great deal on 8x DVD-R only @67 from www.shop4tech.com

[sai]

just got my first 100 pcs 8x dvd-r, and here is my testing result from Nero scan surface, and also here is a MID information on this Matrix media. Anyone else had bought some of this Matix 8x DVD-R media from www.shop4tech.com, if you do have some, please share your feedback!!!
By the way, I had burn these discs on Pioneer 107 for only 8 min. with the master of 4.35GB

http://www.shop4tech.com/user.htm?go=vi ... ;s_cata=88


Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG02
Format Capacity Not Formatted
Free Blocks 411107328
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed Unknown
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 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 08
2x Speed OPC power 0E
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 13
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 0E 07
4x Write Strategy field 2 97 07 0D 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 18
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 85 78 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 D6 89 A8 92 01 20
4x Write Strategy field 6 10 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

 

[RobCur]

that is too much for 8x media maybe 35-40 would make more sense

 

[Pinan]

Originally posted by: RobCur
that is too much for 8x media maybe 35-40 would make more sense

You're kidding right? Too much for 100 8x DVD's? Where have you seen it for $35-$40??

Maybe 4x that will burn at 8x, but 8x? OK

 

[nero2]

Originally posted by: Pinan

Originally posted by: RobCur
that is too much for 8x media maybe 35-40 would make more sense

You're kidding right? Too much for 100 8x DVD's? Where have you seen it for $35-$40??

Maybe 4x that will burn at 8x, but 8x? OK

Seriously. Even though you can get quality 4x@8x media for less, there are those of us whose burners won't let us burn @ 8x on 4x media. The cheapest I've found is ~1/disc for Ritek R03s from Newegg.

 

[Drakkon]

i always buy the 1x-2x white thermals from shop4tech and they work great for me...i dont mind spending a few extra minutes buring for a dvd that works on every player i have put it in and the ability to put labels on them with nothing showing through yay for shop4tech

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: RobCur
that is too much for 8x media maybe 35-40 would make more sense

For some crap matrix or supermedia. I'll keep burning and chugging alond with my Ritek G04's thanks anyway.

 

[nufan292]

Well from the media id, it suggests that the discs are made by taiyo yuden. Unless they are fake.

 

[estew33]

Originally posted by: nufan292
Well from the media id, it suggests that the discs are made by taiyo yuden. Unless they are fake.

Hello,
Are you positive that's who oem's these disk
Thanks
ED

 

[Pinan]

I wondered about that when I saw this:

"Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG02"

If they're real, how bad could they be? Thought once I bought some "Sony" DVD's from PC club that turned out to be absolute junk.

 

[Belzer]

Originally posted by: nufan292
Well from the media id, it suggests that the discs are made by taiyo yuden. Unless they are fake.

They're fake for sure. Several manufacturers are known to have started production of 8x DVD-R media using Taiyo Yuden's disc id as they don't get any 8x support for their (usually crap) discs by some drive manufacturers. The market will soon be flooded with cheap fake 8x "OEM Taiyo Yuden" DVD-Rs...

 

[estew33]

Originally posted by: Belzer

Originally posted by: nufan292
Well from the media id, it suggests that the discs are made by taiyo yuden. Unless they are fake.

They're fake for sure. Several manufacturers are known to have started production of 8x DVD-R media using Taiyo Yuden's disc id as they don't get any 8x support for their (usually crap) discs by some drive manufacturers. The market will soon be flooded with cheap fake 8x "OEM Taiyo Yuden" DVD-Rs...

Are you able to back up that statement. I'm sure TY would be all over any manufacture who put their name on a product without their prior approval.
Seems to me that TY would also know about something like that before the general public, also seems to me that TY would contact the resellers and let them know they will not take kindly them selling a fraudulent product
Ed

 

[Z80]

I'm starting to suspect that shop4tech is seeding this forum with hot deal posts in order to sell more of their products.

 

[harryd]

Originally posted by: Z80
I'm starting to suspect that shop4tech is seeding this forum with hot deal posts in order to sell more of their products.

You know, that thought crossed my mind. I bought some longten dvd media back in April after reading so much positive feedback on them. They turned out to be very bad. 4 out of 5 have read errors. They are pretty much useless. They burn ok, that doesn't mean anything. Luckily i didn't lose any important data to them. Also, Shoptech was supposed to credit $5 to my acct which they never did.

 

[sai]

if this product is bad, check it out this link from what other said. And if there had problem from what we are buying from them, we could easly call to credit card company and request chargeback on the charge right! By the way, by using hacker firmware to burn 4x media as 8x could easily hurt your drive, and also create more chances on skipping and lost data on play back!


http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226063

 

[B0RED0M]

I've used the 4x Matrix -R's for burning data, mostly Xvid Tv episodes, I play them on a Philips 642 dvd player, and it never skips and always detects the disc. Never got any coasters from them either, except once while burning my computer just randomly restarted (love it when that happens), however, a friend of mine used it to burn digital video and said that it skips a lot on his dvd player, but never had a problem with data.

:beer:

 

[sai]

I will tell your friend to try with different player because dvd-r media it does have competibility problem some time with those "old players"