles were MIS (I bought 2 of those). Even better news is the Anderson SC store has 50packs for $45. I was there Sunday and they had around 20 spindles (8 or 9 were MIS). I bought 2 more of the spindles so there were at least 6 MIS left Sunday night at the $45 (+6% tax) for anybody local.
Pretty warm deal. I hate BestBuy as much as anybody, but a deal is a deal. Think I might stock up on these for, uh, completely legitimate xbox 360 backup purposes.
Edit: Damn site says they're not in stock at my store.
This is not the faster DL media. The picture and Verbatim part # 95310 are both for the 2.4x media, which Verbatim is apparently now calling "2.4x - 6x" media. The faster media is "8x - 10x" and doesn't come in 20-packs according to their web site...
cuafe said: This is not the faster DL media. The picture and Verbatim part # 95310 are both for the 2.4x media, which Verbatim is apparently now calling "2.4x - 6x" media. The faster media is "8x - 10x" and doesn't come in 20-packs according to their web site... Good catch, cuafe. Best Buy's listing says it's 6x, but, as you've indicated, that's a bit misleading. I'm changing the thread title and link title to reflect better accuracy. After checking Verbatim's site, I see it is indeed considered a 2.4X by them!
fuzzymello said: cuafe said: This is not the faster DL media. The picture and Verbatim part # 95310 are both for the 2.4x media, which Verbatim is apparently now calling "2.4x - 6x" media. The faster media is "8x - 10x" and doesn't come in 20-packs according to their web site... Good catch, cuafe. Best Buy's listing says it's 6x, but, as you've indicated, that's a bit misleading. I'm changing the thread title and link title to reflect better accuracy. After checking Verbatim's site, I see it is indeed considered a 2.4X by them!
Verbatim 2.4x DL media (MKM 001) has always been burnable at speeds up to 8x depending on the burner and firmware. To be on the safe side, the discs should not be burned faster than 6x. This is not a new development or some new marketing scheme. This is the way it has always been, and in fact the old Verbatim packaging used to always explicitly state the maximum burning speed as being 6x or 8x. People have been burning this media at 4x, 6x, and 8x almost exclusively for years.
An additional fact is that based on anecdotal user experiences publicly shared at places like CDFreaks, VideoHelp, and elsewhere, this media actually burns worse at 2.4x than it does at 4x or 6x! Most of the manufacturers of DVD burners have optimized the DL write strategies in their firmware to burn at 4x or faster, and have not bothered to do the same with 2.4x. So, in fact, this media isn't even safely burnable at 2.4x! You should always burn it at at least 4x speed to get the best burns.
SickTeddyBear said: fuzzymello said: cuafe said: This is not the faster DL media. The picture and Verbatim part # 95310 are both for the 2.4x media, which Verbatim is apparently now calling "2.4x - 6x" media. The faster media is "8x - 10x" and doesn't come in 20-packs according to their web site... Good catch, cuafe. Best Buy's listing says it's 6x, but, as you've indicated, that's a bit misleading. I'm changing the thread title and link title to reflect better accuracy. After checking Verbatim's site, I see it is indeed considered a 2.4X by them!
Verbatim 2.4x DL media (MKM 001) has always been burnable at speeds up to 8x depending on the burner and firmware. To be on the safe side, the discs should not be burned faster than 6x. This is not a new development or some new marketing scheme. This is the way it has always been, and in fact the old Verbatim packaging used to always explicitly state the maximum burning speed as being 6x or 8x. People have been burning this media at 4x, 6x, and 8x almost exclusively for years.
An additional fact is that based on anecdotal user experiences publicly shared at places like CDFreaks, VideoHelp, and elsewhere, this media actually burns worse at 2.4x than it does at 4x or 6x! Most of the manufacturers of DVD burners have optimized the DL write strategies in their firmware to burn at 4x or faster, and have not bothered to do the same with 2.4x. So, in fact, this media isn't even safely burnable at 2.4x! You should always burn it at at least 4x speed to get the best burns.
No kidding? I've always heard that it's best to burn no faster than 4x to minimize errors on the disc. And in my personal experience, I've had a few cases where when I got coasters when burning faster than 4x. I've been burning at 2.4x ever since, and it's worked fine, just takes for-frikkin-ever.
maxxjulie
Member
posted: Jul. 7, 2009 @ 4:16p
thanks. i'm almost out of dl dvd+r's and i was thinking i need to buy some. sale is perfect timing.
Cyfun said: No kidding? I've always heard that it's best to burn no faster than 4x to minimize errors on the disc. And in my personal experience, I've had a few cases where when I got coasters when burning faster than 4x.
It all depends on your burner. Some drives are better at burning DL media than others (newer Pioneer and Optiarc drives, for example), and can burn at faster speeds. Others aren't so good, and so you should keep the speed slower.
maxxjulie
Member
posted: Jul. 7, 2009 @ 5:14p
most burners suck at burning at any speed. so burn @ 2.4x to up your chances. benq used to make great burners but they are no more. it's like liteon burners are the only good option nowadays.
vws said: sidewinder33625 said: bought 4 for 20.69 each after 10% BB movers coupon from SD. So is it the same price in-store, or you had to do PM first? Same price. I bought 2.
OMG...this time is is a SPINDLE and not a "Cake Box?"
starfox9000
Member
posted: Jul. 7, 2009 @ 10:03p
When I burn these discs using ImgBurn (with a new LG drive), even if I select 2x, the actual write speed is 4x (0 coasters out of 20 good burns in a recent 20 pack singapore 2.4X from neweg 24.99 - 5 (new customer) + CA tax + 0 FS). Using the same setup I had one bad burn (io error, unrecoverable) in a 15 pack of the 8x (singapore purchased at Frys).
Green for OP. Good price and I have a gift card to use up. I'm no BB fan, but a good price is a good price.
As for the speed, I could care less how fast it burns. What's important to me is that it's a quality burn that won't get bit rot prematurely. Take a whole day to burn, I don't care, I can use the computer to do other stuff.
maxxjulie
Member
posted: Jul. 8, 2009 @ 2:02a
not supposed to use the computer to do other stuff while burning discs if you want quality burns.
maxxjulie said: most burners suck at burning at any speed. so burn @ 2.4x to up your chances. benq used to make great burners but they are no more. it's like liteon burners are the only good option nowadays.
WHHHAAAT? Are you serious? Funny I think I have had one bad burn in the last 1,000 and don't own a Benq or a Liteon...by making a statement like you just did, I would bet on operator error being what caused your burn problems.
Some more options for this 20-pack 2.4X-6X DVD+R DL (model #95310):
$21.59 @ Newegg.com (after 10% off promo code BHDJULY89, ends 7/8) $23.99 @ Amazon.com (if you have Prime or fillers to get free shipping) <<== price's gone up to $25.99 so no filler is needed for free shipping $24.99 @ Micro Center (in-store pickup or $5.99 shipping, if you just don't like BB)
i had burning problems many years ago before I learned about how to do it properly. i found out which burners were the best out and how Yaiyo Yuden 8x premium dvd-r's are the best media to use for single layer and Verbatim is best for dual layer. i used to quality scan all my burns using nero cd-dvd speed. if you burn discs too fast the quality will be poor. they might still be perfectly readable, but they will degrade in time and become unreadable. good quality burns will last much longer. very few burners can burn dual layer well beyond 2.4x. dvd+r/-r's can be burned @8x. Anything faster and you got the same problem. very few can do it well faster than 8x. I know what I'm talking about.
ev0lution9
Thrifty Member
posted: Jul. 9, 2009 @ 1:39a
ct99 said: Some more options for this 20-pack 2.4X-6X DVD+R DL (model #95310):
$21.59 @ Newegg.com (after 10% off promo code BHDJULY89, ends 7/8) $23.99 @ Amazon.com (if you have Prime or fillers to get free shipping) <<== price's gone up to $25.99 so no filler is needed for free shipping $24.99 @ Micro Center (in-store pickup or $5.99 shipping, if you just don't like BB)
just got these 25$ after tax. Pretty good for instant gratification. Media code mkm 001 book type shows dvd-rom on one computer and dvd+r on another /shrug
lenord said: Great deal. Though I'll never understand why putting a white printable coating on these almost doubles the price: $46.08 for the same discs, in white @ Amazon.com I've never understood that either. A permanent marker will do just fine on a regular one.
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