i know that JVC Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim are prob the best but for price wise which is ok just for burning dvds just to watch once or twice .... ive never really had problems with media even though i thought i did but it was my avi file so ive been using pc line dvd-r(taiwan) from pc world which done ok and phillips dvd-r(taiwan) from the pound shop you get 3 discs in cases for 2 euro so not the worst,,i was also looking at tdk discs and tesco discs and a few others ,,,some were made in india and china but i here japan is prob the best country but then again it doesnt just go by what country , i know this has been posted before but ive read a small bit on it and just need a full answer ,,,good experiences to bad ,,,thanks
http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm TDK can be excellent or extremely bad depending on manufacture site; like you say, any made in Japan are good, use Verbatim made with AZO dye (on spindle wrapper or insert), know nothing of Tesco.
Since hdd's are so cheap these days i rip & burn movies to dvd then create avi or mkv & store them on multiple hdd's (two hdd's mirrored in case of hdd failure )if a media disc ever stuffs up (not that i need to use a media disc since the movie is already stored in avi container)it won't matter for the same reason & that i have it in a container it's then just a matter of creating a dvd from said container Edit: avi or mkv is of coarse smaller than original dvd & may lack some quality if it was a crap movie..lol..
i don`t need the discs for my own viewing cos i just hook up my laptop to tv and watch it on vlc player but its just for the family and im looking to get a portable external hard drive multimedia player to store all my files on it , hopefully i find one that accepts most formats including , avi/divx....vob,iso and ifo and many others for all my pictures music etc.. it would be easier if my sister has a laptop and not an apple macbook cos nothing seems to work with it , it has its own firewalls that its hard to even download on, not my cup of tea
XBMC is free for all OS platforms there's a portable version too i think,once setup correctly you'll have bitmaps & plots to scroll thru similar to dvd profiler type software sort of,xbmc will do your pictures as well,as for multimedia hdd can't comment on em since any comp with the correct codec etc can play or view anything regardless of format http://xbmc.org/
I use IMC blanks.I get a write error in about 1 in 10 discs but they are $8 for 50 cd-r and $12 for 50 blank Dvd-r.I did use TDK once because they were reduced $2 for 10 (years ago) and they had a blurred mark on the top of each disc (retangular shape blurred mark) the reason they were reduced.The TDK seemed to work fine and ive still got a few of them with music on them.some are scratched (now)but they still work reasonably well.cheap media will probably get more errors than top brands.depends if you consider quantity or quality more important.I use cheap media and aslong as the disc doesnt get scratched or get a write error during burning seems fine to me.
