Radio Shack has some Phillips DVD's sorta on sale...

[kschang]

Though at 25 per $7.99 it ain't exactly cheap, but if you only need small batches it ain't that bad. At least it's not generic.

[kschang]

The media turns out to be CMC. It is 16X rated though, and so far has no problems in my 16X drive.

[SingSing]

That's about Bestbuy current pricing : $6.99 for 25 Memorex disc.

[gll99]

I tried the Philips +R 16x in the 100 pack and they were CMC MAG M01.

They mostly burned ok at the rated 16x speed but about 5 discs just quit early in the burn. I continued a couple in multisession mode and those were readable even though I lost 100mb or so but I won't likely buy them again.

I've had good success with 16x +R Memorex RICOHJPNR03 but so far the best 16x disc I've used are Verbatim +R MCC 004 (Futureshop $29.99 ca per 100). I have yet to have a failed burn with the Verbatim and my burner doesn't sound like a jet revving its engines before takeoff.

btw) I burn all these discs at the rated 16x speed in an LG-4163b and bitset to dvd-rom. I had some failures reading divx with the Philips discs in my dvd-642 but they worked fine on my computer drives.

[Wile_E]

I wonder if CMC ever fixed their longevity problem. I had some Memorex CD-R's made by CMC. After about one year in storage, some of them went bad. I no longer buy Memorex or anything made by CMC.

I recently went to Fry's and was suprised to find some Maxell DVD+R (MXL) made in Japan. $9.99 for 25pack. I'd rather pay more for better media. I don't want my family photos and videos to fade away.