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I know that feeling very well - the only discs I can use with confidence are TDK, Sony and Datawrite Reds. Everything else is hit and miss.

I bought some PC-World DVD+RW's a couple of years ago and am still using them for backup of PC. Out of 25 discs only one has failed after a lot of use, that was a month ago with check sum error on read.

They're also selling a 320GB external USB2 Toshiba Disc drive for ?130. I nearly bought one yesterday, but don't really have a need for that sort of storage.

they are good but hardly worth 22.50 when ritek silver/white printable are now outing at 18 x 100 and with such low christmas sales im told mid jan will see ritek at 15 to clear
malc

An awfull lot of these cheapy DVD's are out of spec.
your machine may not write to them, another machines may not read them.
I used to work for a big Japanese consumer electrronics company, and the policy was stick to brand name stuff, verbatim, TDK, panasonic etc.
If there for mass copy or commercial use then I cant advise.

If you look on some forums you'll find a lot of discussion on the general subject of which makes are best. It seems the problem is knowing who made them in the first place not whose label is on them. You can only be sure by putting one in your 'puter and using software to give you the answer. But then you have to buy one to get the info.
The concensus seems to be, those made in Japan are best and of those Taiyo Yuden are top quality.

Mart

I thought they were a good price too, (BTW extremely busy in the Crawley PC world on WED.). But I didn't buy them.

I have had soooo... many problems with DVD media.

I used to have a Liteon 5045 DVD recorder and HDD and that was terrible trying to find what worked in it. Then the bloody machine stopped recognizing the discs it had recorded on before. So I swapped it for a Sony 510 and after a few months that has started throwing up Disc is dirty problems on NEW DVD's, so that is away for repair at the moment.

I only use branded media Philips DVD-r and DVD+r 1x8 and Sony.

I am hoping that when the Sony is repaired it will still read the 50 plus DVD's that I recorded on it. I think if they had been on the cheepy media I might be even more worried.

So if your recordings are important I would not cut corners with the media.

PC

firstly never buy dvds of the net because what you order may not be what you get unless of course you buy from . secondly have a chat with your local pc shop guy who will get you discs at bang on money. thirdly get your local free adds and find your local pc fair and rape it. finaly and only if desperate yea but no but yea but, buy dvds from pc world maplins or staples but as i said only if desperado.
malc