DVD media prices

[bladefist]

Hey all, I'm poor and looking for the best/cheapest place to buy some dvd-r media (online). Can any of you post me some links to the media you guys buy...I prefer Verbatim, but I'll buy anything at this point. Looking to pay about 60 cents a disc, obviously less would be better

[888888]

RIMA- Prodisc 36 cents each +shipping

http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=R&Product_Code=1631-1...tegory_Code=DM

[yoda313]

Hello,
If you don't want to pay shipping scour the weekend newspaper adds for the big electronics stores. You can find pretty good deals. Plus some will have combo rebates to knock the price down if you buy multiple items. Keep looking and you'll find good buys.
Kevin
P.S. I've heard it's best to avoid auction sites, some people try to rip you off with fake discs (though my auction experiences have been pleasant).

[bladefist]

888888 are those discs any good man? I've never heard of them before

[Treebeard]

Watch what you buy in those retail stores, be selective about your media. Dont go buy store name brand dvd's you will most likely regret it.
I Use DVD-R verbatim 4x & Ritek G04 (red package not purple). I have had 1 bad disk in about 400+ burns.

[maldb]

Shop4Tech - Prodisc 4x - .43 each (100), .40 ea (200), free shipping, +gift
link: http://www.shop4tech.com/user.htm?go=view_item&id=2216&cata=&s_cata=

Allmediaoutlet - Prodisc 4x - .35 each (100) + shipping
link: http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/allmedia/prodisc-dvd-r-4x-4.7gb-general-purpose-silver-s...-group-604.htm

I've used Ritek for some time now, but alot of people are saying good things about the Prodiscs. Order a small pack and try them out.

Hope that helps!

[888888]

888888 are those discs any good man? I've never heard of them before

Prodisc's are kind of controversial in the media forum. Many people say they are awesome and the best discs for the money. Others have had so-so experiences with them. A search for "Prodisc" in the media section will yield a load of information.

I use Maxell made in Japan DVD-Rs for important backups but needed cheap semi-important media.

I have had a grudge against Prodisc for a long time because of their crappy CD-R media but recently broke with it and decided to buy a 50 pack spindle from RIMA. So far, I have burned about 8 with good\untested results. It is way too early to tell for me. It also depends on your drive.

I say a small spindle is worth the risk.

Hope that helped my friend.

[dory]

bladefist, if your looking for great media an affordable price, check out these Sonic disks at shop4tech. http://www.shop4tech.com/user.htm?go=view_item&id=2423&cata=&s_cata=

I have bought them before, my last purchase and they were .33 each, I just received an email from shop4tech saying they are offering 10% off on their site with coupon code 'WEEKLY10' which would bring 100 pack of these disks down to like .26 each. These have the Must id and the media review section shows everyone that has used these disks with this code have had great results. That's why I bought them in the first place. I should probably post my experience in the media review section too.

[Madz]

How are they working out for you Dory? I just ordered 200 more of the whitetops. A quarter each w/ the coupon code. Best 2-bit media I've ever used!

[dory]

Madz, they are working out wonderfully. I just can't believe how cheap they are. They have the Must code and seems like everyone i've read about who gets the Sonics with that Code gets the must code. I don't think you could go wrong for .50 a disk but for .25, that's amazing. I've never used the whitetops but I may order those the next time.

[chas0039]

bladefist, if your looking for great media an affordable price, check out these Sonic disks at shop4tech. http://www.shop4tech.com/user.htm?go=view_item&id=2423&cata=&s_cata=

I have bought them before, my last purchase and they were .33 each, I just received an email from shop4tech saying they are offering 10% off on their site with coupon code 'WEEKLY10' which would bring 100 pack of these disks down to like .26 each. These have the Must id and the media review section shows everyone that has used these disks with this code have had great results. That's why I bought them in the first place. I should probably post my experience in the media review section too.

You don't work for Shop4tech do you? I know they are the only one to sell "Sonic" and at .26 cents they are cheap but you seem to link to them a lot.

[dory]

no chaos, I don't work for shop4tech, i'm an investment banker. I don't even have that many posts, so how do I link alot to anything? bladefist was looking for some good quality cheap media and I posted my experiences. There was another thread with Sonic but someone else responded to it, not me. I just posted my experiences. Is that ok?

[aero]

bladefist, if your looking for great media an affordable price, check out these Sonic disks at shop4tech. http://www.shop4tech.com/user.htm?go=view_item&id=2423&cata=&s_cata=

I have bought them before, my last purchase and they were .33 each, I just received an email from shop4tech saying they are offering 10% off on their site with coupon code 'WEEKLY10' which would bring 100 pack of these disks down to like .26 each. These have the Must id and the media review section shows everyone that has used these disks with this code have had great results. That's why I bought them in the first place. I should probably post my experience in the media review section too.

You don't work for Shop4tech do you? I know they are the only one to sell "Sonic" and at .26 cents they are cheap but you seem to link to them a lot.

You hit the nail on thehead. Look at his posts they are all about shop4tech. He registered right after the last person who constantly touted shop4tech stopped posting.

If you look at http://www.digitalfaq.com/othervideo/buymedia.htm you will see shop4tech has a very bad reputation.

next a shop4tech pusher will point us to reseller ratings. shop4tech retailer ratings are so obviously shilled it is funny with one line enthusiastic reviews posted in clumps of a half dozen in an hour or so.

[maldb]

Geez! Cut out the conspiracy theory already! This is ridiculous!

I've purchased alot of stuff from Shop4tech and never had a problem. When I ordered a box of DVD cases, around 20 of them were broken during shipment. I contacted customer support and they credited my credit card. I don't blame them for the cracked cases, I blame UPS seeing how they like to throw things around. I've never had a bad experience with DVDs either. They've been good to me and I'll continue buying from them, period.

I've used Riteks for the longest time, but if there's less expensive media out there which is just as good or better, I'm all for it. I'm going to order a small quantity of these 4X Sonics and see whether or not they are garbage. I have 2 different burners and 7 different standalone DVD players to test them out on. I'll come back with a report and let everyone know how they fare. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

If someone says they've had a good experience with a particular media, give them the benefit of the doubt - in the long run, we'll be able to verify whether or not it's true.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

I'm giving them a try (Sonic DVD-R 4.7GB 1X-4X Bulk by shop4tech), at .26c each with free shipping, it's worth the risk. I will tell you later how they went.

[DVDeeZ]

Geez! Cut out the conspiracy theory already! This is ridiculous!

Don't waste your time maldb. This aero is one real tool. They accused me of the same thing when probably 1% of my posts relate to shop4tech in any way. I've used most of the online sites at one time or another, although a couple of the East Coast ones I haven't used yet, but what was really sad was the fact that they actually got busted in a few blatent lies.

They said they purchased the same Matrix disks from shop4tech that I had and that they sucked. I was pretty sure that statement was an outright lie as I have a few different burners and my results were nothing but excellent with the disks. But then they went on to say they were definitely the same disks I had with the same media id, etc, and that they had bought them about 1 month prior to me buying them. Shop4tech didn't even have the disks until about a week prior to me buying them so again, that was an absolute outright lie.

They then went on to say that they've known shop4tech to be horrific for a while, blab, blab, blah, blah, but then I said, oh, that's interesting, if they are so terrible why did you RECENTLY purchase anything from them? Of course, once again, no response. They aren't real but it's pretty damn pathetic to have to flat out lie for whatever your reasons.

Not to mention I checked dory's posts out and they have some posts other then for shop4tech. They don't have that many posts period, another flat out lie from this tool.

BTW: Roethlesberger may be the best draft pick they've had in years, maybe ever if it pans out. Maddox getting that extension pretty much guarantees he won't play this year though, but it should be interesting. Oh, wait, I'd better stop, don't want aero to accuse me of working for Dan Rooney. LMAO

Edit: You gotta be kidding, I just read a post a few posts down where aero is pulling the same crap again with yet, another member. Even linked some bogus, unofficial site. Take a look at Supermediastore, it says "we have liked them since early 2004." Who is "WE" where are the legitimate reviews? That must be aero's motivation, working for supermediastore, figure they'd be a little smarter then to flat out lie with things that make no sense though. Another user or two seem to have the same motivations on this site, so sad.

[aero]

Even linked some bogus, unofficial site.

LOL, you have forced the closure of several threads after naking an ass and laughing stock out of yourself by going after several long time posters who pointed out you were giving false meaningless probes.

you are the one who became obsessed with the hoax story on ritek "RMA" which made you look quite stupid and hysterical.

When the hoax was unocvered you still went on and on calling everyone names and going off the deep end.

I linked to a site which is written by a long time member who is highly respectesd. Like many others he has had it with shop4tech's ripoffs, their salespeople OUTRIGHT lying about media codes, etc.

Stop talking to yourself, it makes you look like a nut. We already know you don't know anything about media.

Lord smurf's site http://digitalfaq.com/othervideo/buymedia.htm is "bogus and unofficial"? what is "official" bozo?

[DVDeeZ]

aero, it must hurt to be so stupid. Then again, with a brain like yours, I guess you probably don't feel much. You feel the need to keep repeating yourself aero, because you have nothing useful to say in any of your posts. The Ritek issue doesn't even need to be discussed again, I didn't get the thread locked NakedGeek did, and that's unfortunate, because i'm sure many members of this site who have recently purchased those Ritek media over the last month or so have gotten screwed big time.

Of course they wouldn't of seen that thread to warn them b/c of posters like yourself. Only a total idiot would deny the fact that there weren't nearly a fraction of negative Ritek posts prior to the RMA issue on ANY of the forums. Now there are Negative Ritek posts on every single forum on the web left and right. Go over to doom, cdfreaks, cdrinfo, fatwallet, etc, etc, and see how many people are saying RITEK, WTF. Only a person with a peanut brain couldn't figure out something is going on. Sure over the last year or so there were posts here and there which were negative to Ritek, but nothing like what's occurred over the last month or so.

But as I said, the sad thing is you continue to mention that issue, because you probably realize how much of an idiot you look like with all your shop4tech crap. You got busted in a bold faced lie aero, that must of made you feel real good. You couldn't even respond to the things that were said because you flat out lied. You never bought any of those Matrix disks, and anyone that read the post knows you didn't. You really made yourself look bright when you said you recently bought them but then you later said you've known shop4tech to be a terrible company for a long time. lmao, your so sad and pathetic.

And ahh, it's lordsmufs site, figures, the guy pushes supermediastore left and right, more then crosses the line for advertising, especially because i've read myself many posts where people aren't happy with supermediastore. Read one recently where one guy said they were pissed they got garbage and supermediastore made them pay the return shipping, of course lordsmurf came in and said all the sites do that. That's B.S too because Rima didn't make me pay a single penny when I got defective prodiscs. They took care of it and it didn't cost me a cent. The couple of times I've had to return stuff to shop4tech, I didn't have to pay a penny additional either.

It's one thing to like a site, but it's an entirely different thing to continuously bash people for their likes and then push the site you like. And like I said, that link you gave is unofficial, what part of unofficial don't you understand? Who is "WE" as referenced by that site? You and lordsmurf? It's one thing to like a site, it's another to continue to spam the site and bash everyone else who likes something different. Especially when you have to resort to bold faced lies to do it. You're one sad character aero.

[aero]

there you go again. You actually have no facts, and can only rely on insulting dozens here who are more knowledgable.

You are whining like a crybaby after being called out on your posting of laughable haoxes.


Don't you realize how embarrasing that must have been for you?

Look at you now strangly and wierdly going on and on after so many people here. you recommend crap disks, denegrate good disks, recommend crap retailers, denigrate good retailers

And what is with your bizzzare stalking of lord smurf? You seem obsessed with him in a very strange way. It is creepy. You come off like an unbalanced idiot. Where is your site? lol..

[DVDeeZ]

aero, you clearly have some issues, mainly mental. You keep mentioning lordsmurf, I could care less about lordsmurf, he doesn't phase me in any way. From what i've read he knows his videoediting very well, certainly much better then I do. He also has general knowledge of certain things based on his experience. As far as anything more detailed and in depth, he doesn't have any idea. I really can't fault him for taking the approach that a company that's so big wouldn't do this or that. But when statements of opinion become embellishing and misleading, then that's different. The proof is in the pudding though, the facts from people's experiences speak MUCH LOUDER then any post I've had with lordsmuf or anyone else regarding Ritek.

As far as "hoaxes" go, how about telling me what I have to gain by posting the information I did? Don't bother, your one sad case.

As I said though, you clearly have some serious issues. You're a liar aero and I doubt there's any poster on this forum or anywhere else that respects a single word of anything you write. Certainly not after reading your blatent fabrications and lies on the Matrix post. It's just pathetic that you'd even try to resort to making such things up. The right word is pathetic. You keep changing the subject because you were called out and I guess being a known liar doesn't sit to well with you. You brought that upon yourself.

And last but not least, don't put words in my mouth. What GREAT media did I degrade? You should be able to answer that since you've claimed I've bashed such great media. And I never bashed lordsmurfs site or degraded it either. I said it was unofficial and misleading. You linked it as if a serious content integrity department scrutinized each of the online companies and ranked them in order of their findings. That wasn't the case and I was just agreeing with the other poster, it was very misleading. Just like everything else you post, it's either misleading or not truthful. You don't seem to have much of a life.

As far as attacks go, you brought up lordsmurf, not me. You're also the one who seems to be stalking anyone who doesn't agree with buying from supermediastore or who buys from shop4tech. You attempt to attack every poster who says they've had positive experiences with companies which you haven't, and then you make up little kid stories as to why they shouldn't buy here or there. You've done it to three different posters in the last day alone. Look in the mirror aero, you're really pathetic.

You are in breach of the forum rules and are being issued with a formal warning.
/ Moderator Baldrick

[henry_nettles]

I have purchased from Shop4tech several times. Their prices are good, and the service is reasonable. I had to return one batch of media, and did receive a refund.

The media in question here (MUST 001) is very cheap, and works fine for computer backups, But none of my settop players like them. YMMV.