-= What's the best crappy brand DVD-R media to buy? =-

[J Crew]

i'm wanting to buy the cheap brand dvd-r disc so that i can do nothing but backup programs and junk the accumulates on my 3 hard drives. what's the best crappy brand dvd-r's to buy? meaning, i want to steer away from any brands that people have said can't even be read by the dvd-r drive that the disc was recorded on, or something like that. i'm currently looking at these two brands: DVDpro from Meritline.com and Yesbuy.net general purpose dvd-r media. the yesbuy.net media is the cheapest that i've found at $1.80 per disc when a bulk of ten is purchased. just looking for opinions, please let me know. peace

[Savant]

I've purchased media from Meritline before, (and I know of others) and I haven't had any problems with them. However I didn't buy the type you are asking about. Make sure to choose the less expensive shipping option, they use UPS Express by default.

Regards,

Savant

[Trainman]

I've tried some of the generics from Meritline.com for DVD-R authoring (not for backing-up).

All I've tried thus far have failed at playing back properly, except for one (from Meritline): "DvdPro 25Pack 4.7GB DVD-R Blank Media V2.0 (DVD Recordable) General Purpose $1.98 each", found in the right-hand column somewhere near the top. $49.50 for the 25-pack, and prices seem to be quickly coming down. It was $57.25 just a week or so ago.

This particular generic burns flawless DVD-R movies at 2x with my Pioneer DVR-A03, as opposed to 1x with some of the other generics, which won't play correctly. Burned with Prassi Primo-DVD software.

Can't say what it's like for archiving data, but should be great, if my DVD-R movies are any indication.