This Old Princo

[hech54]

Check out this old Princo disc:
Pre-recorded Information:
Manufacturer ID: PRINCO
Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 5:41:50 PM is the creation date....and it still works.

[disturbed1]

I have a couple of these as well.

[zenzen1]

All the big dramas on how Princo was the worst blank media to ever hit the streets.
"Don't even buy them for your mother-in-law".
Yeah right !!! I purchased several cartons of them around 5 years ago (the ones with the milk-white tops) and to this day, they are all still working perfectly. No screen glitches, no dye blotches. I am in the process of transferring my vast DVD collection onto Media Player HDDs, and the Princos never fail. Can't say that about some of the other brands !!!

[lordsmurf]

Once the burns are made -- they tend to be fine.
Getting a good burn, however, was the problem. These discs usually failed while burning, although after-burn errors were common past 2GB.

[hech54]

(the ones with the milk-white tops) and to this day, they are all still working perfectly.

This one is also one of those. I still have the burner that burned it too...an LG 4040B.

[ROBERT BLACK]

I have many boxed white top Princos from 2003 that play just fine. All that drama and they've outlived half my first gen Prodiscs. Like zenzen1 I've transferred them to HDD without incident.

[hech54]

I wouldn't brag about Prodisc either...

[ROBERT BLACK]

I wouldn't brag about Prodisc either...

Prodisc before the crappy F1s were considered 2nd class media at the time and by virtue should have lasted longer if the burn was good and the discs properly stored. The only true gauge for disc longevity beyond 2 years is a time machine. I even have old Riteks G03s that have lasted. I still wouldn't use any media below 1st grade just in case anyone was wondering if I endorsed any of the low grade crap out there today. Some of these CMC discs make Princo look like Verbatim.

[lordsmurf]

Prodisc was a great media back in 2003-2005, but it's still quite decent in 2009 --
--- better than Ritek, CMC, and so much of the other crap easily found.

I think Prodisc's main manufacturing is mostly on behalf of Verbatim now.
You don't see much of their discs aside from Prodisc branded online sales.
It's been quite a while since I saw PRODISC IDs in branded media in stores.

[hech54]

I've got Ritek discs older than the above mentioned Princo that were made in my Philips DVDR985 recorder that still play flawlessly.

[Bix]

The one or two plain white Princos I have that I burnt in my old Pansonic DMR-E30 recorder still work fine.

The quality seemed to get worse with the discs that had text printed on them (the ones where you could see the backwards text through the data side). I recall that they played okay for a week or two and then went to hell, freezing all over the place.

It's a good thing that price isn't the issue that it was back then.

As far as Prodisc, the S03s (I think...their initial 4x discs) were great. When they started selling MCC coded discs (and did anyone ever figure out what went happened there?) they went to hell for me and would never finish burning. I had problems with Memorex branded Prodiscs that my sister bought later on, too. I wrote them off as being flukes like the Ritek G03s.