100 Pack Fuji DVD-/+R on sale at Best Buy

[budz]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5961872&type=product&productCategoryId=p...=1061127216222

Anyone know the media ID for those 100 pack of Fuji DVD-/+R on sale at Best Buy? Are they made in japan spindles or made in taiwan? Any comments will be appreciated! Thanks!

[nelson133]

Usually they have at least some that are made in japan, just read the label. Nyah Levi

[dfisher052]

A 50 pack of Fuji is available at a Kmart near you for $17.99 this week.

[lafjax]

Just bought 100 16x TY's from Supermedia for $39.
Just $5 more than K-Mart + shipping.

[budz]

Usually they have at least some that are made in japan, just read the label. Nyah Levi

Nah really just read the label!!! :P
I figured someone may have purchased them before which is why I asked! :P

Thanks for the comments. I didn't know KMART had them on sale.

[Bix]

Just bought 100 16x TY's from Supermedia for $39.

I don't see this on their site...you got a coupon or something?

[44echo]

Staples has 30 spindle for $8.94, made in Japan. No rebates or quantity limit. They're colored discs.

[BobK]

Nah really just read the label!!! :P
I figured someone may have purchased them before which is why I asked!

Really- read the label. If they're made in Japan then they're probably TY. I usually buy at least 100 when they're on sale at Best Buy and they've always been TY. I just bought 100 this morning and they're TY- code YUDEN000T02

[lafjax]

Staples has 30 spindle for $8.94, made in Japan. No rebates or quantity limit. They're colored discs.

Sorry, they've gone back up to $42...I got mine last week...

http://www.supermediastore.com//taiyo-yuden-16x-dvd-r-4-7gb-shiny-silver-finish-100.html

[soloredd]

Sweet, thanks for the heads up. I buy the -R from Taiwan (Prodisc F01) because they always have worked for me. I know people are hard up for TY but I've gone through about 4 100 spindles of the Prodisc and haven't had one issue. Plus, BestBuy almost always has them.

[Sabro]

The 100 pack is 8x Taiwan'ians which is great for me since I've never had a problem with Fuji yet.

Sabro

[Sabro]

Opps forgot to mention the media code for this 8x +r's in the 100 pack :

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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:RITEK-R03-002]
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Disc Type : [DVD+R]
Manufacturer ID : [RITEK]
Manufacturer Name : [Ritek Co.]
Media Type ID : [R03]
Product Revision : [002]
Disc Application Code : [General Purpose]
Recording Speeds : [1x , 2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x]
Blank Disc Capacity : [Not Supported By Method 2]
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[DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com]
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Sabro

[44echo]

Staples has 30 spindle for $8.94, made in Japan. No rebates or quantity limit. They're colored discs.

Sorry, they've gone back up to $42...I got mine last week...

Maybe in your part of the world. I purchased three 30 spindles this afternoon for ~ $28. It looks like we both made out.


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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-R:TYG02]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD-R] - [DVD-R]
Manufacturer Name : [Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd.]
Manufacturer ID : [TYG02]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4,489.3MB = 4.38GB (4.71GB)]
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[ DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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[MJA]

The 50 spindle -R 8x I bought from bestbuy few months ago is TY
Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x

Pre-recorded Information:
Manufacturer ID: TYG02

[budz]

Nah really just read the label!!! :P
I figured someone may have purchased them before which is why I asked!

Really- read the label. If they're made in Japan then they're probably TY. I usually buy at least 100 when they're on sale at Best Buy and they've always been TY. I just bought 100 this morning and they're TY- code YUDEN000T02

I was being sarcastic! :P Of course I know about reading the labels

[FulciLives]

FUJI doesn't have TY DVD-R dics in 100 packs.

Some 50 packs of the DVD-R discs are TY but never the 100 packs.

Has something to do with TY only making cake packs in quantities of 50 as I understand it.

The FUJI 30 DVD-R packs at STAPLES are nice (I've bought 2) but the 2nd pack I bought (one week after I bought the 1st pack) ... I really had to hunt through the stack to find one that said MADE IN JAPAN ... seems most said MADE IN TAIWAN.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Gen-An]

Has something to do with TY only making cake packs in quantities of 50 as I understand it.

TY makes 100 disc cakeboxes, just look at the 100 disc DVD or CD spindles available online, or even the TDK-branded T02 100 disc spindles.

[BobK]

FUJI doesn't have TY DVD-R dics in 100 packs.

Some 50 packs of the DVD-R discs are TY but never the 100 packs.

Has something to do with TY only making cake packs in quantities of 50 as I understand it.

I've bought many boxes of FUJI +R's in both 50 and 100 cake packs. All have been TY. Now there may be some reason they wouldn't put their -Rs in 100 cakeboxes, but I can't think of one. Obviously it doesn't have something to do with TY only making cake packs in quantities of 50 or they wouldn't have the +Rs in 100.

[FulciLives]

All I know is that I've never seen TY DVD-R in 100 packs. If you order 100 from RIMA.COM you get 2 packs of 50.

Also the FUJI 50 packs of TY DVD-R use the exact same case that the TY DVD-R 50 packs come in when you order from RIMA.COM ... this case is WAY different than the package that the Taiwan FUJI DVD-R 50 packs use. When buying FUJI DVD-R 50 packs you can just look at the case (packaging) and know which is TY and which is not.

Course I suppose that type of stuff can change at any time.

Plus I don't bother with the +R format at all.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[BobK]

All I know is that I've never seen TY DVD-R in 100 packs. If you order 100 from RIMA.COM you get 2 packs of 50.

I've ordered TY +R from rima.com and they also come in 50 packs.

Also the FUJI 50 packs of TY DVD-R use the exact same case that the TY DVD-R 50 packs come in when you order from RIMA.COM ... this case is WAY different than the package that the Taiwan FUJI DVD-R 50 packs use. When buying FUJI DVD-R 50 packs you can just look at the case (packaging) and know which is TY and which is not.

I'm looking on my shelf which at the moment has 2-50-packs of TY from rima.com, 2-50 packs of Fuji from BestBuy and 1-100 pack of Fuji from BestBuy. All three look exactly the same and the tops and bottoms are interchagable (except of course the 100 pack top and the spindle are taller). Perhaps it's different with -Rs.

Plus I don't bother with the +R format at all.

I don't bother with -R at all- but that's mostly because my burner will burn +R at 8x but -R only up to 4x. But I bitset everything to DVD-ROM and I haven't yet seen a player that won't play them (including several that otherwise wouldn't play +R).

[lordsmurf]

I've seen 100-packs of TY media, Fuji branded, and at Best Buy. In fact, I saw them just a week or two ago. Those funny bubble spindles, just really tall.

[FulciLives]

I've seen 100-packs of TY media, Fuji branded, and at Best Buy. In fact, I saw them just a week or two ago. Those funny bubble spindles, just really tall.

Well that must be kinda new ... never saw 100 packs of Fujci DVD-R discs that said MADE IN JAPAN.

Maybe I'll have to stop by my local BEST BUY tomorrow

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[lordsmurf]

Waste of your time, they're almost never on sale. And when they are, all I find is a new stock of non-TY discs. That was the first and only time I'd ever seen the TY 100-packs.

[handyguy]

Be careful of those 150pack Tys ($38) from MicroCenter, they are windata's & thus, probably fakes.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

The first Best Buy I visited only had the Taiwanese blanks. On a whim, I stopped in another store I passed on the other side of town & was surprised to find stacks and stacks of the Japanese variety (YUDEN000T02).

[Shocker Milwaukee]

A 50 pack of Fuji is available at a Kmart near you for $17.99 this week.

The K-mart ad in my Sunday paper showed a photo of a cake of Japanese (TY) Fuji blanks, but the K-mart I visited only carried the Taiwanese.

[smearbrick1]

Got 4 of 30 Packs of Japanese Fujifilms from Staples...
$8.84 is a great deal.

[QuaiBoy]

Picking out the 30pks at Staples can be a bear. I've bought about 25-30 of them over the past six months, as they've gone on and off of the sale price. This week is the lowest yet. I bought as many as they had, 6.

There's an easy way to pick out the TYs vs Prodisc besides the label (which can take a LOT of time since the label writing is small and in the back usually). If you look at a TY pack, the yellow cake at the bottom shows through. The yellow of the TY cake is much darker than the yellow of the Prodisc cake. You only need to see them side-by-side to see the difference... then you can pick them out quickly. Of course, I then double check the label but it's never let me down.

Happy hunting,
-Evan-

[BoilerUp]

Rather than starting a new thread, I should mention that 50 packs of Fuji media are now on sale at Best Buy this week (10/2-10/8) for $18.

Other posters have mentioned that you can look at the packaging to see whether it says "Made in Taiwan" or "Made in Japan" on the label. In the case of Fuji, you can also check to see if it is a bubble-spindle or not (at least if it's a 100 pk., not sure about the others).

I also discovered that if you are standing and looking down on the Fuji spindles, you can look through the clear plastic to see if the top disc says "Made In Taiwan" or "Made in Japan". It'll say it to the right of the "RW" logo, just underneath the line for writing the contents with a felt-tip marker.

[Seeker47]

The FUJI 30 DVD-R packs at STAPLES are nice (I've bought 2) but the 2nd pack I bought (one week after I bought the 1st pack) ... I really had to hunt through the stack to find one that said MADE IN JAPAN ... seems most said MADE IN TAIWAN.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

When I bought a couple of these a few days ago, the 30-pk. spindles on their shelves were like 12 to 1 in favor of the Taiwans, so you had to dig for them and look closely. (Pretty small type.) Is this kind of multi-sourcing of the same product common ? Maybe so, because I've seen the exact same models of Seagate hard drives that were either Made in Thailand or Made in China.

Anyways, I was wondering if some of these Fujis in various colors might cause burning or reading problems for the lasers in certain burner models ? I can recall back when an older Plextor model had just such a problem with certain colored CD blanks -- a problem that was later corrected.