Ritek and Langa

[Jestak]

Greetings,

Two things in this post:
1 - I just received RITEK disks from alloutletmedia.com. Here is the dvdinfopro listing when I burned one. Are they the good RITEK or the bad ones (If there is low waulity/cheap ones). I thought I was buying G03. May someone explain me please?


Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEK R01
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name EIGHT_LEGGED_FREAK
Application id
Implementation id mkisofs
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 11/ 1/2003 14:13:32
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-ROM
Media Type DVD+R
Media Id Code Speed 2.4x 3324KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22E2EFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

2 - Langa from www.langalist.com published on his site a very good article about the life of CD-R. He published a more complete article on infoweek.com (I think, but it is available through a link on his site). What it seems he discovered, is that the labelling glue affected his disks but not the ink of special CD markers. I found it kind of interesting and I wanted to share.

Thank you

[garryheather]

If you thought you were buying G03's and got something else, you want to send them back and at least get your money back. That's just naughty.

I for one have never come across the R01 before... that's a new one on me. No idea on that dye type at all !

[Faustus]

G03 is a -R ID... thats a +R disc.

[garryheather]

Ah - that explains my naivity - I'm a -R man (and too lazy to look in the media list).

Could easily be the G03 equivalent, then... good job the guy in question has a +R or dual format burner !

[Jestak]

Greetings,

Indeed, this is a +R media. I am sorry, I did not know the G03 was a -R.
When I bought my computer, like many others, I got screwed by Dell. I did not know too much what were the different DVD formats and I trusted Dell. So, they sold me a not-so-good NEC1100A 2 months ago.

I had all kind of problems with different media brands and after reading on this site, I figured out that most people had no problem with the RITEK G03 and G04.

Thank you