are these the good ritek's?

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  1. larrabee

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    larrabee, Jul 6, 2004
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    Those are the good ones.
     
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    Yes those are the Grade A looks like the branded package. Nice price to I would pick them up.
     
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    Those are blanks with the RED wrapper. Are these better than the PURPLE wrapped 50 pack??? I just received two 25 packs (I ordered a 50 pack) of the Shiny silver in which I've yet to try. Actually I haven't opened the box yet in the event I might exchange them.
     
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    larrabee,
    Although the Ritek 50 bundle I bought from Newegg was DVD+ I just want to make a comment on the quality of the red packaged types. There has been some discussion on the boards stating the purple wrapped ones may be repackaged disks that were returned from a huge shipment to Office Depot, I don't know for a fact if it's true or not, others did mention it was safe to buy the red labeled ones to which I did.

    I checked the disks with DVDInfoPro and below are results:

    Media Information
    Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
    Media code/Manufacturer ID RICOHJPNR01
    Media Product Revision Number 02h
    Free Blocks 405405696
    Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
    Book Type DVD+R
    Media Type DVD+R
    Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
    Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
    Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
    Data area starting sector 30000h
    Linear Density 0.267um/bit
    Track Density 0.74um/track
    Number of Layers 1

    When I opened the cake box I noticed the entire lot had what appeared to be glue around all the outside edges, very rough looking compared to other media I have that all had clean smooth edges.
    In all fairness though, I have burned about half of the pack with no coasters and they all play well in both the computer and several desktop DVD players.


    How they will perform in a year or so is another unanswered question.
     
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    sheethead, Jul 15, 2004
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