Newegg has Verbatim 8.5GB 2.4X DVD+R DL 20 Packs (95310) for $20 w/Free Shi

[Denvers Dawgs]

Newegg has Verbatim 8.5GB 2.4X DVD+R DL 20 Packs (95310) for $20 w/Free Shipping

LINK FIXED...Odd it worked for me when I had originally posted, but it should be fine now.

[jman98]

It might be worth mentioning that the odds are quite high that these discs are the Made In India Verbatim DL discs. Verbatim still uses India for some/all lower speed rated DL media with the exception of the DataLifePlus inkjet writable DVD+R DL discs which are rated at 2.4X but ONLY made in Singapore.

[Noahtuck]

A link to the actual product might be helpful

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817130008&cm_re=17-130-_-17-130-008-_-Product

And we will find out today as they will be delivered today.
I just ordered a pack of these sunday for $24.99
Wish i would have waited a couple more days.

And all i order from newegg are the verbatim 2.4x DL+R's (never inkjet printables) the exact same one's in the link, and i have never once got a pack if MII.

So either i have beaten the odd's several times or they are not that high

8)

[victoriabears]

in Canada there is a 5 limit per customer, just fyi

[aedipuss]

all the verbatim dl +r i've ordered through newegg are still coming through as made in singapore.

just got some verbatim sl -r from the neweggg black friday deal - made in united arab emir??? new one on me, i'm not too happy.

[jman98]

all the verbatim dl +r i've ordered through newegg are still coming through as made in singapore.

That's good to know but the critical piece of information that you are leaving out is - what speed are they?

8x-10x are only Made in Singapore as far as I know.
2.4x DataLifePlus inkjet printable are definitely only Made in Singapore.
2.4x-6x discs may be Made in India or Made in Singapore. You pay your money and you take your chance.

Cheap 2.4x non-DataLifePlus DL media is only Made in India as far as I know.

By the way, Verbatim's single layer media has been reported to be OK wherever it's made. If you really care you can order their single layer DataLifePlus series which is only Made in Taiwan. I buy these and think they are excellent.

[handyguy]

I missed Bing cash back on them it was like 15%......

Along with these disks I bought yesterday, FF Crisis Core PSP for $10, free shipping

[aedipuss]

all the verbatim dl +r i've ordered through newegg are still coming through as made in singapore.

That's good to know but the critical piece of information that you are leaving out is - what speed are they?

8x-10x are only Made in Singapore as far as I know.
2.4x DataLifePlus inkjet printable are definitely only Made in Singapore.
2.4x-6x discs may be Made in India or Made in Singapore. You pay your money and you take your chance.

Cheap 2.4x non-DataLifePlus DL media is only Made in India as far as I know.

By the way, Verbatim's single layer media has been reported to be OK wherever it's made. If you really care you can order their single layer DataLifePlus series which is only Made in Taiwan. I buy these and think they are excellent.

the dl -r media i've gotten for at least the last year from newegg is 2.4-6x mis. no mii thankfully.

[Denvers Dawgs]

it says 2.4x right in the thread title

[victoriabears]

didn't last long in Canada, only got one order in and the price changed to $30.99 and no free shipping

[lordsmurf]

To be perfectly blunt, Newegg has fucked me several times.

1. Taking orders, processing charge -- then refunding with out of stock notice.
2. Taking orders, confirming order, but item arrives with invoice date several days after order was made. When a rebate is involved, this screws you.
3. The online practice of changing prices hourly/daily is retarded. Either do weekly/twice-weekly sales, or just piss off. Reading about a special, only to visit the site a few hours later and see the deal gone, is the very definition of "bait and switch".

[aedipuss]

it says 2.4x right in the thread title

yes but you are not correct about the discs. they are 2.4-6x in that link. look closely at newegg's picture and read the box carefully.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageGallery.aspx?CurImage=17-130-008-S01&SCList=17-130-...0Model%2095310

[samijubal]

Newegg rocks. I've never had any problems with them and they stand by what they sell 100%. They even give a 1 year warranty on most of what they sell. Who else does that? Amazon does the same thing with prices changing constantly.

[Noahtuck]

it says 2.4x right in the thread title

yes but you are not correct about the discs. they are 2.4-6x in that link. look closely at newegg's picture and read the box carefully.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageGallery.aspx?CurImage=17-130-008-S01&SCList=17-130-...0Model%2095310

I just checked his link and my link and they are the 2.4x not the 2.4x-6x
Even the specs say Max Speed Supported 2.4X
I like to read not just look at purty pichurs :P

I have never had a problem with newegg, but then all i have ever ordered from them are dvdr's & burners.

I will find out this afternoon.
I thought they would be here yesterday but checking the tracking, it shows they are out for delivery now so they won't be to my house until this afternoon.

[redwudz]

I ordered two boxes. And I've never had any problems with NewEgg. I spend a lot of $'s there.

[Noahtuck]

Yep, came today.

A 20 pack of 2.4x DL+R's & a 100 pack of DVD+R's, both in the purple shrink wrapped spindles.

DL+R's MIS

SL DVD+R MIT

Not so worried about the SL dvdr's but definitely glad the DL's are still MIS 8)


Man!! I better go buy me one of those michigan $53,000,000 lottery tickets :P

[aedipuss]

yes but under the 2.4x does the label say in small print up to 6x*

[Noahtuck]

yes but under the 2.4x does the label say in small print up to 6x*

Nope, it's not even the same packaging they show in the photo.
The same ones/packaging i got before (always got before) for some 360 backups & some rare import concert dvd's.
I hope they don't go away from the lower speed ones eventually!!
I am going to pop one in and see what it say's the rated speed is with dvdinfo pro, ect.

Every previous one worked perfectly.

I am not going to be burning any for a few days so i'll see if they burn or work any differently.

I don't know, but i would like to try some just to see how they work. (edit: the faster rated ones at a faster burning speed)

I have seen some that are not even rated as low as 2.4x but i have always avoided them just because i always burn DL+R's at 2x

I was actually going to order a 10 pack for $15.99 because i did not need 20 but when i went to order they were not listed anymore in the 10 pack spindle so i just said screw it and bought the 20pack.

EDIT:
In dvdinfo pro it just say's Manufacturer Rated Speed 2.4x 3324KBps

But it also say's,
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps

I also checked one of my old ones just now, that is already burned, and it only states the 2.4x Manufacturers rated speed, no Available Write Descriptor speed, but i am guessing that is because of them already being burned.
Wish i had one from the last batch that was still blank to check.

[aedipuss]

check with imgburn. see what the adip disc id is. the 2.4x media i get from newegg is always mkm-001-00. what is referred to as 2.4-6x or 2.4-8x usually as it's not the old single speed mis 2.4x.

[edit] p.s. it's excellent media

[redwudz]

I just got my two cakeboxes. Both are Singapore DL discs.

[JohnnyBob]

I don't buy 65310 anymore. The last spindle I got in 2008 was crap, PIE totals over 1 million. It used to be the best but not anymore. MIS is no guarantee of good quality either. I avoid the 2.4x DL discs now.

I switched to 96542 spindles of 30 DL+R discs, 8x rated speed, a couple of years ago and haven't had any serious problems with them although there is some variance of quality from batch to batch.

Incidentally the 95102 spindle of 100 discs, single layer 16x DVD-R, I received from Newegg on their Black Friday special are made in United Arab Emir. I've burned a couple and scanning with DVDSpeed indicates they're excellent quality. The one I burned at 8x scans a little better than the one I burned at 16x. PIE increases towards the outer edge of the disc but not seriously if burned at 8x. It looks significantly better than the 16x DVD-R Taiyo Yuden I've been using previously.

I've been buying various things from Newegg for several years and never had a problem. I've never had to return anything.

[wtsinnc]

Buy them at your own risk.
My experience with the Verbatim 95310s has been horrendous.
With the last two 20 count spindles, both labeled MIS, I had 19 failures with one and either 10 or 12 failures (I don't remember exactly) with the other.

Please don't post with suggestion(s) that I must have done something wrong or the failures were the result of a defective burner or poor technique or using the wrong software.
The exact same process using other versions of Verbatim +R DLs resulted in 90% to 95% success rate.

The sad truth is that Verbatim has knowingly allowed their quality control to go on leave.
When it comes to DL media, they know that the consumer has no other viable choice.

That said, there are still quality +R DLs available from Verbatim.
My unsolicited advice is to spend a little more and get either the 2.4x-6x 95166s or the Data Life Plus 96732s which are rated at 2.4x but will burn as high as 6x for me.

[jman98]

Buy them at your own risk.
My experience with the Verbatim 95310s has been horrendous.

95310 is not really a helpful designation, but I found via a Google search that you are referring to the 2.4-6x rated media. I will say what I said earlier about this specific media - you pay your money and you take your chance. These discs have been known to be problematic for a long time.

If you want reliable Verbatim +R DL media you have 2 choices as far as I can tell.
1) You buy the 8x-10x media.
2) You buy the 2.4x rated inkjet printable DataLifePlus series. The DataLifePlus series DL media is ONLY available as inkjet printable, which adds to the cost. These discs are expensive.

[JohnnyBob]

95310 is not really a helpful designation...

I disagree. It's crystal clear to me. You may have to google for it, but I don't, nor does anyone who is familiar with purchasing DVDs regularly and in quantity. It's printed on every spindle as the last 5 digits in the UPC code. It is the easiest unambiguous way to specify a particular kind and quantity of disc: 95310, 96542, 95102, 95098, etc. It's the only thing you need to know when re-ordering or searching.

[jman98]

95310 is not really a helpful designation...

I disagree. It's crystal clear to me. You may have to google for it, but I don't, nor does anyone who is familiar with purchasing DVDs regularly and in quantity.

The fact that the numbers mean something to YOU does not mean that they are meaningful to most of our readers. However, I could be wrong on this. Maybe I'm in the minority here in arguing that they aren't helpful. I don't really care either way. But given how you seem to have really strongly formed opinions that verge on being "I'm always right and everybody who doesn't agree with me is wrong", I have no intention on arguing the point with you. Again you may be right here, but I kind of doubt it. I'm finding it hard to believe that most of our members find it useful to commit manufacturing numbers to memory. But if you want to argue about how wrong I am and how once again you are right, feel free. Regardless, my point stands. Whether you call them 95310 or 2.4x-6x discs, they've been known to be problematic for quite some time so telling us how much they suck is no surprise to me. But I will say that you seem to have spectacularly bad results from a lot of stuff you do. I bought a 20 pack of the infamous 2.4x-6x Made in India +R DL discs which many people bitched about. Know how many bad burns I had? One. I realize that of course you are infallible so this is not directed at you as you couldn't possibly be using bad burners or bad methods in your burning, but have the others ever considered just how the hell it is possible to get 19 bad burns out of 20 pack? I've had bad Memorex media before and I never even came close to that kind of failure. I've never had worse than 20% failure with terrible Memorex media.

[wtsinnc]

jman98;

had you thought to view the link in the op, you would have had no problem knowing what "95310" referred to.

I simply related my opinion about the media referred to in the op.
My opinion, whenever stated here or anywhere else, is based on my personal experience.
These forums are for the exchange of ideas and information.
This is what I did.

The obvious fact that you are pissed off about my comments makes no difference to me.
In review of your previous posts, it is quite obvious that you get pissed off about a lot of things.

-No dig deal-

You will most certainly be pissed off about something or someone else later today.

Your act is getting really, really old.

[aedipuss]

hehe - never noticed the number was part of the UPC, i thought it was newegg's inventory number and i've been using verbatims back to the "94077" s.

[negritude]

No matter what the package says, Verbatim 2.4x DL media has always been burnable at up to 6x speeds, depending on the burner and the country of manufacture. The MIS discs are safe at up to 6x, while the MII discs shouldn't be burned faster than 4x. This is the way it's always been, going back years, no matter what any pictures or descriptions say.

[JohnnyBob]

No matter what the package says, Verbatim 2.4x DL media has always been burnable at up to 6x speeds, depending on the burner and the country of manufacture. The MIS discs are safe at up to 6x, while the MII discs shouldn't be burned faster than 4x. This is the way it's always been, going back years, no matter what any pictures or descriptions say.

The best way to burn Verb 2.4x DL media MII is with a match. Although I've had some spindles that were marginally OK, others were bottom of the barrel, maybe a 50:50 good/bad quality ratio. The Verb 2.4x DL media MIS from early-2008 and prior were top quality but nosedived by mid-2008. Now all Verb 2.4x are unreliable regardless of manufacturing location, and their 8x DL are just starting to follow suit. Verbatim has no quality control anymore. They're living on borrowed time (their former good reputation).

[wtsinnc]

If competition existed in the dual-layer category, Verbatim would clean up their act.
Without a viable alternative, the buying public is held hostage.

The truth is that (at least in the US) only Verbatim has marketed a decent quality DL and I really doubt they will address the fall-off in quality because Blue Ray and beyond is the big thing now; standard definition gets moved to the back of the bus and DL users are under it !

Should the 2.4X Verbatim DLs also drop in quality, my backup strategy will necessarily change.
Go movie only mode, and if the special features are desired, put them on a second DVD.

Finally, there's always backup to a hard drive and use something like the Western Digital Media Player.