hobbit why did you have to go an do that to me i love my dell. lol it was in the price range .... but i do like mce and xp. i wanted something else either a gateway or hp but gw was out of my reach and hp was lacking a few items.... i am still in the air with my hauppage card (mce 500 kit)...grrrr . i love it with mce but using it with wintv is another story...
I've done a few burns (300+) on the Valueline and never had a problem caused from the disc, JUST me doing something wrong. I've also used both Premium and Valueline with the results NOT worth mentioning. To inconsistent as far as which one has the better scan, benchmark or playback to make a difference in my opinion. As herrick has said docTY and JoeRyan are the authorities in this arena but there are a few of us that can at least comment from our limited experience. I think that binkie7 could shed some light as well, she does quite a few burns herself. And of course aabbccdd has done his share of burning on valueline. @born2ride, The TYG02 code as link TYG03 code as link ...gm
dont wanna double post so i will just leave this link to the scan thread. just did a 8x+r TY this is actually one of the last 3 samples i got from TY when i requested a sample pack.(got 10 of them)not sure if it is a value or premium..i'd say its a value line just for the fact its free and a sample..... take a look and see... http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/540688/3348364
I have burned about 1500 TY valueline printables and they have been very reliable. If you get them from SMS any that are not good can be returned with full payment and no questions asked. You just have to call and get a return number from them.
Well both my benq1650s love 8X TY T02s(+Rs). I still have many left and would buy more if I could find them. They also love the 16X Verbs +Rs. BCIC firmware. I have yet to have a coaster with a TY T02 so far as I can remember.
Thanks Chris, I'll check them out. My wife thinks I have enough as it is. Yesterday in Sam's, I was looking at some Sony's to see if any of the 8X were left-no- and she let me know. Edit: BTW, Best Buy has Verbatim +R DL 20 for $29.99 this week. And Sony +Rs 100 for $22.99
Txs greensman for dragging me in Yeah I do a lot of burns but I've never tried the value line - I always get the premium line. So no experience with the value line at all. From what my old memory remembers the value line just don't meet Taiyo Yuden high standards and are they consider them their 2nd rate media. Even what they consider their 2nd rate media is better then what some companies consider their 1st media I think somewhere in the 1st Taiyo thread the doc went into what that diff in standards was.
binkie7 You are correct in the First thread Doc did get in the immortal words between Premium and Value line I believe around the Benq era.My first purchase was Premium and after the Docs take on Valueline thats all I've used since. I know at the time burning and comparing and scanning whether from Plex tool or Nero the results if any difference at all would've been very minor for me to stay with the Valuelines over the premium.I buy all printables and +R. The only coasters if any would have been my doing. Chris I also think Ty's 2nd rate standard matches or beats first class standard on my other media
also with the premium-line your paying for the cake boxes there in compared to the value-line in tape wrap
Alphabet man if you do decide to off them 716's if their not promised out already let me know.Started using the other 2 Benqs as readers and brought out the other 2 new ones as burners.I guess i'm a plexy at heart. Was it brobear that was the Plextor man? Bye Adriana Chris
I already had the slot drive was a 2 week drive for me.I know somebody else had problems with the slot drive thought it was brobear.Thats when I picked up the other 716 internals. The external Plex 716 was the first drive I picked up and bought a bunch of other drives to do the NERO scan to keep up with the masters back then just to see where my burns were compared to theirs.Then I found out which drives would do Nero and bought the Benq 1620.Sure miss them guys. Chris
LOL. YOu don't know abcd very well do you. LOL. He's a PLEXY man all the way. @ abcd!! I have the Pioneer 112D@Pioneer DVR-112L 8.21 and like it pretty well. I just ordered a LG GSA-H62NK and Sammy SH-203B tho. LOL. I wanted SATA and from what I read these 2 were the best out right now. I guess I will see tho. ...gm btw these NEW drives are for all this TY media I have laying around waiting for me to burn it and show off some decent Nero scans. ^^^^^^^Had to stay near TOPIC somehow. hehehe. edit: put the wrong model #, I think their right now....
speaking of all this TY media laying around..lol been burning alot more of the 8x+r TY's this drive(LH-18A1P) is starting to really shine with this media. getting ready for work now. might have a scan in the morning of one on the 8x+r TY.
