I am experiencing problems burning Ritek dvdr's.....

[smokedvw]

I am experiencing problems burning Ritek dvdr's when I burn as an iso data cd. ON the dvd I am putting a variaty of movies,
it seems that every one of the last movies burned to the disc is fu<ked and will not play. I can not even copy it to my hard drive or acess it?
Why is this, I am using a pioneer a04 with 1.31 so I can burn at 2x, but even at 1x the last movie on the dvd doesnt work.

please let me know, thanks

[THE RIPPER]

Did you get them from allmedia ripoff?

[Faustus]

YOu ran ADVinfo to make sure they are really Riteks?

[Raedon]

read around, Ritek has changed their DVD-R formula and now they do not work with Pioneer burners.

[mysterio1]

read around, Ritek has changed their DVD-R formula and now they do not work with Pioneer burners.

Yeah right where did you hear trhat crap, Riteks are the best media for the money.

[boldego]

Where can you get AdvInfo?

[boldego]

Nevermind I found it. Have to use a better search engine than MSN.

[Raedon]

read around, Ritek has changed their DVD-R formula and now they do not work with Pioneer burners.

Yeah right where did you hear trhat crap, Riteks are the best media for the money.

I heard it here Check it out.. Ritek's are NOT the same anymore.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145873

BTW, the 7/Y falls in the byte pattern that defines the Write Strategy for the disc, so that indicates they are of a different dye composition at the very least. So either they are of lower grade, or the Pioneer firmware can't handle this write strategy very well. (It's bytes 11-14 of the 0Eh page if anyone cares).

[Faustus]

Raedon: i have a new shipment of riteks and they are fine. My friend has a 100 pack of the P Y ones and he only burns at 1x so they have been zero problems. I've burned Y's in the past at 2x according to some looking back though burned disk and never even noticed it. I dont really think its an issue. I'm not saying they are the same quality but its close enough that I've not noticed a difference until someone said there was one.

[WLJ101]

I burn PS2 DVD game with Riteks and 2 out of 10 dvd skips on intro and in the games.... I bought 100 spindle. And I am trying to find verbatim .

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WLJ!O!

[Faustus]

Riteks are not very good for PS2, Verbatims are more along the lines of what you will need.

[Raedon]

I use the old Ritek's with my V7 PS2 and no problems.

[Raedon]

Raedon: i have a new shipment of riteks and they are fine. My friend has a 100 pack of the P Y ones and he only burns at 1x so they have been zero problems. I've burned Y's in the past at 2x according to some looking back though burned disk and never even noticed it. I dont really think its an issue. I'm not saying they are the same quality but its close enough that I've not noticed a difference until someone said there was one.

Just making sure here.. you have burned this EXACT coded Ritek with a Pioneer DVD-R?

All the Ritek's I've had didn't have the 7 and they have all worked great.. People who are burning coasters in Pioneer drives were using these new discs.

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 37 0E 0B .B...@....P..7..
FE FF 80 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 47 00 04 30 33 00 .....RITEKG..03.

Please confirm.

[Gabriel]

Raedon: i have a new shipment of riteks and they are fine. My friend has a 100 pack of the P Y ones and he only burns at 1x so they have been zero problems. I've burned Y's in the past at 2x according to some looking back though burned disk and never even noticed it. I dont really think its an issue. I'm not saying they are the same quality but its close enough that I've not noticed a difference until someone said there was one.

Just making sure here.. you have burned this EXACT coded Ritek with a Pioneer DVD-R?

All the Ritek's I've had didn't have the 7 and they have all worked great.. People who are burning coasters in Pioneer drives were using these new discs.


00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 37 0E 0B .B...@....P..7..
FE FF 80 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 47 00 04 30 33 00 .....RITEKG..03.

Please confirm.

I bought two of these discs (exact same code) in a sample pack and both burned perfectly in my Pioneer 105.

[Faustus]

Yes I have burned BOTH types of Riteks the P.7 and P.Y, no problem except recenly but that turned out to be my burner dying so it doesn't count

[Bob W]

I have 100 Riteks from supermedia and they burn at 2x with my Sony 500a (firmware version 1.0d) but on the Pioneer 105 they burn at 4x, weird .

[jacknjt]

haha 2 bad
it seem like you all wasting your time and money with RITEKS. imagine the time and the movies you have lost. y not just buy good brand name in your local store that may only cost as little as 10 or 20cents more. you buying quality with good return policy. also to help your local economy

[Bob W]

haha 2 bad
it seem like you all wasting your time and money with RITEKS. imagine the time and the movies you have lost. y not just buy good brand name in your local store that may only cost as little as 10 or 20cents more. you buying quality with good return policy. also to help your local economy

Never had a bad disc and so far I have bought 300. I did buy 15 Verbatim discs at BestBuy that proved to be defective in the last 500MB of the discs.

[LanEvo7]

Just ignore jacknit, according to him, all unbranded media is crap.


Anyway, I've had the same issues with Ritek G03's recently, I forgot which media code it was. The end of the disc would skip and freeze. I switched to DUP-EZ DVD from Rima(silver tops, white tops comming in this week). No problems so far with silver tops, burns all 4.3gigs flawlessly.