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 What do you mean by this ..

And exactly what do you want verified in the link, there are dozens of posts in that thread

FAKE TYS~!! stay away~! :)

do a search with my name and FAKE Taiyo Yuden and you will find me talking at lengths about them~ :)

whoever told you that about the "TYG02" coding OBVIOUSLY doesn't know how to discern AUTHENTIC Taiyo Yudens from FAKE ONES~ the "High-Speed" are DEFINITELY FAKE~!

docTY~

@thelox714

i "outsourced" to my friends from other states that COULD get them locally without having to wait...so, yes, i did...they picked them up, i paid them back + shipping costs to get them to me~ :) it's good to have friends in other states that are willing to me a favor, so, it's all good for me~ :) call me crazy, but, including the ONE pack of DLs and some 100 pack spindles i got for myself here locally...very close to spending $500 in 1 week on media ALONE HAHAHAHAHAHA.

docTY~

hi eric,

well, i didn't mean to sound condescending by asking you to use the search function, but a long story short... those "High-Speed" dvd media use the Taiyo Yuden MEDIA ID CODING, however, if my memory serves me correctly, they are MADE IN TAIWAN...this should be a dead giveaway when dealing with TY media~ :) Taiyo Yuden ONLY MANUFACTURES in JAPAN, nowhere else...

also, another SURE-FIRE way to distinguish AUTHENTIC TY media is by a laser inscribed coding near the inner hub of the actual disc...

for 4x dvd-r, the coding follows THIS format: GD000xxx (where xxx is the batch number of when it was made @ TY factory)

for 8x dvd-r, the coding follows THIS format: GG000xxx (where xxx is the batch number once again)

for 8x dvd+r, the coding follows THIS format: TG000xxx (same thing applies for the xxx portion)

that's the basics of it...but, 100% of the time, IF it is GENUINE TY media, it will ALWAYS be made in japan~ many of these smaller brands use other manufacturers to produce their media...and it's OFTEN TIMES sub par or easily labelled as "crap media" :)

i know for a FACT that the "high-speed" branded ones ARE FAKE TYs...among a few others with the TYG02 coding...for REAL ones on those, the TYG02s are the 8x dvd-r format..the hub coding will be of the GG000xxx variety on those for the REAL ones~ :)

hope that clarifies a bit...im too lazy to search for what i had said in the past...but, there you go~ :)

docTY~