Yeah in the US maybe, over here in Australia things are different buddy. DL's are still expensive as hell. I've seen DL's over here from Verbatim @ 4-8X speed, and elsewhere, the latest revisions are definitely faster I'm sure. And by normal sized I mean most regular folks, with their non-HDTV, CRT, 68-80cm television sets won't be able to tell one from the other. Your right, if you do include extras and the movie has a runtime of around 2hrs or more than you can see some noticeable artifacts and compression, but most of the time though who bothers with extras?
you are correct, 8x DL media does exist, but you have to look pretty hard to find it. While you might be *almost* correct about not being able to notice a difference on a 30 inch television, why settle for that now knowing that eventually you are going to have a bigger television and be upset you took the shortcut a few years back? I know alot of people who want to include the extras when they backup their dvd's, why shouldn't they? and lastly, since this site spans worldwide, try not to assume what is applicable in Austrailia also applies in the rest of the world with regards to pricing and such.
Verbatim DVD+R DL on Sale this week Best Buy has 20 packs of the latest Dual Layer Media on Sale for $29.99 this week. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7642562&type=product&id=1134697746286 Thse can be burned easily and with great results at 4x with the right burner. I do and they come out Great!
If you can, I would be checking out where they are made. Those spindles made in Singapore are disappearing, & a lot of them now are showing up as made in India.
Soup is correct on the Singapore Verb DLs. READ the labels guys and gals cause I've seen the Made in India Verb DLs at my Best Buy.
Totally Agree on the made in Singapore. I won't buy any Made In India. At about $1.50 per disc, this is a Deal! All the ones I have seen at my Best Buy have been Singapore made. But, look at label before buying. Member JoeRyan says Made in India are very good, but I know what works for me, I intend to stick with it. By The way, I edited my post about the qty. on Sale. My Bad.
I have not, however, I know for fact that Verbatims made in Taiwan (DVD5) or Singapore( DVD+R DL ) for that matter burn well and have consistent high quality. My Opinion, if you know it works, stick with it. Why risk it? We work too hard for our money to waste it on possible inconsistent media quality.
Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've never used MII, has anyone found them to be inferior? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had my local computer store order a 20 pk spindle from NCIX (saved me the shipping cost)when it was on sale for $19.99 CAD. I had hoped for MIS but unfortunately was MII. My one burner refused to write to the MII, even though it had previously wrote to the MIS. They were both Verbatim 2.4X DL. In fact, I tried a MIS next and it was fine. Go figure? Perhaps Joe can explain this one? Rather than waste discs trying to figure out why, I tried in my LG 4163 burner, they worked. BTW. Out of 20 MII, at least 6 discs had visible blemishes on the dye. Poor quality control, if you ask me.
Res2cue, I'm finding it very difficult to find the MIS DL. During one sale, only 1 out of 3 FutureShops in my area had MIS, and I had to look for them. They were stashed behind other brands. Look for sales at the Source, they regularly have 3pks in jewel cases on sale for $4.99 CAD.
alrighty, I have a $40 gift certificate for both Staples and Future shop burning a hole in my pocket though. :/ They will probably get spent on the next 100 spindle of verbs for $19.99 though, a 25 pack of DL last me a long long time.
I just got back from OfficeMax, and they had 3 MIS packages left. They pricematched the Best Buy $29.99 for the pack of 20, so I bought 2. Best Buy had the newer packaging, and they were ALL MII. OfficeMax had the older packaging and all were MIS.
krl23, Thanks for the information, hopefully will help others in the USA. Unfortunately, both Res2cue and I are in Canada. AFAIK, Best Buys in Canada do not carry Verbatim, at least not on their websites. I have neither a Best Buy or an Office Max in my area.
only the new MII Verbatim at my BB. Didn't even bother picking them up. I didn't have a good experience with them last time I bought them from MicroCenter.
Hmmm interesting... Here in Australia all we have are MIS Verbatims. Maybe coz shipping them in from Singapore costs less I dunno? I looked at a few stores, virtually every pack of Verbatims was MIS.
Your probably right, there were like pack's upon pack's stacked wall to wall on the shelves lol... Guess this is a prime opportunity
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