Ritek Vs Princo:Which is higher quality and more reliable?

[Super Warrior]

For a while i've been useing the 1x/white top princo DVD-R media from www.allmediaoutlet.net/amo They are cheap and have worked fine for me as far as i know.But i read stories about bad media and some discs that stop working after 8-12 months.And the possibleity of buying a bad batch later on and burning 20+discs that have problems 5 months down the road is bothersome.

So i've been looking into other cheap affordable DVD-R media and heard ritek is good.I've even heard guys on techtv like leo say they only use ritek and its great.

But is it that much more reliable and worth useing over princo?

Also i'm planning on buying either an NEC-1300A or a LiteOn LDW-411S burner soon.Will they burn Riteks?

[SLK001]

Almost anything is better than Princo. Ritek is an excellent low-cost disc.

[Super Warrior]

Almost anything is better than Princo. Ritek is an excellent low-cost disc.

Whats the best price for a 25 pack of Ritek 1x DVD-R media?

[Bricktop]

Ritek hands down mate. All day every day.
Regarding price...where are you? States or Britain?

[SLK001]

Almost anything is better than Princo. Ritek is an excellent low-cost disc.

Whats the best price for a 25 pack of Ritek 1x DVD-R media?

I get them for $0.35 each for printable media. Why don't you tell us what you can get them for?

[iooi]

Ritek all the way...
70p a Disk for the printable ones in the Uk.
Cant find any Pinco ones to pricematch against...

[rixh]

princo are shit mate i had lots of coasters with them... always sticking near end of movies, i only buy Ritek disks now the best.

[sitlet]

ritek, hands down

[hech54]

Same here....Ritek G03 and G04's for me.

[Super Warrior]

Ritek hands down mate. All day every day.
Regarding price...where are you? States or Britain?

U.S

[Super Warrior]

I get them for $0.35 each for printable media. Why don't you tell us what you can get them for?

Allmediaoutlet the online store where i normally buy my princo discs,has a 25 pack of ritek media for $26.
http://www.allmediaoutlet.net/amo/p_proddetail.php?kitNbr=279

And a 50 pack for $51.Kinda expensive as a 50 pack of princo media is only $32.

[Super Warrior]

Same here....Ritek G03 and G04's for me.

Whats the difference between Ritek GO3 and GO4?

[SLK001]

And a 50 pack for $51.Kinda expensive as a 50 pack of princo media is only $32.

You can get a ton of cow manure for $32. Wait... a ton of cow manure is useful.

[Super Warrior]

You can get a ton of cow manure for $32. Wait... a ton of cow manure is useful.

Do you know what GO3 and GO4 means?

[aglips]

G03 is only 1x while G04 is 1-4X.

These are the only 2 media I use.

[tompika]

Whats the difference between Ritek GO3 and GO4?

2x vs 4x

[Super Warrior]

Is there a price or quality difference between GO3 and GO4?

These discs here must be GO3 then since it looks like its only 1x/2x media: http://www.allmediaoutlet.net/amo/p_proddetail.php?kitNbr=279

Also what do you all think of allmediaoutlet?

[Bodysurf]

So i've been looking into other cheap affordable DVD-R media and heard ritek is good.I've even heard guys on techtv like leo say they only use ritek and its great.

But is it that much more reliable and worth useing over princo?

Princos are total garbage. Bad sectors and hard to read discs, especially on the outer portion of the DVD-R, are very common. And good luck finding any Princos that even burn reliably at >2X even if they are rated for 4X.

Grade A Ritek G04 4X DVD-R media, with the matte tops, are the best DVD-Rs available for the money. They can be bought, in bulk, at <$1 each.

The only thing better than Riteks are 4X Taiyo Yudens (~$2.00 each) and official Pioneer media ($$$).

[tommyoz]

One of these days none of the DVDr's (princo, ritek etc....) are going to be working. Then you'll say "Damn I should've had them pressed".

[gravyonmychin]

Welll i'll be the pig in the poke! Yes Ritek are indeed very good, but personally having burnt hundreds of perfect Bulkpaq tangoes and Datawrite yellows (both 4x Princo Dye) which have played on anything and games consoles flawlessly its not fair to write them off (excuse the punn) when comparing price...50p as apposed to £1. Especially if your working to a tight budget. As they say..everyone to their own...suck it and see! Best advice is to buy a sample pack and judge for yourself.

[Bricktop]

Welll i'll be the pig in the poke! Yes Ritek are indeed very good, but personally having burnt hundreds of perfect Bulkpaq tangoes and Datawrite yellows (both 4x Princo Dye) which have played on anything and games consoles flawlessly its not fair to write them off (excuse the punn) when comparing price...50p as apposed to £1.

Gravyonmychin - You can get ritek G03s for the same price as bulkpak tangos now mate.

[StarofRadiance]

Almost anything is better than Princo. Ritek is an excellent low-cost disc.

Whats the best price for a 25 pack of Ritek 1x DVD-R media?

I work in the Legal Video/Deposition field, so at work we go through 100+ DVD's per month. Ritek, easily. I get Ritek 4x DVD-R from supermediastore (California, USA) for as little as $0.56.

Whatever you do, avoid Princo and Khypermedia. I've had very high failure rates with both (10% or so). So far my failure rate with Ritek is 0% - not a single failure in well over 500 burns.

[Viper10000]

Star Warrior,

Currently, these 2 places that have good prices on Ritek media:

1. At www.Shop4Tech.com, 50-Pk Ritek 1x-2X is $47.50, and their 1x-4X 50-Pk Ritek is going for $52.50
2. At www.newegg.com, a 50-Pk 1x-4X Ritek is $48.99

I think both are offering free S&H on those mentioned products.

Cheers

P.S. About Princo, I never have problem with them using a combination of Nero 5.5 + Sony DW-10A. I do like them, but I think Ritek maybe will be better in the long run. Well, only the future can tell if my data burned on the Princo survived or not.

[tonx]

approx 1500 burns-
ritek=100% success rate
princo=50% success rate
for the price difference its not worth it mate & the bad princo's
always seem to fail on the most important burns.princo's will
cost you more in the end & you'll probably lose your hair!!

[lpn1160]

Is this a trick question??

[ckdexterhn1]

I get Ritek 4x DVD-R from supermediastore (California, USA) for as little as $0.56.

How many do you have to purchase to get that low of a price?

[StarofRadiance]

I get Ritek 4x DVD-R from supermediastore (California, USA) for as little as $0.56.

How many do you have to purchase to get that low of a price?

600, last I checked. But even if you buy only 100, you get highly reliable Riteks for under $1.

[ckdexterhn1]

600, last I checked. But even if you buy only 100, you get highly reliable Riteks for under $1.

Is there a special link on the site for that price? Coupon? I have no problem buying that many for that price!

[wulf109]

I've burned 350-400 Princo's and not one coaster. Mostly 1x,but 4x lately.
I burn to their full capacity,4480MB's and never had a problem.
Burned with Pioneer 04 and 06,I wonder if the burner makes a difference?

[nepnerd]

Maybe the burner makes the difference, like wulf109 says.
I burned many princo's with the pioneer A04 and never had a problem in every standalone and PS2. Also I burn with NERO 5.5.10.42 (not the favorite burning programme of most people on this forum) in neroexpress.
Since 3 months a own a pioneer A06 and also have no problems with princo. Burning at 4x speed (capacity 4472mb's). Test it on many standalone players (pioneer, sony, philips and the cheap ones) and no problems.

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