HQ AZO 4x DVD-R....A good buy? (Reviews?)

[RKelly]

I saw meritline had a 100 4x for $23.00 Is this worth buying or are these crap? Any reviews? They also had BeAll 4x 50 pack for $21.99. I've heard these are good. Would they be a better buy?

http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/hq-4x-dvd-r-dvdr-blank-media-bulk.html

[lordsmurf]

I've not tried them ... but I don't think I'd buy them.

[accountwiz]

I believe I'd request a few samples first. Boggles the mind how cheap media is becoming.

[RKelly]

yea thanks. I was a little wary myself so I think I'll take a pass

[DVD_Ripper]

I recently bought 50 Maxell TYG01's for about $40.00 .... thats about the cheepest I would go for media... no sense spending time encoding, authoring and burning only to have the media go bad tomorrow or next week.

[henry_nettles]

There are several places selling really cheap discs these days. Last week I picked up 100 DVD-R discs for $24.30 shipped. These are the "MUST 001" discs which seem to be about the same as the "YI JHAN" which seem to be about the same as the "LONGTEN 001". All 3 brands burn fine in my Nec 2500a and my Pioneer 106, and they read back quite well in any of my computer drives. But all 4 of my settop players have trouble with these discs -- pausing, freezing, etc.

These discs are excellent for computer backups, but not good for movie backups.

The Prodisc S03 seem to be about the cheapest media for reliable movie backups.