Optodiscs... not that bad!

[SyndicateFoo]

I just got a 10-pack of regular optodiscs (not the gold ones) and I have to say that they are not that bad at all. I have always used Riteks but they're always out of stock so I went with optodiscs.

Anyone know if the gold ones are any better? These regular ones have the ugly blue tops on them.

Anyone know about durability? I don't want these optodiscs to crap out on me in a year like everyone says cheap media does.

[Tommyknocker]

Well, I hope you quantify that statement, as I own a Cendyne A04, and I would like to show you my new 10 piece set of coasters:

[kiki]

The blue one's are a tad on the ugly side.
However. I have burned 600+ over the last year with zero problems.
A friend of mine has burned 300+ with the same positive results.
All have been blue tops, I have no experience with the golds.
The first one that I burned still plays perfectly on any of my players a year later.
We both burn with pioneer 105,s.
In the reply you got from TOMMYKNOCKER.
Please note that he was using -RW.s NOT -R,s.
I have had the same dissapointing results with their rewritables on the pioneer. I am assuming that they are not supported in the pioneer,s firmware. I swithched to maxell -rw,s and they work with the pioneer.

Best of Luck
kiki

[orbital517]

The Gold Optodiscs are great media. I've gone through 200 disks and am awaiting another 100pack this week that I ordered from Rima.com (.82 each). Great disks at a great price.

[falberni]

I've burned about 100 of the blue tops and close to 50 of the gold tops. There's no difference in quality. They're great.

[ROBERT BLACK]

I've had some trouble with Opodisc DVD-RWs. It resulted in a couple of coasters. Some of the DVD-RW discs don't seem to erase or burn properly. The blue top DVD-Rs are fairly decent. I've had one coaster with those, which has turned me off to them a bit. But that's one out of many burned Blue tops.