BEWARE.....STAY AWAY FROM MEMOREX DVD-R

[Sky King]

I have just recorded my SECOND coaster thanks to the inferior quality exhibited by the Memorex brand.
I'm sure most of you knew enough to stay from this brand before my post. but I just wanted to remind you that Memorex is not a good product. I unknowingly bought a 5 pack of Memorex DVD-R's when I purchased my Panasonic DMR E-30 in December. I thought Memorex was a decent brand as I had used Memorex products for years with no problems....boy was I wrong !!! Of the 5 discs, one recorded decently. The rest either couldn't be finalized like my latest effort today, or they pixillated badly and froze up toward the end of the disc after finalizing.
I am trying to record onto DVD some pretty old 8mm videotape and I don't want to have to keep trying over and over to achieve this.
I have decided to now use, after reading the many posts here, Samsung Beall discs. I hope for better luck with this brand.

[energy80s]

Memtech (Memorex) are a Portugese company and are renound for crap quality video and audio tapes. I wouldn't touch their DVDRs at all. Then again they probably don't make them anyway, just "badge engineer" someone else's product. When I was running my own video company in the late 1980's there were only 7 blank video tape manufacturers in the world! All the different brands you see in the shops came from these companies! I would imagine that DVDRs would be similar in that a few companies make all the discs in the world and they are just sold under a variety of names.

[Karate Media]

energy80s

Wow...I have been using Memorex CDRs for quite sometime and have felt that they were incredibly reliable, and haven't bought another brand since. I know this is a little off-topic, but is there serious reason to turn my back on Memorex CD-Rs (and possibly tansfer all that data to a new brand of CD-R -- or DVDR, for that matter)?

(BTW- I do not use Memorex DVDR media, but only b/c I had read that it wasn't very compatible w/ my Sony 500UL)

[MOVIEGEEK]

Memorex(Infodisc) media is garbage!I bought a 5-pack of CD-R/W and 4 were unreadable after writing once.I have never used their DVD media but I assume it would be just as bad.

[gcutler]

I have used Memorex DVD-R media (bought a 10 pack), and they all worked fine. But since TDK is one of the few brands that worked on an old RCA DVD player I had, I've stuck mostly with the TDK and never went for anymore Memorex. But had little reason to avoid them (I might have lucked out with the 10 pack I bought???)

[ember]

I have rewritten to my Memorex DVD-R over a million times! They play good and are by far more reliable than any cheap US brands!

Regards,

IIM.

[drewson99]

the 1.1 were great, but the 2.0 are not, IMHO read this:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147383

[sdlehman]

The DVDs I have burned using Memorex have all been very reliable. I have had no problems at all. I would not ever use Memorex audio or video tape, but their DVD and CD blanks seem just fine.

[Sky King]

Well, I will post the results using the Samsung Beall discs as soon as they arrive(ordered 20 DVD-R discs from Cdrdvdrmedia) and I've burned a few discs.
The stuff I'm recording onto disc are for me, some pretty valuable home videos which include some family members who are no longer around. I don't like to keep replaying these tapes over and over in order to get a good tape to disc transfer. Hopefully my next transfer to disc will be successful and problem free.
By the way the Memorex DVD-R discs I have are version 2.0.

[LanEvo7]

Actually, not all of it is bad. Memorex has more than one company making their DVD-Rs. The ones made by Taiyo Yuden are really good. More in this thread https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153607

[spiderman2k1]

I can say this when I had the DRU500AX I could not burn memorex or hpyermedia on my Pioneer AO4 I have no problem's burn these DVD-R

[txpharoah]

All the Memorex stuff I ever bought was fine, just not my favorite.

No offense to anybody, but I really think most users should consider user-error over bad media sometimes. I reiterate... SOMETIMES... not always. Its not always the disc's fault, especially not if all of them turn into coasters. Look at what it's tested on, the system specs, what you have running at the time, and how it was made and with what software. And also the data on the disc. Those are the culprits 99% of the time, not the discs. Most of my coasters are my fault, what few I have. Same for most others I know, whether the realize it or not.