Ritek 4X media duds

[colojim]

If you're buying Ritek media in Australia be careful, the 4x media after being so reliable for the last year is now failing on 90% of attempts.

Princo or Laser is performing reliably, so it is not my burner.

[lordsmurf]

RITEK media began to falter in quality back in October 2003, and has constantly gotten worse as months go by. Nothing new, not at all.

RITEK has never been a name in quality media.

The days of RITEKG03 and early-on RITEKG04 high quality was nothing more than a fluke.

[Romper]

Never had a problem with the branded tops (purple top), only had problems with the white printable ones.

Used 4 or 5 50 spindles of purples, only 1 crook disc (and it was my fault at that). 1 spindle of white tops, didn't even finish the spindle problems galore.

[lordsmurf]

The purple discs were some of the earliest ones produced. I wish I had a few hundred of them laying around, quality discs. Expensive at the time too, about $3-4 each.

[colojim]

Yes it is disappointing that they suddenly have failed, I got confident with them then suddenly this. I have heard that there is a counterfeit problem but so far I have not identified any visual differences from the purple ones I bought before.
I am going to contact the company and see if I get anywhere otherwise it is Laser from now on.

[RonBoy]

What about the R03?
They seem to work fine on my equipment but I've only been burning my own for about 6 months mostly on a Philips DVDR75.
Recently bought a Sony DRU710a and the few I've used in it have worked at 8x.

[Ron Cahill]

Yeah, I've found RITEK to be very dissapointing over the past six months.
Two out of three 'Inket printable' spindles I had purchased here in Australia contained 20% corrupted media. GO4 4x & GO5 8x.
I've had to give them the big flick in favour of TDK.

[freestyler]

The last printable spindle I bought in Summer of 03 suffered from dye blotches.

I still have half the spindle left, only use them when I don't give a damn about what I'm burning.

All I use now are mcc 4x prodiscs and leftover tyg01 yudens from rima, along with tyg01 and mxlrg02 maxells from office depot sales. I've also got a few spindles of 8x yuden fujifilms I'll get around to some time.

Life is good, I hope my burner doesn't die anytime soon

[lordsmurf]

I have heard that there is a counterfeit problem

The counterfeits were supposedly contained in Asia and Europe (and eBay). At any rate, the genuine ones were bad too.

[garryheather]

I'm still buying from SVP's stock of G04's here in the UK and can report no problems at all... perhaps other dealers have been storing them next to nuclear reactors, in microwaves etc etc etc...

[Tidy]

yeah I just finished up a 100 pack of G04's with a 15-20 percent failure rate. Oh well guess I am going to have to find a new manufacturer that prduces decent quality at a decent price. I have used prodisc quite a bit and never had any problems with them. I would love to use TY but they are muy expensivo.

[iooi]

I'm still buying from SVP's stock of G04's here in the UK and can report no problems at all... perhaps other dealers have been storing them next to nuclear reactors, in microwaves etc etc etc...

Yep we must be lucky in the Uk .....
No problems here either with Go4's Printables or Go5's both printable and non....

[colojim]

I took the discs back to the shop today, they said there must be something wrong with my burner (SonyDRU510A).
I then said that I immediately tested with Princo (which are supposed to be worse) and Laser as well as Ricoh +R and had no problems and then tested the discs on the Pioneer drive of a friend over the road, he had the same problem as I although they burned at 1x for a while but crashed after burning a lead in track.

They replaced them with Ritek printable discs which I will test tonight.

What's interesting is Ritek 50 spindle of 4X -R cost A$32 and Laser 50 spindle of 4X -R cost A$31 and Laser is a better brand as far as I know.

Wish me luck.

[colojim]

Got my replacement G04 white top Ritek discs and trialled them this morning, no problems, all back to normal.

I loaded one of my old Ritek 4X purple discs (one that was good) and it too was a G04.

I loaded one of the failures from the new pack and it was a G05.

Until now I have not needed to know the difference but isn't G05 an 8X disc? That would explain a lot about why the DRU510 was not happy.

The G05 discs were labelled 4X however.

[freestylegreek]

Hi there im going to be getting a dvd burner a pioneer 108. I was wondering if these ritek's are any good I hear about some people having issues but i noticed on one site they sell ones that do 4x/8x/12x.

They also Silver Top" full edge non-printable surface for use with labels. Just not sure which one's these are since they dont say. All i could get is RITEK DVD-R MEDIA 4.7GB 8X-12X (50 PACK)

[keeny]

HI-i bought 200 ritek ridisc 4x from ebay.co.uk thew first 100 were great-first media i have burned at 4x,the next lot can't be read on 2 out of 3 standalone players (get wrong disc / error messages)
so i tried a few on some cheap unbranded infotec 4x dvd-r although they only burnt at 1x , they were read by every standalone i could try it on-do you think they were fake???

[colojim]

Keeny: have a look at Lordsmurf's comment further back, he mentions the counterfeit issue.

I would have expected that if I went to a shop and asked for 4X media I would get media that works at 4X, especially as 4X is the maximum that my Sony DRU510A can do unless they upgrade the firmware. All other brands that I have tested are ok, only Ritek seem to think they can sell 04 and 05 discs and too bad for you if your drive does not like it.
I can't see the shops that sell media allowing me to open a sealed pack of discs to test one to see if it is compatible in my particular burner.

[Tidy]

As long as you have the newest firmware the G05's which to my knowledge are indeed 8x should have burned at 4 with no problems whatsoever.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

FWIW
I got a 'LiteOn' branded Ritek G04 with my SOHW-812s. The dye had a blotch at the very end & crapped out accordingly. I only trust RITEKR02.

[deck]

Was going to purchase some of these from a shop here but the was warned by the owner they had heaps of returns on them and he didn't reccommend them. He said he would let me return them if they were no good but i decided not to take the risk and bought something else.

[Romper]

Even though I have had success with Purple tops, I get failures with inkjet printables, I too am looking for a new brand (preferably printables).

Hoping for a few more spindles of Purple tops, they just keep working.

[freestylegreek]

What about the ones with the silver top and purple bottoms?

[iooi]

Hi there im going to be getting a dvd burner a pioneer 108. I was wondering if these ritek's are any good I hear about some people having issues but i noticed on one site they sell ones that do 4x/8x/12x.
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Have used a few Go5 riteks in my 108 and have the same results as using the Go4.... They all burn and play OK for me.
That is with both Printable (unsure of brand)and ANV disks. These will all burn at upto 12X in the 108. Personally i stick to 8X, the diffrence in time is only a few secs and i'm not a great fan of the way burning stops when it changes gear.....

[freestylegreek]

I also dont like burning any media at a fast pace. Im in no rush to burn anything quickly.

Speaking about Ritek. I have Maxell CDR's and i did a info tool check on them using nero and found the Manufacturer ID to be Ritek.