Ritek is world champion...

[MOVIEGEEK]

...in sales,Ritek has also submitted a proposal for 8x media.
Courtesy of Digitimes.com:http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article1.asp?datePublish=2003/06/17&pages=04&seq=20

[Doggiedaddy]

That must be why they keep raising their FRICKING prices every day. If they keep it up I may turn to OPTODISC in the future.

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[LanEvo7]

Don't get Optodisc. They aren't as compatible as Riteks and Accus are. You should give the DupEZs at Rima a try if you want to try some new discs.

[falberni]

I've found ACCU media not to be as good as OptoDisks. They are not as consistent. You get some good ones and some bad ones. They're even better tha Ritek G03s. I can burn them at 1x and at 2x and it does not make any difference.

To find out how good a DVD media is, you need to test them in a fast DVD ROM. I use Nero's CD Speed for testing. I run all the tests. The transfer test is the most revealing. A good burn would show up as a straight line, starting at about 3.5 and ending around 8. No drop off from the straight line, no oscillations, no zigzags.

Some other things to watch for in the CD Speed test. Watch the CPU usage. At 1x it should be less than 8%. Then it goes higher and higher at 2x, 4x, and 8x. It should never reach 100%. Some disks would have a straight line transfer rate, but then at 8x the CPU usage shows up at 100%. I would consider it suspect.

My Pioneer Standalone player would play anything I throw at it. But the disks that have glitches on the transfer test, usually end up having problems on other people's standalones.

You can not use your DVD burner for CD Speed testing. Since the transfer rate has been set to around 2.1, the transfer test would show up as a horizontal line, rather than a sloping line. Bad disks would show good results when tested in the burner.

There are some other ways you can test a disk. Throw it in your fast DVD ROM and play it with your player software. Fast forward it at the highest possible rate from beginning to end. You should see continuous movement without any hiccups or hesitation. You can do the same thing in your DVD player. Fast forward to the max and watch it from beginning to end. There should be no momentary freezes.

I would say the CD Speed test would give you a very good indication whether a DVD disk would play trouble free in other standalone players. Just give it a try. If you have a disk that has problems playing on your standalone, or on friends machine, then test it and see how the transfer test chart looks. Again, you would need a fast DVD ROM, as at fast transfer rates the problem areas become more evident. You would almost never get any problems until you reach about half way in the middle of the disk. Some problems show up near the very end.

OptoDisks are better than Accu and also better than Riteks. You can see the results of some testing that is done by falystus here:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=162404

And here:

http://www.crystalmidnight.com/dvdtest/

[red lion]

8x some of us cant get RITEK 4x to work faster than 2x in our drives untill sony gets there act together with there dru500a\ax drives..

[Tommyknocker]

I just hope Ritek does not drive Verbatim out of the market. I ordered ten Optodisc DVD-RWs and now they sit around taking up space, laughing at my Pioneer 104. The Verbatims I ordered, on the other hand, are working nights for me.