I just got a spool of 50 Verbatim and Sony disks. the Verbs are MCC made in Taiwan, while the Sony is made in Japan by Taiyo Yuden! Here's something interesting....on the label of the Verbs it says, "up to 12x compatible" when these disks are 8x! I used both disks last night flawlessly burning at 4X. Very high quality disks! I usually only get TYs but I couldn't resist the pricing of 19.95 for 50 Verbs! The Sony was higher and I never had them so I wanted to buy them anyways. Glad I did! Now if the DLs would just go lower.... guess we will have to wait for the Blue-Ray and HD-DVD to come out and drive the pricing down!
@IHoe - glad youy've eased off the TY a little and sampled the quality of Verbs!. i've just ordered some more - 125 8x Verbs and 25 16x as i hadn't tried any 16x yet
Creaky..... I had Verbs before, 3 yrs ago! their manufacture ID was RicohJpn then! And I had some sony's back then too, but just had like a 3 pack of them! the Sony's are TYs! LOL I guess I like them that much better! ahahhahahaha still on the TY kick! But these disks are top shelf! and burning at 4x now should make them last 30-100 yrs like they should! right????? let's hope!
oh yeah i remember you saying that you'd used Verbs before. It's cus you look to be as bad as me, ie posting-crazy. i often chase my own tail in threads as i've always got so many on the go
I honestly don't expect any media to last more then 15 years. But then again we are all technology freaks and would never stay with any medium that long lol. Soon we will all be upgrading to dual layer then to what ever 20 gig plus format they decide on....either hd disk or blue ray.
http://www.videointerchange.com/dvd.htm#DVD just scroll down this page and it talks about DVD longevity! Very interesting stuff! Creaky.... I alway chase tail!!!! ;-)!
Just noticed this by scanning Verb DVD+R. The manufacturer says Verbatim, the code is MCC. Does that mean its manufactured by MCC? I'm confused now.
MCC are top quality manufacturers. MCC (Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation) is the parent company of MKM (Mitsubishi Kagaku Media), which in turn is the parent company of Verbatim.
Alrite I see, has anyone gotten any Verb DVD's that are manufactured by other than MCC and MKC? Maybe Verb DVD CMC made?
I haven't. I understand that the MCC Verbs are being made in a CMC plant, but to MCC standards. The only Verbs that I've gotten that were not MCC were CDs. Dave
3 yrs ago I used Verbatim disks that are Ricohjpn ........ they are still good today and not bad..... but today they are even Better! MCC is great disks!!!!! Creaky...... did you know that I found Verbatim disks at Best Buy that has VideoGuard!(supposed to be 40 times more scratch resistant than regular media!) Did you try these out? it is still MCC but can it even be better.... LIFE TIME GUARANTEE???
Heh, so MCC Verbatim are being made in CMC plants but to MCC standards. So your saying that MCC can be making Verbs in CMC plants as long as it upholds its quality eh? That explains my 50 pack spool of Verb CD-R, Mitsubishi as manufacturer, but the media code is similar to those CD-R made by CMC as the manufacturer o_0; That videoguard looks interesting too , they should have it on all disc XD.
I'm sorry..... MCC is Mitsubishi Chemical Company........ CMC is a different manufacture! they are NOT the same! Verbatim is MCC ...... one of the best disks you can buy........ CMC is one of the worst you can buy! I haven't seen Verbatim DVD+Rs or DVD-Rs to be CMC..... have you?????? If MCC is making Verbatim in it's plants.... how could CMC make MCC????? CMC has it's own plants..... you mean that CMC bought out MCC????? what you said doesn't make sense!
CMC hasn't bought out MCC. I have no proof, but have read in several forums that CMC is making the MCC discs in Taiwan using MCC dye and equipment. They use the MCC code and are not the same thing as your run of the mill CMC. I read someplace that someone said they heard this from a Verbatim rep. Of course I could be wrong. I imagine Japanese companies would farm out their work overseas for the same reason American companies do-cheaper labor. Most large companies will do anything to save a nickle. They don't care if it puts most of their employees out of work as long as it's cheaper. Anything for the almighty dollar, or yen in this case. Dave
Thats the problem with CD-R's and DVD-R's these days, if cheap people would just cease and stop having bad OEM's manufacturer their products (Memorex), then it would be a better world for us media people. Of course we would pay more to get media that will last, not pay and have media that will last you a good 3 months at most. Right now, I heard that 75% of media comes from Taiwan, and a good percentage of that media is made by CMC Magnetics, which is becoming more and more popular nowadays. Bottomline, get rid of CMC and have better OEM's manufacturer quality product that will last. I have living proof right in front of me, a Verbatim Data Life Plus burnt in 2001, its so unreadable it froze my computer just to trying to read the files on it. I think you can guess what manufacturer .
IHoe - that sounds good, the videoguard thing. As it happens i'd only just noticed how easy it is to scratch recordable DVDs. I'm normally very very careful handling them but this time i wasn't looking and saw how easily i'd scratched one. I was appalled at how easy it was to damage, as opposed to a pressed, original DVD. They are taking the p***, charging for something that should be in ALL discs as standard.
