BD Rebuilder - What Size Disk Are You Making

[wulf109]

I'm curious what size disk people are making,the options are DVD5,DVD9,and BD25. I use DVD9 mostly and occasionally BD25. What size disk are making?

[mrswla]

I do mostly custom sizes. I like to make them as close to 23.2gb as possible. Sometimes I do BD-9, those are mostly for my HD-DVD to Blu-ray conversions. Most of the HD-DVD's I've done are a little over 10gb so it seems kinda dumb to use a BD-25 disc.

[Kerry56]

I made a few BD-9 disks, and one BD-5 disk just to experiment a bit and compare results, but I've switched to BD25 now.

Finding blank BD-R 25gb disks for a reasonable price has been a problem, but now have a fair supply.

[mrswla]

Finding blank BD-R 25gb disks for a reasonable price has been a problem, but now have a fair supply.

I use these. I have burnt about 100 of them without problems. Plus shop4tech always has coupons from 10% to 17% off. Right now they have 15% off if you use coupon code fd15(exp 12/20). Depending on the amount of discs you buy, you'll only be paying from $1.69 to $1.95 per disc.

What do you use? What is the price and how are your results?

[gll99]

I don't have a BD Writer so I've only experimented with BD-5 (on DVD media). The 3 discs I practiced with are older (Walmart specials) cheaply packaged BD movies in original mpeg2 source of about 17gb each. The output really looks good until you get a dark scene and then you can see patchy discoloration in the black. I've compressed a couple to BD-9 size but haven't written them to disc yet. I don't know if the same issues will show up with the dark areas. I'm still pretty green with these tools so that's why I've stuck with cheap DVD-5 discs so far.

[Kerry56]

What do you use? What is the price and how are your results?

I hope we're not derailing this thread too much, but I bought some from Newegg on Cyber Monday. With the Bing cashback they were $1.80 each for Memorex BD-R 25gb. I've also bought from ebay at that same price for Ridata brand disks. All are RITEK-BR2-00 mid code and I have had no problems with them at all using an LG GGW-H20L. I have a few TDK BD-RE for test burns, off of ebay for $5 each, so those are still fairly expensive.

The BD-9 encodes were actually very good. We had a long discussion/comparison about this last year over at cdfreaks (now MyCE). I just want better compatibility across various blu ray players, and so I've switched to BD-R disks for back up purposes. Even with a quad core, it takes too much time to waste encoding, just to have a player not recognize the disk.

[dilligaf]

My standalone BD player spits out any BD's burned onto dvd-r's, so Im now sourcing BD-R media for around the $3~$4 mark. The BD9 I trial burned onto a BD-RE looked and played great, its just a shame my player hates 'em.

[jman98]

I hope we're not derailing this thread too much, but I bought some from Newegg on Cyber Monday. With the Bing cashback they were $1.80 each for Memorex BD-R 25gb. I've also bought from ebay at that same price for Ridata brand disks. All are RITEK-BR2-00 mid code and I have had no problems with them at all using an LG GGW-H20L. I have a few TDK BD-RE for test burns, off of ebay for $5 each, so those are still fairly expensive.

Let us know in a couple of years if those Memorex and Ritek discs you burn now are still readable. Having no problems now means very little. Both companies make very poor quality DVD media and I wouldn't trust either of them to make reliable BluRay media.

[Kerry56]

Let us know in a couple of years if those Memorex and Ritek discs you burn now are still readable. Having no problems now means very little. Both companies make very poor quality DVD media and I wouldn't trust either of them to make reliable BluRay media.

I'm very well aware of Memorex and Ritek quality with dvds. I advise against using them quite often. But the scans on Ritek blu ray are indistinguishable from the Japanese made blu ray disks so far. Perhaps they haven't found a way to cut corners on their BD media yet.

Ritek is capable of producing good quality disks when they want to, and BD media commands a premium price still. You must remember that Ritek was making very good quality dvds under their mid codes and the Ricoh mid codes back in the 4x days for dvds. It was only when profit margins were cut to the bone that their quality control went to the crapper.

[wulf109]

Like one poster said please don't hi-jack the thread,it's not about media quality.