Actually they are Memorex!!!!I just bought a spindle of Memorex DVD+Rs and they don't seem to be working. They will play on my cpu but not on my DVD player. I ran Disc Info on it and it said the manufacturer was PRODISC. Has anyone else heard of them and are they any good? What should I do to get them to work better? I've been burning them at 2x but the disc says 16x. The complete disc info is below.....please don't tell me I was ripped off. InfoMedia Information Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Media code/Manufacturer ID PRODISC R04 Media Product Revision Number 04h Format Type UDF 1.02 Volume Name KING_ARTHUR Application id Implementation id DVD Shrink Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 6/10/2005 20:10:17 Format Capacity 4.26GB(4.58GB) Book Type DVD+R Media Type DVD+R Manufacturer Rated Speed Unknown Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps Data area starting sector 30000h Data area end sector 22191Fh Linear Density 0.267um/bit Track Density 0.74um/track Number of Layers 1 Complete Media Code 00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 25 19 1F .............%.. 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 50 52 4F 44 49 53 43 00 52 .......PRODISC.R 00000020 30 34 04 38 23 54 37 0F 02 54 6B 02 94 63 15 15 04.8#T7..Tk..c.. 00000030 0B 0A 08 08 01 1C 1E 0B 0C 12 12 01 00 00 00 00 ................
JJenn74, You should have been around AD long enough to know better than to buy memorex media. Sorry to say, you wasted your money. Do a search on memorex media and look at all the bad reports. Look at peoples sigs as well.
you should have got what your origingal post said....maxell ... i use the the dvd-r & i love them..& i burn them at 4x.
When I purchased them I got in a hurry and picked up the wrong brand. I didn't figure it out until after I posted the question. Dumb mistake on my part I guess. Good news is that some of the discs are actually working ok so far.
You might be ok as you got the better of the evils and got prodisc instead of cmc magnetics. Good luck, hope they continue to work for you. Mort
When you buy Memorex you take a big gamble; because you never know what you are getting. A friend of mind bought the 25 Spindle of Memorex 16x +R when they were on sale at Best Buy a week ago and got MCC004 (oustanding). Another friend picked up a spindle and they were CMC (poor soul) and I picked up a spindle and got the Prodisc R04. These prodiscs have performed well for me but it all depends on your drive and your firmware. I have the NEC 3520A with modified firmware 1.UG. I sincerely believe this firmware would read and burn a tortillo at 16X if I put it in. (Okay, I'm exaggerating). I/ve burned the Prodisc at 16X (just for a test) and it played well and quality was good on my player(a cheap Wal-Mart Emerson). I've been burning the rest at 8X. I don't plan to buy anymore Memorex--no more grab bags for me.
LABOY, Well said. That is the main problem w/ memorex, they buy from several manufactures (mostly cmc mag in the past) and ya never knew what ya had till ya got home and ID'd em. Although I don't have any problems with prodisc's when burned w/ my benq, my litey hates em and I don't usually recommend them due to too many varying results. Mort
if your computer plays them, the issue might just be compatibility between media and dvd player. Does your dvd player play any dvd+r? Do other dvd players play this disc? I'd agree with you got lucky by not getting CMC crap (CMC and CRC go together don't they???), but you may have some of those in the same batch you bought.
I'm burning them with my rebadged Lite-On (DigitalMax), bookmarking them as DVD-ROM and burning at 1X. That seems to be working out okay.
