Best place to buy Taiyo Yudens?

there's 3 places that seem to sell authentic TY's:
www.supermediastore.com
www.rima.com
www.meritline.com

i checked resellerratings.com on these 3, and meritline and supermediastore have the worst score with the worst feedback.
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2551.html
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1331.html
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1639.html

rima seems to be the cheapest.

anyone buy from rima before? are they genuine ty's?

 

i would not buy from online and dont trust rima they game me cmc mag taiyo yudens.

 

CMC mag Taiyo yudens??? I don't think so... maybe what you got are fakes, in which case they're not taiyo yudens. What's the media code on them?

 

if it's real TY's, media code should be TY-0 something

rima's the cheapest of the 3. they seem legit. reading the ratings on resellerratings.com. everyone's got real ty's

 

well must have some bad bastard that was having a bad day and thought he would be smart and give me fakies.

ihaveabu remember u only get for what u pay for?

best lesson in life

if u see shoes in the sale at jjb sports dont go near them (get my drift)

 

well, rima's price is $1-2 less than supermediastore and meritline.
so it's not much different

 

do what u please

 

anyone else buy from rima?

 

anyone?

 

That'll fill you in on the basics;

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

These are a list of decent mdia suppliers;

http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/buyerguides/buymedia.htm

I live in England and so get mine from SVP and not a single bad TY to date.

Here I'm 99% sure that these will be official TY's as they are made in Japan and media ID is TYG01, a while back when I was looking for authentic TY's someone pointed me in the direction to these however as I live in England it would be far too expensive for shipping cost.

http://www.meritline.com/taiyo-yuden-4x-dvd-r-media-silver-lacquer.html

PS If it says [bold]made in Japan[/bold] then it most definately will be authentic, I'v heard a couple of horror stories about Supermediastore but never Rima or Meritline

 

Also if you view the image below the stack of TY's there is a batch of boxes that all say [bold]made in Japan[/bold], now I'm 110% sure that these are TY's (your lucky we can only get 8x and 16x in England also it costs around £30 for 100 unbranded TY's)

PS Unbranded means there hasnt been any third party involved in the process from goods getting made to goods received.

 

what are all the authentic ty media codes?
i'm thinking of buying this:
http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merch...de=R&Product_Code=1736-50&Category_Code=DMRTY

the media code is TYG02

 

To be honest m8 I really don't know whether they are authentic or not however Im sure they do accept returns. When you purchase 8x DVD-R Taiyo Yuden if you open up the cake tub and take a disc out on the inner rim there will be an identification code laser etched (very small so you might need glasses) and if they are real it will say GG000***.

Please note this only applies to 8x DVD-R as I don't know about any of the other formats.

Heres a scan I did with my Taiyo Yudens (I'v had better days)

 

for some reason my nero won't let me do that
i get error messages when i try to run quality tests

prob cuz i have a crappy dvd burner

 

Yeh my other burner (samsung SH-W162C) won't let me do a disc quality test either.

 

so yes or no? buy from rima?

 

Just a quickie here.... What is the concensus as far as + or - T.Y.? Do most people prefer one or the other format?
Thanks a bunch...

 

- is better for ps2. + u can booktype if u have a booktype-able burner.

i can't booktype so i get -



so rima or no rima?

 

Many thanks... I better stick with + as I format it to ROM. Thank you again; I am still learnin' here....

 

I always use -R as my PS2 won't take +R, Im not saying I'd buy from Rima as they do not clearly state whether they are made in Japan. Personally if it was me and I lived in America I would go for the Meritline link I gave you as you can clearly see in the last picture that they are made in Japan and it also says so on the description.

However if you buy from either and it turns out that they are not authentic they are very big companies so should give you a refund.