YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR???NOT ALWAYS

[Tommyp1972]

It may be true about most things but dvd media is not 1 of them..i've had $1.50 Sony's,Verbatims,Maxells, HP's and Memorex's mess up more than my $0.37 prodiscs ever have...you take your chances with ANY brand but lately my prodiscs have been bulletproof..even though i am an advocate of Prodiscs,i know eventually that they will start makin crappy disks to save $$ and i will need to find a different brand.If any disagrees with me please post.
$$$$ doesn't always = quality
been doin this since i had a Pioneer A03..so i sorta kinda know a little more of nothing than some

[Capmaster]

I think you will be able to find exceptions. As you say, once they find out they can contract with CMC and save a bunch, they'll start turning out crap too. It seems all the bargain brands do eventually.

But I'd sooner trust a quality media (read Apple, Pioneer, Taiyo Yuden, Maxell ...several various Japan-made DVDs) and pay a little extra. And lately you can get even "the good stuff" for fairly cheap. You know they're not going to all of a sudden develop dye issues and leave you with 30 coasters in that spindle. That's happened to me many times.

[jtoolman2000]

Call me lucky, but I've had good luck with just about all types of media. I have backups over two years old done with the early versions of Shrink / Nero on unbranded Princos, Comp USA crap brand that still play well on all my machines as well as with TY / Maxell / Verbatin / Ritek / Prodisk and others. The only time I;ve ever had bad unplayable burns was when I tried some Optodisks 4x printables. They would crap out when burned at 4x but were good at 2x

[lordsmurf]

Price is not a determination for media. Never really was, not for long anyway.