Hi everyone, need to get some DVD+/-R's and have come across a 100pk tuff disc 8x for around £12. I want to use them for PS2 backups, and was wondering if any other members have used them? It's either them or a 50pk of vertabims for a pound less. Bear in mind I'm kinda broke so the cheaper option soudns appealing. But if they won't even play then it's no point. Any opinions, reviews? Oh and I saw the review by cd-rw.org, they said they were "surprise spindles" so a all sorts of manufacturers could be found in a single spindle. Any good or not?

A5hX- while I'm not very familiar with burning Ps-2 Backups I mainly back up my movies ! I would err on the side of caution and go with verbatim Vs. The unknown TuffDisc were it me !

yeah i would't chance them get the Verbatims

I've heard bad things about Tuff disc. Simply because you never know what brand of media you'll get. If you are going to use any type of DVD in a PS2 please, for the sake of your laser and its L.A., chip use only Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden. I fried my PS2's L.A. chip from putting too much strain on the laser when it was trying to read a crappy disc. I only use first class media these days in my consoles and stand alone players.

i heard Ritek was ok to for backing up PS2 games

lol You guys will be happy to hear I tracked down a bargain here in the UK: a 100pk of Verbatims DVD-R for £19.99! Needless to say I will be snapping them up today.
Also on another site, they were offering a 100pk of TY's for £26 inc p&p. Good discs it's just why spend the extra £6 when the verbs will do just fine (i hope!).

A5hX- Taiyo Yudens & Verbatims are Regarded as the best of the best media wise ! and being you show the prices in £'s as opposed to $ US - you may even get the best of Both worlds ? Verbatims made By taiyo Yuden -for Verbatim !!! Like Creaky Does ! Either way I don't think you'll go wrong !!!- here's a link from the esteemed creaky- good luck !!!!
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/229523

hehe my Spidey senses could tell there was a mention of 'ultra sexy Verbatim Taiyo Yuden' here :)

..and as to Tuff discs, here's some more info - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/560061

creaky- your everywhere !!! & if you were'nt such a good guy that would be Creepy intstead of Creaky LOL!!!!!!!!!!

i am everywhere; and thanks LOL :)

creaky- well now that's just showing off now LOL! Well it would be if we did'nt see the part that says stock Photo !!!!! cheers buddy !!!

Hiyas! I don't know about Tuff 8x discs but I recently bought TuffDisc 16x DVD+R packet... and I heard they are mainly print-ons on dvds of pretty crappy quality. So far I have tried burning them with many different options and settings and I aggree: the dvds are crappy.

Then, I decided to break a dvd. And guess what I found between the dye/coating layers: "Is it live or is it Memorex" and the Memorex dvd logo... LOL

Here's a suitable movie to put on those discs then -

Nice pic Creaky.

Lol!

Haha, yer right, creaky. THAT movie would suit those disks more than fine XD