what do you think of maxell media? do the discs last?

[boss]

i bought some maxell dvd-r's from argos recently (the ones that are green and come in the dvd amaray cases) i think they might be starting to disintegrate already. has anyone else used these discs? do they last?
all the previous maxell media i have bought (floppies, cd-r's) have proved to be totally crap.
yes i know i could check the media list but these discs are'nt listed.

[Metaluna]

I've never used them but many people here feel that the Maxells are among the best, if not the best DVD-R media available today. Unlike their CD-Rs (which are often Riteks, and really aren't that bad, IMHO), Maxell makes the DVD-Rs in its own factories, I believe.

There has been some fake Maxell media floating around recently (I bought some from Meritline a few months ago -- total crap), so maybe you got some of that? Is it a Maxell-branded disc or is it a generic-looking disk with an MXL media code?

[Faustus]

Maxells and 2x Apples are the same disc (unless thats changed since last I checked apple disc), they are very good. Because of the price I've only burned about 40 of them so far but they were the very first disc I used with my burner, so just look at my joined date, every maxell I've used since then is fine. Actually I just picked up 30 of them onsale so I'm very happy.

[hbkhhh69]

I never tried Maxell CDr's, just tried the VHS's and they are fine.

[LanEvo7]

I use their -RWs and they are great. I've never gotten a burn error with them. You probably got some fakes or maybe your storage method isn't good?

[irwincur]

Disks are disks, last I checked there were only three real factories in the world that make them. Spec wise they are all very similar at this point. And they will not disintigrate for at least another 10000 years, data loss may occur at about 20 though.

[Reaper88]

About a month and a half ago i started buying maxwells and I love them. Havent had any trouble burning them at all. They burn 2x in my poinner 104 perfectly.

[Greenspock]

Metaluna is correct, there is a lot of 'fake' Maxell floating about as well as other named brands. Especially if bought thru the internet and bundled in a generic looking cake box. Does this media actually say 'Maxell' on it? You want to keep away from that fake stuff. After all, if it was any good why would they lie about them being a brand name?

[Greenspock]

Disks are disks, last I checked there were only three real factories in the world that make them.

This isn't entirely true. Even if there was only one maker of DVD media, they could still use different dyes or material or even in different factorys. After all, I can't think of any companies off hand that make exactly one kind of anything!

[overloaded_ide]

Yep, just like packaged food, much of it is outsourced.

Disks are like jelly. One factory making several brands. Several factories.

Funny thing I once had was 3 seperate companies Id's on one jelly jar.
Obviousily someone was playng games at work that day
The jar was a specific brands jar, the label was another brand, and the twist off top a third brands
Now what one of those 3 brands was actually in the jar? Or was it possibly a forth brands product? This jar came from the factory that way!

Disks are the same thing. And for those who don't know, yes factories often send out stuff they should not. If they have an extra 1,000 blank unlabled disks for say TDK and they are short on an order for Maxwell, they will use the extra to fill the order if they can get by with it!
Now maybe disks are a bad example since they do have a disk ID code, but if they can they will! I have seen many plants do this with other products!

Brandnames are used just for example, I don't know who makes what for sure.
I have seen a plant filling oil jugs and antifreeze. When they complete the order and have 1,000 gallons left in the tank what do you think they often do? Yep they change jugs and use the rest of the tank!
So for example only, they are filling prestone antifreeze jugs and the order gets filled, they pull the prestone jugs and replace em with Zerox jugs and keep filling. Same content in both jugs! Then they change to Zerox anti freeze when the tank runs out.

I have also seen factories toss products that did not pass quality control on a pile. Later they are behind on production and can't catch up, yep, they grab those so so products that did not pass the first time, and suprisingly this time they passed!!

They all seem to do this at times, and I am sure the disk factories do the exact same type things! That is probably why Brand X disks are perfect quality for so long, then all of a sudden Brand X is mostly junk for a short time. The factory runs great quality controll untill they cannot fill orders, then they hit the scrap pile and pull products that did not pass before and send em out anyways till the orders are caught up. Then back to good quality agian till next time!