Platinum Series DVD-R from Microcenter..a good buy???

[RKelly]

I saw they had these 25 pack for $19.75 It says they are manufactured by Bencole. Are these crap or are they decent? thanks

[kasanova11]

I was wondering the same thing and hoping somebody would comment. That is a very cheap price but I am sure they are princo or cmc mag disks. Maybe I will still give them a try and post the results if I get them.

--Nick

[RKelly]

Well I got a pack today, and so far so good. They burn well at 4x speed, I have not produced a coaster. And the best part is they are cheap! Bencole manufacturing is apparently new on the market, made in Hong Kong

[Faustus]

Have you used DVDinfo Pro on them to figure out the manufactuer code. "It works" from one person doesn't mean its a new disc and not just another rebrand of CMC. The code tells all.....

[RKelly]

This is the media code I got, I don't know what that exactly means though.

Media code/Manufacturer ID-->AN31

[Faustus]

Thanks for the info. Look here:

https://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?dvdmediasearch=&dvdmediadvdridsearch=AN31&type=6&...+or+List+Media

[Regal]

Just cerious if anyone else tested these? So how are they??

Yay on Nay?

[RKelly]

I have burned roughly 100 of these discs with no problems. Good buy for me! I use a Pioneer 106

[derrick972]

DO buy!!!..they are well worth it...I have burned 75 to 100 of these with NO coaster to date!

[ckdexterhn1]

I brought some from my local MicroCenter. The first 25 were AN32 which burned great in my Sony 510, but the disc had little scratches near the outer edge so not good for full disc burns. I then brought more that were AN31, but those would not burn at all for me, which is strange because I've used Sky DVD-R which had the same media code with no problem.

[hififan]

Hate to be the downer.

I purchased two hundred form MEI Micro Center at 69 cents each. Forty five discs successfully burned. Not one played back without a problem. The recorded material did not exceed 3.7 GB. The media code was AN32.

Some discs stuttered in various places.others had pixilation in scene transitions, and a group of discs kept stoppng before the end.

The burned side looked fine--no smears or defects.

Visibly, these are nice looking discs. I am sorry that they did not work in my any of my drives: two Pioneer dvr105 and one Panasonic LF D521.

I did not try these discs in my panasonic dvd recorder.

Thankfully, MEI Micro gave me a full refund.

[bluerazor]

I've burned 100 of the Sky 2x media with the media code AN31, no problems yet.