Best Buy 100 pack SONY DVD+R media? TAIYO YUDEN?

[budz]

Has anyone bought the SONY DVD+R 100 pack spindle from BEST BUY? I'm curious if it's MADE IN JAPAN or MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I don't wanna go down there if it's MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I'm lazy.....

[Seeker47]

Has anyone bought the SONY DVD+R 100 pack spindle from BEST BUY? I'm curious if it's MADE IN JAPAN or MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I don't wanna go down there if it's MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I'm lazy.....

Ditto. The nearest Best Buy to me is about 20 min.s away. Not your casual - curiosity kinda trip. On the other hand, Staples has the Sony 50-spindle packs (MIJ) this week for $15., which works out to the same per disc price. These have a Sony code -- not TYs. LordSmurf already pronounced the 8x version of these as being good. I'd guess that applies to these -- now 16x -- ones as well, but don't want to presume too much . . . .
I haven't had any problems with *good* 16x media yet, but because of the older burner in my Pioneer 520 and the Pioneer 108 in the computer, I did try to stock up on the 8x MIJs, when they were available.

[budz]

Has anyone bought the SONY DVD+R 100 pack spindle from BEST BUY? I'm curious if it's MADE IN JAPAN or MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I don't wanna go down there if it's MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I'm lazy.....

Ditto. The nearest Best Buy to me is about 20 min.s away. Not your casual - curiosity kinda trip. On the other hand, Staples has the Sony 50-spindle packs (MIJ) this week for $15., which works out to the same per disc price. These have a Sony code -- not TYs. LordSmurf already pronounced the 8x version of these as being good. I'd guess that applies to these -- now 16x -- ones as well, but don't want to presume too much . . . .
I haven't had any problems with *good* 16x media yet, but because of the older burner in my Pioneer 520 and the Pioneer 108 in the computer, I did try to stock up on the 8x MIJs, when they were available.

Thanks for replying! But Hawaii doesn't have a STAPLES store. I guess I'll have to drag myself down there later this afternoon.

[bbanderic]

Has anyone bought the SONY DVD+R 100 pack spindle from BEST BUY? I'm curious if it's MADE IN JAPAN or MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I don't wanna go down there if it's MADE IN TAIWAN spindles. I'm lazy.....

Ditto. The nearest Best Buy to me is about 20 min.s away. Not your casual - curiosity kinda trip. On the other hand, Staples has the Sony 50-spindle packs (MIJ) this week for $15., which works out to the same per disc price. These have a Sony code -- not TYs. LordSmurf already pronounced the 8x version of these as being good. I'd guess that applies to these -- now 16x -- ones as well, but don't want to presume too much . . . .
I haven't had any problems with *good* 16x media yet, but because of the older burner in my Pioneer 520 and the Pioneer 108 in the computer, I did try to stock up on the 8x MIJs, when they were available.

I picked up a few 50 packs (8X MIJ) from Staples today and they were indeed TY's.

[budz]

BB here in Hawaii has only spindles MADE IN TAIWAN.

[jagabo]

The nearest Best Buy to me is about 20 min.s away. Not your casual - curiosity kinda trip.

You obviously don't live in southern California!

[butt_crack]

I got the Sony 100pk DVD+r media @ BestBuy. The Media ID is :

Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID SONY D11
Media Product Revision Number 00h
UDF Format Type V1.02
UDF Volume Name &^%^%$##$%
UDF Application id None
UDF Implementation id AHEAD Nero
UDF Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 1/17/2006 5:04:26
Format Capacity 4.10GB(4.40GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 20C97Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 23 C9 7F .............#..
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 53 4F 4E 59 00 00 00 00 44 .......SONY....D
00000020 31 31 00 38 23 54 37 14 00 32 6F 00 96 6A 17 19 11.8#T7..2o..j..
00000030 0C 0C 0A 0B 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 ................

[ricoman]

I got the Sony +Rs from Staples, made in Japan Ty 02s. Same price as BB, $14.98 for a 50 pk. But the D11s are good too, bought them before.

[handyguy]

Look near a UPC code it should say made in japan. This is pretty much true of just about most media.