OptoDisc.. could be my problem?

[SirRipper]

I never had any problems until lately.. and the only thing I can think of is that I bought 50 OptoDisc DVD+r disc.. instead of using the Sony... Does anyone know if the OptoDisc brand is rubbish or am has my burner been messing up.. thanks...

[ejai]

RUBBISH BIG TIME! Stick to TDK and Sony, I found them to be the most consistant brands. I've had several bad encounters with Optodiscs.

[SLICK RICK]

As ejai already stated, try TDK, I have never used Sony so I cannot comment on those.

SLICK RICK

[lordsmurf]

Optodiscs are great discs, but Sony does have problems with quite a few media. This may be one of them.

[tompika]

I bought 50 OptoDisc DVD+R disc.. instead of using the Sony...

Optodisc DVD+Rs burn like shit on my Ricoh, their DVD+RWs are OK though...

[SirRipper]

Thanks for the replies.. I kinda figured it was the reason.. I had been using Memorex and Sony DVD+R disc and never had a problem... I found a good deal on the OptoDisc and decided to try them.. so I will go back to the TDK or Sony brand and see if it fixes my problem.. I'll let you guys know how it turns out.. Thanks

[SoCalMK]

OPTODISCS SUCK!

[Faustus]

Actually Optodisc is ok, but with a catch. On the -R anyway, I've used some good optodisc but my friends and myself have noticed that about 1 in 3 with our odds so far we had to send back. Sad really, btw this was reguardless of 1x/4x or Silver/Gold top. Basicly we decided Optodisc wasn't worth the risk.

[SirRipper]

Yeah no more OptoDisc for me.. what's the best media I could buy? anyone?

[GreenMonkey]

I had a 25pk of Optodisc01 DVD-Rs myself, I got cheap to go with my Pioneer burner @ Newegg, since the burner made me too poor for good disks.

Out of 20 or so burned, I got 5 slightly defective discs (pixellation, audio dropout, pause glitches). Coasters, by my standards. They passed surface scans, sort of passed DVDinfopro scans, etc. Still had problems. The rest were OK as far as I know.

Nonetheless, I have switched over to Ritek G04 media (got a 50 pk @ Newegg for $55 shipped free). I would suggest them to you as well, they are highly recommended around here for price/performance.

[Almost Human]

I just finished burning the first 100 pack of Optodisk DVD+R 2.4x (no labels) from Rima.com, used my HP DVDwriter 200i 1.51. I have NO coasters, all perfect. And I can routinely burn 4437mb and less.

Yes, I have checked each one beginning, middle, and end for errors.

[zanos]

Optodisc could very likely be worse than Princo. They are horrible. Not too long ago I ordered a one hundred spindle which were all bad so I returned it! Ok so I thought I just got a bad batch. So I ordered another 100 spindle from another company just recently and guess what? All bad!
You can't get worse than a 100% failure rate. What a major screwup of a company. Get optodisc if you want to waste time and money on shipping and returning this garbage.

[SirRipper]

Yeah guys I wish I'd have asked here before I bought 100disc myself. It would have saved me alot of headache and money.. Thanks though for helping me figure out the problem.. It seems like the Memorex disc which everyone didn't recommend works perfect for me, I burnt 2 today with no problems and watched them back .. no freezing or hangups.. Thanks again

[QuaiBoy]

I've had very few problems burning 4x Memorex DVD-Rs (CMC). Also had very few problems with Optidisc Gold 4x, but more problems than with the Memorex. I've also thrown in the towel and gone with Ritek G04s - no complaints yet.

Good luck,
-Evan-

[Cyrax9]

I ordered a spindle of Inkjet-printable Optodisc DVD-R's in mid-May, I haven't tried them yet but at the time they were supposed to be one of the best. I also ordered 10 DVD-RAM's, all burned flawlessly and only needed formatting for my DMR-HS2.

Now I haven't tried DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW from OptoDisc, but with the unopened DVD-R's sitting on m shelf and the DVD-RAM's working, is it possible Optodisc's quality took a nosedive?

Ironcially at the same time I had a 1 out of three failure rate with Memorex Discs, all of which seemmto b getting better ratings than they did last year.

To top it off, I have a buddy using Sony and TDK's and he's goten an entire package of SOny coasters, NOT ONE BURNED! I had a similar problem with Sony CD-R's and honestly, I would really lke to know what is up with them! They've always had a problem with optical media as longas I've tried to buy it anyway.

TDK has good CD-R's, but for some reason, their DVD-RAM and DVD-R Disc's are all a bit messy, 50/50 chance of a coaster, sadly enbough, I have an entire set fo VCD's burned onto TDK Disc's so I guess it's not the brand, but the type of Media.

If OptoDisc has managed to screwup their once-great DVD's, who shoudl I look to next for DVD-R's and DVD-RAM Discs?

I refuse to try Maxell, because evertime I do I get a 50%+ Coaster ratio, hal fof the 50 pack or more doesn't burn, doesn't read, or burns and fails verification, on CD-R's, same deal with DVD-R's, an I'm not even risking DVD-RAMs.

I hear Ritek is good, but I now have a bit of a standard whee I want an Inkjet Printable Surface, prefferably with a Gold Bottom for DVD-R's and they have to be reliable, I'm going to try the optoDisc DVD-R' Ihave soon, but when I got them they were said to be excellent, what happened, did they do what most companies do and loose quality control after making money hand over fist, only to realize that they have to fix this for thier next batch?

Honestly it seems like evry year one brand that was good goes bad and one that wa bad becomes good, do these gusy shuffle manufatering plants or something? The Optodisc's I ahve were made in taiwan, but that shouldn't make any differance, ditto for Memorex Disc's made in Taiwan and the oens that just say "Made in China" it's the same darn company, why arethey so different? DOes quality control differ from plant to plant? If so, that would explain why there's no constantly reliable brand of optical media.

[ejai]

My experience with Optodiscs have been nightmares. I saw earlier that some people don't mind a 1 out of 3 ratio when burning using these discs. I personally don't have the time or patience to worry about the media burnt on a disc I purchase being good or bad. I prefer consistancy and only TDK so far has given me that.

I have never, I mean NEVER burnt a coaster using TDK, but I have made many using other brands.

All N All, use what works for you.

[jersysman]

I've burned 2 spindles of Optodisc Gold with no coasters. I have a Sony also. They are very picky when it comes to media. My advice would be get a brand that works and stick with it.

[LanEvo7]

Optodiscs are questionable quality, I put them at the same level of Lead Data and a notch above Princo.

Both companies are hit or miss. I bought a stack of 50 compusa dvd-r(needed them in a hurry) made by optodisc and have gone through 30 w/o coasters. No problems yet. Probably going to buy Ritek next time since they have a lower failure rate and their prices have gone down.

[neoterixx]

Ive probably gone through some cakes of optodiscs and i've rarely had any problem when burning on to them.

[steve2713]

I bought a spindle of Optodisc 4x discs (blank silver tops) and they are terrible discs. Read errors immediately after burning, read speed tests all over the place, etc etc. And this is when burning at 2x with the best firmware available for my DVD burner - NEC 1300a with Herrie's 1.07v4. I've since tried some 1x, 2x, 4x SKY media, which is THE CHEAPEST media I've found anywhere, and this stuff actually works quite well. I'll never buy Optodisc again, this crap has HORRIBLE quality control. Here's one of the lovely Nero DVD Speed Tests -

[Bob W]

"I've since tried some 1x, 2x, 4x SKY media, which is THE CHEAPEST media I've found anywhere, and this stuff actually works quite well."

Was that Sky DVD-R media? I have had great success with the Sky 2X DVD-R however the 4X only burns at 2X on my Pioneer 105 or Sony DRU-500ax burners. The 4X media will start out at 4x but about 5% into the burn drops back to 2x.

[steve2713]

Re: the SKY Media - Yes, it is the DVD-R media I was speaking of, and the 4x media will only burn at 2x 'speed' for me also. You can select 4x burning, but it takes the ~30 minutes to burn the disc (2x speed). All three of the discs (1x, 2x, 4x) burn well otherwise, although the 2x media consistently falls off sharply at the very edge of the discs when testing with DVD speed. Example:



Where did you buy your SKY Media? Have you tried the 1x media, and if so, what kind of luck have you had? I've ordered another spindle of the 1x, so I'm hoping my burned SKY discs don't turn to crap a year from now.

[lordsmurf]

The concensus seems to follow that Optodiscs are great on PIONEER burners, but not on others.

Seeing as how I have two Pioneer drives, no real complaints here.

I'm getting a BTC drive soon (via the $58 deal) so we'll see how it handles my current media.

[Bob W]

I bought the Sky 2X and 4X DVD-R media here.
http://store.yahoo.com/yesbuy/2xdv47gb10.html

[Sam Ontario]

Yeah no more OptoDisc for me.. what's the best media I could buy? anyone?

Maxell is the best, 4X, 2X, or even 1X. +-R and +-RW all burnt flawlessly.
Only trust Memorex with 4X.

[GreenMonkey]

The concensus seems to follow that Optodiscs are great on PIONEER burners, but not on others.

I've got a Pioneer A06 - I posted above. Some glitches on about 1/4 of the Optodiscs total out of 20. After I started burning at 1x they became a lot better but still flaky. I would guess it was about 65% success rate @ 4x and about 85% success rate @ 1x or 2x. Still, I burnt a disc with less than 4 GB on it and it was glitchy in several spots.

Like I said, I went to the ever-recommended Ritek G04s - for $55 shipped Fedex Super Saver from Newegg - I got them in 3 days, for $1.10 a disc. Worth the few cents you can save getting Optodiscs, and MUCH more reliable on the whole (and actually safely burnable @ 4x!). They're pretty much what everyone else around here uses now (we're all low-level I/S support).

[mopar7]

The Ritek +R's seem pretty good, got 100 for $99 and at the time the shipping was free at the supermediastore

[rubner]

i have a sony drive and have burned almost 600 optodisc -r with not one problem whatsoever. got them from rima for 81.00 per 100.

[SirRipper]

Yeah no more OptoDisc for me.. what's the best media I could buy? anyone?

Maxell is the best, 4X, 2X, or even 1X. +-R and +-RW all burnt flawlessly.
Only trust Memorex with 4X.

Ironically enough the Memorex 4x is what I've been using after I ditched the Optodisc.. working great.. no coasters yet.. maybe Memorex stepped up the quality of their disc now... like someone else suggested.. anyway.. I can't use OptoDisc.. not only on my TDK burner but my Apex standalone DVD recorder won't work with it either.... So for now I'm staying clear of OptoDisc until they get better.

[lordsmurf]

Saying "Memorex" is great and all ... but who made them?
Media code please.