Transparent DVD-R disks?

[TheSeven7hSon]

Are the Pioneer disks really transparent or were they just made transparent for the ads.?

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/CDA/Industrial/IndustrialProductDetails/0,14...4,2361,00.html

Seven

[txpharoah]

8) 8) :P :P

Do I really need to answer that?

[SaSi]

It's amazing what advertising brains can do that ends up in confusion.

The basic principle for the operation of DVD (and CD) is the reflectivity of the "reading" surface achieved by a reflective, mirror-glass like emulsion placed on the other side.


(I could have said "placed on the writing side" since this is the side where we write the contents of the disk and that might further confuse the issue with people commenting that DVDs are recorded from one side and played-back from the other )

[SVCDummy]

Probably noy, but I would not be surprised to find them to be at least partially transparent.

I am currently on my 2nd cakebox (50stack) of DVD-R's from PC Club that are in fact transparent enough to read the computer monitor through, although with difficulty. In fact, if you look through them from the bottom side they are like very very dark sunglasses. I have not made any coasters yet, and they seem to be fairly reliable when moved from set top system to system.

I also do not label them! I write on them with a sharpie marker and have not had a failure so far. The oldest burn I have so far is 2 months old and it still plays everywhere in the house.

Ignore the ridicule or others. Your question was valid.

[Crash-n-Burn]

Im sure they are somewhat transparent i have cdr's that if you put them in the sun you can see right through them.

[kenmo]

I thought Pioneer were abandoning DVD media manufacturing ?

PS: It's transparent as they are known as optical discs

[TheSeven7hSon]

Thanks, that's pretty much what I figured. If another disk came out with how dark purple their dye is, I didn't think the stuff could be transparent.

I just wondered because Pioneer's disks are so expensive. Could they have been like the mimi 3 inch disks? A novelty? Or they could have a patent on the tech. And since I never seen a Pioneer disk up close, I didn't know.

......and no, you don't have to answer.

Seven

[SLK001]

No. Anyway, you are looking through the CASE, not the DVD blank.

But wait... I put that plastic disk protector from one of my spindles in my DVD recorder, and hit record. Guess what? It recorded! (NOT).

[n6nfg]

Speaking of transparent DVD's, I have the "Back to the Future" trilogy,
and all three of these DVD's are pretty transparent. You have no
problem looking through them, with only their label coloring blocking
looking through easily.

I have found that disk # 2 of the set (second of the sequence) has
a lot of trouble being read on computer DVD readers, especially
on laptops. I returned a Tohsiba laptop due to this, and had to go
through 3 more in the inventory to find one that would read this
disk. Set top players don't seem to have a problem with it though.

Soooo, commercial pressed DVD's that are transparent seem to
be a problem for some drives, not just DVDr's!!

-n6nfg

[b166er]

you are actually looking through neither as there is absolutely no refraction. I say buy them then take them to court for false advertising ?

lol