Memorex DVD-R/+R Media sale at Office Depot

[ckdexterhn1]

For the past few weeks Memorex media has been on sale somewhere, Best Buy, Staples, CompUSA, etc. I picked up some of the 25pks of DVD-R media, for $29.99 a spindle. I know they are the CMC media code (CMC MAG. AF1), but they have been working well in the new Sony 510A I brought to replace my Pioneer 105, which has been having issues lately.

Well today Office Depot has the 25pk spindles of both -R/+R media buy one get one free for a total of $49.87. Best Buy also has the 50pk for $49.99. I went to the Office Depot website, brought two 25pk DVD-R spindles and a 500 sheet ream of paper to make the total over $50, used the coupon $10 off $50 purchase, then instead of delivery made the order an in-store pickup. I walked into my local store and walked out with 50 pieces of media and a ream of paper, total with tax - $47.51!

I then took the flyer from Office Depot and did a price match at Staples and Best Buy for the spindles I purchased over the last few weeks and got 110% of the difference back from both!

Now some of you may be thinking that there are better deals online for brands like Ritek, but with all of the threads lately about Grade A, Grade B, Grade C, etc., I just didn't want to be bothered with waiting for media to arrive in the mail that may be defective. If ther is a problem with the Memorex, I can just bring them back to the store I got them from, but so far I've burned about 75 of them, flawless!

[budz]

You're lucky those CMC work in your sony dvd burner. It didn't work on my Plextor 708a. I returned those to COMPUSA last month after burning 1 coaster. PC CLUB has a 25 pack of DVD-R for $19.99 supposedly they are RITEK. I got my cousin to buy it for me since we don't have that store where I live. I'll be getting it next weekend. Hopefully I won't have any coasters!!!!

[DaveS]

I just didn't want to be bothered with waiting for media to arrive in the mail that may be defective. If ther is a problem with the Memorex, I can just bring them back to the store I got them from, but so far I've burned about 75 of them, flawless!

I just don't know, and maybe someone out there can chime in, *when* will you know there's a problem?

Clearly, if the media can't burn, you can take it back. But what happens when it a cr_p disc that does burn, and then in a year, can't play? It's too late to return it and waiting a week would have been worth it...

[lordsmurf]

My latst +R Memorex were RICOHJPN and worked well

[proxyx99]

[quote="ckdexterhn1"]
I walked into my local store and walked out with 50 pieces of media and a ream of paper, total with tax - $47.51!

I then took the flyer from Office Depot and did a price match at Staples and Best Buy for the spindles I purchased over the last few weeks and got 110% of the difference back from both!
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I just love those stories. Monuments to people's ingenuity. WD had to pay me once for a priviledge of owning one of their 0 dollar HD. Incredible how coincidence, luck and a proper mixture of rebates can brighten up your day.

[budz]

DaveS wrote:

Clearly, if the media can't burn, you can take it back. But what happens when it a cr_p disc that does burn, and then in a year, can't play? It's too late to return it and waiting a week would have been worth it...

Is it the Princo media that you are talking that can't play in a year? I've heard someone mention that before. Hmmm I don't know if that's true or not. I have a few dvd movies I purchased from Ebay that were made with Princo media and they still work a year later.

[zanos]

I can't believe Memorex switched over to CMC. How disappointing.

[dcsos]

I just got 25 MEMOREX DVD-R they are CMC also
Staples NY had them $29 for 25
They burn 4X in my DRU-500
and don't have any problems like ARITA (?) CMC media I once bought

[ktton]

I just got a Memorex 50pack dvd+r , 4x speed. I just burned one and the media code showed CMC. I guess I will not be buying memorex anymore. I guess the other choices that we still have are imation and tdk. They are still ricoh.

[rharv]

Not Imation+R- last batch I got from bestbuy was CMC and had 12 bad disks in a row. Isn't Memorex -R CMC but not +R?

[ckdexterhn1]

Clearly, if the media can't burn, you can take it back. But what happens when it a cr_p disc that does burn, and then in a year, can't play? It's too late to return it and waiting a week would have been worth it...

No guarantees of anything in life except for death. I've only been burning discs since February, and all I know is that these discs have been playing well for my customers with no pixilation or other read problems. I've heard the stories of different brands of discs failing after a year or two...including Riteks, and it doesn't seem to matter how the discs were stored. At least Memorex offers a one year guarantee. Does ANY company offer a lifetime warranty on their media?

[ktton]

Not Imation+R- last batch I got from bestbuy was CMC and had 12 bad disks in a row. Isn't Memorex -R CMC but not +R?

Apparently Memorex dvd+r is now also produced by CMC. There is a trick to tell the different but I don't know how long the trick is gona last. If the base of the spindle is gray, then it is ricoh. If the base of the spindle is black, then it is CMC.

[dazz87]

My latst +R Memorex were RICOHJPN and worked well

same here... I had over 200 memorex dvd+r and they all been RICOHJPN and havent got a coaster yet.

[gmatov]

I don't think you are ever going to know what you have bough till you take it home and read it.

No guarantee that you buy one stack, find it's what you want, go back and "stock up", as was mentioned above.

I've bought 2 cake boxes of the same brand, from the same pile, at the same time, opened them and found 2 different descriptors.

Luck of the draw, what you end up with.

Cheers,

George

[frazzbo]

I got a good one for you. Office Max has the Memorex 25 pack +RW's on a spindle for $25 and I had a $10 off coupon for anything over $20. 15 bucks for 25 +RW's is a good deal. But wait, there's more. I went to Office Depot to get the "buy one get one free" Memorex deal, picked up 4 spindles and some "AA" batteries so it would add up to over $100 and I could use my $25 off coupon. 100 DVD+R's for 75 bucks and change. As for using the Memorex brand, I have had no problems at all. I got some that are a goldenrod color and the latest ones that have the silver top. They work great in my HP 200i.

[fslove]

I think early on CMC got a bad name for themselves by producing bad DVD-R's so now everyone like to slam them out-of-hand without knowing if a certain disc really is bad or not! I have burned hundreds of Memorex DVD-R's with not a single bad disc! They all were CMC yet they burned perfectly. I will say that these ALL have been 4x DVD-R's so I can't speak for the lesser speed DVD-R's. Everyone also needs to remember that each manufacturer has different specs they go by when placing orders for DVD-R's so just because a certain manufacturer's CMC discs are bad doesn't mean ALL discs made by CMC are bad! These no-name brands of course will suffer with more failures because the specs ordered to be manufacturered were not as stringent as the more brand name companies are. Blank DVD-R's are not simply cookie-cutter manufacturered, but vary upon how the manufacturer wishes them to be done.

[DatMuthapucka]

True fsolve ... but i can safely say from experience, compatibilty with a handful of players has been a problem for me and my friends when using CMC.. i returned a 25pk of memorex -R 4x i bought from office depot when i found out they were CMC.
Before i returned them i compared the packaging with past memorex's from the same store that were PROdiscS03's ,which are really nice and play in all the players that wouldnt play the CMC's. The CMC's have advertising paper on the top of the 25pk package. The PROdiscs do not have any paper inside on top of the cake. You can see right thru to the disc. And the bar code # is diff ... the bar code for the prodisc is
34707 05552 if anyone is interested.

i went back and exchanged it for the prodisc.. i told them i had problems with the CMC. mostly all 50 pks of memorex -R are CMC, beware. but the +R are really nice and burn at 8x ; ricohjpn


ps: fujifilm 4x -R is also PROdiscS03 found in 100pk from bestbuy.

[budz]

i went back and exchanged it for the prodisc.. i told them i had problems with the CMC. mostly all 50 pks of memorex -R are CMC, beware. but the +R are really nice and burn at 8x ; ricohjpn

Not all MEMOREX 4X DVD+R are RICOH. I bought some last month at COMPUSA and they were indeed CMC. Just thought I'd mention that because some people think the MEMOREX 4X DVD+R are all RICOH. And they aren't. Other forum sites have reported the same thing about them being CMC.

[gmatov]

fslove

They're not supposed to use their own specs. They're supposed to be "Book", and any disk should be as good as any other.

There are only so many firms set up to make glass, then nickle masters, to stamp or press the spiral etc that they should all be fail safe.

They are metallized in chambers designed by, I would assume a handful of companies, dyed and spun by the same companies equipment.

By all rights, every piece from every mfg should be 100% good.

I think there might be more variation in burners than in the media. You love CMC, Joe can't burn CMC, you can't burn Ritek, Joe loves Ritek, Harry burns everything he puts in his machine, never a coaster.

Think about that for a bit.

Cheers,

George

[fslove]

fslove

They're not supposed to use their own specs. They're supposed to be "Book", and any disk should be as good as any other.


Cheers,

George

Actually they do have the ability to spec out their orders and they do differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. When I say spec I am NOT talking about the DVD-R spec but specs for how and what is used to make the DVD-R's. There are numerous dye elements that can be used and differ in costs, there are different plasric grades, there are different platter grades all of which can be spec'd to many differing levels of quality.

If your theory that all DVD-R's should be a like then there would be NO debates as to the differing experiences with different drives/media. A cheapo unbranded seller is going to spec out to the manufacturer the cheapest type DVD-R's he can were as a brand name (who can sell at a much higher price point) can afford to spec out a better quality DVD-R.

[zanos]

I think early on CMC got a bad name for themselves by producing bad DVD-R's so now everyone like to slam them out-of-hand without knowing if a certain disc really is bad or not! I have burned hundreds of Memorex DVD-R's with not a single bad disc! They all were CMC yet they burned perfectly. I will say that these ALL have been 4x DVD-R's so I can't speak for the lesser speed DVD-R's. Everyone also needs to remember that each manufacturer has different specs they go by when placing orders for DVD-R's so just because a certain manufacturer's CMC discs are bad doesn't mean ALL discs made by CMC are bad! These no-name brands of course will suffer with more failures because the specs ordered to be manufacturered were not as stringent as the more brand name companies are. Blank DVD-R's are not simply cookie-cutter manufacturered, but vary upon how the manufacturer wishes them to be done.

Dude there are also plenty of ppl who claim to have burned hundreds of princos successfully. It doesn't mean it's a reliable brand. I've had one problem or another on every disc that wasn't manufactured by Ricoh or Ritek especially optodisc. CMC's will not play perfectly in every dvd player. That just goes to show you that there are inherent problems in the brand. They may be better than optodisc, sky, etc. but that isn't saying much.

[proxyx99]

Right on. DVD Rec. standards are still in development and we are the guinea pigs. The product is not even half-baked yet so talking in certain terms about quality is ludicrous. All we can do is take steps to minimize losses.

[ipgpe13]

Just picked up a 50 pack spindle of Memorex DVD+R 4X (Black Base) at Best Buy in NY.

DVDInfo says they are RICHOJPNR01.

So far I have bought a 50 pack at CompUSA, 2 - 25 packs at OfficeMax and these today, in the past 3 months, all have been RICHO, all burned at 4X on my Sony DRX500ULX.

[clueless]

I just bought a 25 pack of Memorex DVD+R last week and it wouldn't work with my HP burner. So I had to return them.

[tigerman8u]

i got a pack of memorex +r 4x, dvdinfopro showed these as richo, all of these burned and played flawlessly.
got another 25 pack of memorex +r sunday and these show cmc
got a 25 pack of memorex -r today and they are cmc also
only burnt 2 of the +r cmc but no problems, haven't tried the -r yet
btw i paid $22 for the memorex -r 4x 25 pack

[rharv]

WOW! what a variety- I got a 50 pack of Memorex DVD+R for $50 after rebate at BestBuy. They report as RICOHJPNR01. The Memorex -R I got last week were CMC and seem fine so far. Burned about 8 of those. Will post as to the +R's if there are any problems.

[zanos]

The -r have always been by CMC so no surprise there but if Memorex is switching over to CMC for their +rs then it's time to move on to other brands. I am not paying good much for bad media. I just bought a 50 pk from BB recently because I was desperate and needed it right away. I prayed it wouldn't be CMC and it turned out to be Ricoh so I count myself lucky. It seems a lot of ppl who have bought memorex from office depot have gotten cmc +rs. It's just not worth the gamble when you can get ricoh +rs for $1 or less online somewhere.

[normando]

I thought I would roll the dice with the 50 packs on sale for $50 at Best Buy on their Memorex 4x +R discs. Well the gamble paid off. They are indeed RICOHJPNR01-02 discs.

These are very good discs... this is the same media code as the Ritek 4X +R 50 packs currently being sold at Rima.com. BB has piles of them as well... if only I had piles of cash to buy them with.

To all Plextor PX708A owners... I have been successfully burning these RICOHJPNR01-02 discs at 8X using Nero 6 and DVDecrypter.

Get them while you can... BestBuy is selling them for $50 with an INSTANT rebate... no mail in crap.

Is that fella above sure that the Memorex 4X +R discs he bought are CMC?... or did he mix them up with one of his Memorex 4X -R discs? It sure would be nice to hear that all Memorex 4X +R media is RICOHJPN. Can you check again guy?

[Kerry56]

I bought some TDK 4x +R disks a while back. They were RICHOHJPNR01 and wouldn't work worth spit in my NEC 1300a. Even with Herrie's modified firmware. Sticking with my Verbatim MCC's out of Singapore while they last.

Wish I could find a reliable source of Taiyo Yuden 4x +R disks, but the only online sources I've seen were a bit out of my price range.

[rharv]

RICOHJPNR01 (according to DVDINFOPro) with Memorex+R label are working fine in my NEC1300A and in my buddy's new Emachine system also. Both have 1.05 Firmware. I've been burning and then reading thru every disk for errors since my bad experience with Imation+R CMC's (12 bad in a row). The Memorex-R (CMC) have done fine and the Memorex+R (RICOHJNPR01) have done fine also.
Just for verification I tried the Imation+R again and again got same error. It seems that almost the whole batch is bad in the same general sector area. wierd eh?