Office Depot .. 25 Maxell R $9.99 15 Maxell RW $9.99 (might be Philips made) Best Buy .. 50 FujiFilm R $17.99 25 Verbatim R $9.99 10 Verbatim DL $19.99
Thanks for the info catfreak, do you know if those Verbs at Best Buy the movie reel disks? I am definitely getting those DL's.
i may go with those dvd+r maxells at office depot. the dvd+r with the silver tops are made in japan. the dvd-r with the gold tops are taiwan
The Verbs at Best Buy are NOT the 'Movie Reel' discs ... And, you gotta look for the MIJ Maxell discs .. HOWEVER, the WORST Verbatim is still better than the BEST of anything else That's my personal opinion and if you try to beat it out of me, you're gonna get hoit
In my opinion, the BEST Verbatims .. With my BenQ, I get incredible scans with the +R !^x ... (I want more, but I already have approx 425 of 'em)
i ordered me some of these too to try out on my new epsonr200 printer http://www.supermediastore.com/verbatim-8x-dvd-r-white-inkjet-hub-printable-94854-rebate.html
The sale at Staples is still going on. I managed to find four of the #30 spindles of Fuji DVD-R 8x MIJ for $8.94 each. Yes, they did ID as TY. The #100 slim DVD cases for $8.94 are a bargin as well.
josephga: Those maxells at office depot will come from both taiwan and japan for both the plus silver tops and dash 8x gold tops. The maxell 8x from taiwan are all ritek,still very good. The spindles that say made in japan are hitachi! Office depot likes to place Made in Japan stickers over where Made in Japan is on the outer shrink wrapper. They also have the maxell full hub inkjet printables. Office depot has some great sales on them once in a while,so keep your eye on the sale fliers. The maxell +8x full hubs are coded Maxell-002-00 and made by Hitachi.
That's way too much. Try Super wal-mart. They have the maxell full hub printables,spindles of 25 for $15-$16. I thought that was high. Office depot has a maxell sale,buy 1/get 1 free every month or so. They are definitely cheaper during that sale. I haven't really checked out this weeks flier yet,since staples has plenty of those fuji ty's that are 1 minute drive from my home.
Went through about 30-40 +R, found only 3 MIJ. Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO Media code/Manufacturer ID YUDEN000T02 Media Product Revision Number 00h Format Capacity Blank Disc Free Blocks 405405696 Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB) Book Type DVD+R Media Type DVD+R Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 22160KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps Linear Density Blank Disc Track Density Unknown Number of Layers 1 Complete Media Code 00000000 01 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.? 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 59 55 44 45 4E 30 30 30 54 .......YUDEN000T 00000020 30 32 00 38 23 54 37 10 02 4E 72 02 8C 63 16 16 02.8#T7..Nr..c.. 00000030 0B 0B 0A 0A 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................
good stuff tiburon~ wow, you went through THAT many spindles to find only 3 MIJ~ seems like YOUR local stores are even MORE scarce than MINE~ well, at least you know you got the "good ones", congrats~ now if only i could get those darn Verb DLs for $19.99...grrrr *grumble*
Thanks, they had a BIG display of the media, you should have seen the looks that I got. The DLs were no where to be found.
i couldnt find a single box of fuji dvd+r made in japan at my local best buy store...i did however see 1 box that was made in japan but it was dvd-r...i guess i'll look again soon. How are the verbatim they have on sale? i saw those were also made in taiwan! Now i know why so many of you stock up when you see good media on sale...hard to find the good stuff
@mord, the MIJ Fuji 8x dvd-r are ALSO Taiyo Yuden made~! TYG02 is the media ID coding and these are EXCELLENT MEDIA~! also, regarding the Verbatims, MOST if not ALL of them nowadays are MADE IN TAIWAN, NOTHING wrong with that at all~ the general rule of thumb DOES not hold true with Verbatims~ you can NOT equate MIJ=good stuff, and MIT=crappy media~ at least NOT with Verbatim, and in my opinion, RITEK as well~ the MCC coded Verbatims MIT are GREAT STUFF, see my signature, also, RITEKS are ALL made in TAIWAN and they are good quality too, IN MY OPINION of course~ so, good luck if you do go back and pick that Fuji MIJ dvd-r spindle up, if i were you, i would have grabbed it and ran to the cashier~ LOL
I just came from Best Buy. They have the 10 packs of Verbatim DL's, but they're $62.99. I had them scan them just to make sure. No dice... Gonna check on Best Buy online.
