TDK Professional DVD-R media ID?

[lordsmurf]

http://www.meritline.com/tdk-16x-dvd-r-white-inkjet-hub-printable-shrink-warpped-bulk.html
http://www.meritline.com/tdk-8x-dvd-r-white-thermal-hub-printable-shrink-warpped-bulk.html
http://www.meritline.com/tdk-8x-dvd-r-white-inkjet-hub-printable-shrink-warpped-bulk.html

Any idea what the codes are on these discs? Country of origin?

Neither Meritline nor TDK would give me a straight answer on what discs are in here, so I'm a bit miffed at both of them right now. TDK gives me the company line (bite me, TDK) and Meritline is afraid to open a package. You'd think these companies would be eager to deal with folks who could help them sell their own products. Their loss.

TDK-manufactured media has been scarce in recent years, and these sort of popped up out of nowhere.

I read one post --- ONE on the entire Internet --- that (at least some) of the 8x are MBI discs. But that's it.

This blank DVD media stuff is getting more aggravating as time goes by.

[Gen-An]

My guess for the 16x at least would be TTH02 made in India by MBIL, as the only 16x TDK made in India I"ve used was TDK003 with a Moser Baer hub code. If you take a close look at the 16x -R thermal printable packaging, you can see "made in India" on the label: http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/meritline_1978_284628105

[lordsmurf]

I don't trust the images or info on the Meritline pages, it's why I had asked.

For example, the info on the 8x DVD-R inkjet page is discussing DVD-RW phase-change media. It has nothing to do with dye-based recordable DVD-R.

Somebody at Meritline is asleep at the wheel lately.

I can't even count the number of e-mail ads I've gotten from them in the past 6 weeks, where there were 1-2 misspelled words. Sometimes in the e-mail subject line, of all things!

I'd considered buying 100-200 of them, but won't spend $25-50 blindly (at least not during December, for the obvious reasons of money spent elsewhere). If they worked great, I'd have started to suggest them to others. Their loss, screw it. Best Buy has Verbatim 50-packs for $13 and I know what to expect there. I'll give BB my money later today or tomorrow.

[GKar]

Lately I have been able to only trust the +/-R TY's from Supermediastore, most everything else has been unreliable for me.

[Gen-An]

I've seen the TDK printables at a local media shop, and they were all made in India. The pics on Meritline appear to be ones they took themselves and not stock photos from TDK.