Ritek landscape from PCclub is B grade or even worse!!!

[budz]

Still laughing @ richdvd....You don't get the picture and probably never will...I don't care what grade the orange riteks are or some dvd org site said this or that about it ....Because they work for me and I will continue to use them...as the old saying goes, " IF SOMEONE TOLD YOU TO JUMP IN THE OCEAN, YOU GONNA FOLLOW"?
Sounds like you're the follower type huh! It's sad that you can't respect others opinions and experiences so you follow along with what anyone or everyone will say regardless if the dvd media works for others or not.

I based my own experiences using the Ritek G04 and posted them in this forum site..... I never did compare TY & MAXELL to the Ritek....I said the Riteks work for me....That's my experience using them and I won't be wasting my time debating this issue with you anymore or with anyone else....Seems to me you're either a little teenager or a adult with no life whatsoever so you spend your time being a freeking ******* to people, who basically state their personal experiences & opinions with using different brands of dvd media.

To Lacywest> You go girl! Those ratings from Pcclub.com!!!!! Whoas!
I get my orange riteks from vegas!!!

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Da Easter Bunny is coming!!!!

[Espen]

Hmmm well this thread is going nowhwere. It's great those disks works for you and they work for lots of others to. And yes many users have lots of problems with them to, that's for sure.

I made this post to warning people that they may run into trouble use these discs, but hey if someone want to take a chance I'm not the one stopping them........

[richdvd]

I don't care what grade the orange riteks are or some dvd org site said this or that about it

No, the point is you were asking several times how come it is considered Class B media. So obviously you cared about the reasonings. If they work for you, great.

[lordsmurf]

Princo has "GRADE A" media too, but it doesn't mean much.

[Angela627]

My first 25 pack was great, i then proceeded to buy 2 more packs.
2nd pack - got 10 coasters
on my 3rd pack now, we'll see what happens.

luck of the draw i guess.

Angela

[Hawseman]

My first 25 pack was great, i then proceeded to buy 2 more packs.
2nd pack - got 10 coasters
on my 3rd pack now, we'll see what happens.

luck of the draw i guess.

Angela

The infamous, but ever-present, "RITEK BAD BATCH"....I've had 2 before switching to Maxell's. I don't have the time or patience to play "which disk is bad" in my spindles. I can say that the good Ritek G04's are fabulous. They have very low PI/PO errors and seem rock solid. Good luck on your 3rd pack.

[porphyra]

See that to me is not mark of a great product. I feel quality has to be matched by consistency in order to make a product great.

Ritek has won a large (huge actually) support due to their excellent G04 and some G03 discs. But the bad batches, imo, are not excusable.

My 50 pack turns out defective, I do not have enough courage to buy another, not knowing whether i will be lucky or not. This shouldn't be a lottery. If I pay for something, I expect it to work (especially when talking about the "famed" Riteks, I wouldn't have expected anything out of Princo).

Which brings me to my CMC DVD+R discs, which have consistently worked for me. So i keep buying them. They are as cheap/cheaper than the riteks and burn great.


Hats off to you for getting to batch 3. I would have switched a long time before.

Cheers.

[richdvd]

Sounds like you're the follower type huh! It's sad that you can't respect others opinions and experiences so you follow along with what anyone or everyone will say regardless if the dvd media works for others or not

I respect most people's opinions on this site.
I think you better look at what you are saying here in this thread and understand the purpose of it. Let's finally put this to rest here.



Epsen started this thread because he was reporting some info on the cheap Ritek discs. This is a quote from his very first post

These discs (and all Ritek discs with the "landscape" pattern) are graded discs from Ritek's Taiwan production line i.e. they are B grade or lower.

He is talking about the Landscaped discs (ORANGE).
I am simply agreeing with him that I feel Grade B is correct for these discs. From personal experience and info from various sites (including this one) this seems to be the result. Then you single me out and keep pressing the fact that you want proof and documentation on why I felt they were Grade B. And now you are very offensive towards me because of my opinion.

richdvd....you are a ummm a funny person to laugh at....that's all I've got to say about you.....you say shit and got nothing to back it up with but what others have said or what you've read. Word of advice you need to think before you TYPE in a forum....

What the hell is there to backup? My opinion????
You are a real ignorant little bastard.
If you think you media is great, then fine.
Just understand that I could careless what you use for media.
Like i said before, I gave my opinion. PERIOD. Nothing else.
You can laugh all you want.
So what........ you burnt 100 without a coaster.
There have been several people who lose 50% of a spindle or more because of the flaws in the discs. Take all these facts into consideration and it definitely rules out Grade A.

[chas0039]

[quote="Espen"]Just another prof that these Ritek Landscape are B grade or worse:

http://www.dvd-recordable.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=76

quote]

Espen, much thanks for the link. It figures, Rima has not sold the orange Ritek only the silver. I wondered why, now I know. It is a shame to see a good brand go down. Glad I have enough to last a while.

[gmatov]

There is something definitely wrong here.

"For you to say you have burnt a hundred without a coaster....."

What the hell is your goal, to buy a "better" disk that will "always" give you 95 % or better good burns?

If I can burn Princo or CMC by the hundred without a coaster, why should I buy TYs and get "only" 2 or 3 % bad disks?

Sounds like the old "brainwash" again.

I am not burning to give you a copy, nor fulci, nor smurf, nor shocker, nor even Will's new little girl. They all play on my machines, or my kids machines, what do i care if they will not play on your machine?

That is, after all, the criteria for a home user. I have said before, smurf, some others who do this for a living, the best, most widely compatible media, quite all right. They don't know their client's home setup, nor what machine they might buy next year when the present machine gives up the ghost.

And, if the blank costs a dollar more, a small price to pay to satisfy a customer who might send them thousands of dollars worth of business.

For you to keep harping on "They just ain't no good!!!" for a home backup of a DVD is moronic. Goddamn, Sam, if you're gonna condemn someone for not buying 5 buck disks, which you can find at Office Depot, 5 packs for 24.99, buy a new copy of the movie instead, like Valenti said. A true backup.

Cheers,

George

Just get the hell off the "I know what's best." kick.

Sorry, Chas, I typed this before you posted. You're not "Goddamn Sam".

[richdvd]

If I can burn Princo or CMC by the hundred without a coaster, why should I buy TYs and get "only" 2 or 3 % bad disks?

You should use what is best, and I agree.
I don't think "I have burnt 100 without a coaster" is a very good arguement when you are talking about quality and grades of media, which is what we are talking about here. Budz is only 14, so it's understandable that he gets easily frustrated. Cheer up little guy

[gmatov]

rich,

You obviously don't see my point. "Yep, I agree, only use the best.." is not it.

YOU use what you have been told is "the best". I use what has given me consitently good results, granted, at a lower cost than you think "the best" should cost.

Budz is "only 14" so of course he is too dumb to know that his perfect burns are really bad burns because he didn't pay enough for his blanks.

But your 97% good burns are excellent results, because you DID pay top dollar for "the best" media. Only 3 coasters per hundred is prrreeetttyy damn good, ain't it?

Burner doesn't count, burnng program doesn't count, authoring program doesn't count, just that the big guys say "this is the absolute best, and you're an ******* if you don't use what we use" does count.

And everything else just goes, whoooosssshhhh, right over your head.

Man, I wish I had something to sell, I'd just up the price to 3 times what it's worth, probably be able to sell you a ton of them.

Cheers,

George

[richdvd]

But your 97% good burns are excellent results, because you DID pay top dollar for "the best" media. Only 3 coasters per hundred is prrreeetttyy damn good, ain't it?

yes

YOU use what you have been told is "the best". I use what has given me consitently good results, granted, at a lower cost than you think "the best" should cost.

Wrong, I use what works the best for me.
Maxell DVD-R have given me near perfect results so far.
If Ritek Orange tops worked great for me.. of course I would use them.. but they don't. The ones I had were absolute garbage.
I don't mind paying a little more for media that I know isn't going to let me down. If you can get away with cheap media that satisfies you, great.
I don't mean this in a sarcastic way either. I never stated once what I think is the "best". People have different opinions as to what the "best" means to them. I agreed with the original poster of this thread about the Grade of Ritek Landscaped media. There is just no reason to lash out against someone for there opinion. Does everyone have to provide lots of documentation and evidence to back their opinion?? Some people think so.

[gmatov]

rich,

No, the first was not a quote, it was a paraphrase, and not at you only.

The second, 97%, actually pretty good, as per your last, is not actually pretty good. I buy media, I expect 100%.

How about if you bought a dozen eggs, and found only 1 was rotten? How would you feel?

You pay good money for a good product, you expect to get a good product.

Hell, that's not it, eiher.

I will buy a sale item, wind up with a Princo, a CMC, a Ritek, a RicohJPN, and you kids say, "No, no, you can only buy THIS from THIS vendor, or you'll blow your machine up, and maybe take out the side of your parent's house." ( An exaggeration, so don't take it seriously)

How many times has it been said that you are backing up YOUR DVDs, and they only have to work on your player? Or you are converting tape to DVD, and it ONLY has to work on YOUR player?

Regardless, if the blank will burn and work on YOUR player, you are in like Flynn.

Cheers,

George

[lacywest]

rich,
Regardless, if the blank will burn and work on YOUR player, you are in like Flynn.

Cheers, George

Lets hope not ... "in like Flynn" ... I think you mean "in like Flynt" which was played by James Coburn ... he died last year.

[gmatov]

In like Flynn is one hell of a lot older than the Coburn movie, which, by the way, was pretty good.

It's an expression, not a title, though there was a book, "In Like Flynn" by Gregory MacDonald, author of the "Fletch" series.

Also very good, and as a book, entertained for longer period of time than typical 90 minute movie.

Cheers,

George

[chas0039]

More new information. The problem might be just UK and possibly not Ritek's doing



http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/22304

Off subject:
Q] From Gustavo Bruckner: “What is the derivation of in like Flynn?”
[A] Reference books almost universally assert that this set phrase, an American expression meaning to be successful emphatically or quickly, especially in regard to sexual seduction, refers to the Australian-born actor Errol Flynn. His drinking, drug-taking and sexual exploits were renowned, even for Hollywood, but the phrase is said to have been coined following his acquittal in February 1943 for the statutory rape of a teenage girl. This seems to be supported by the date of the first example recorded, in American Speech in December 1946, which cited a 1945 use in the sense of something being done easily.
The trouble with this explanation is that examples of obviously related expressions have now turned up from dates before Flynn’s trial. Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found an example from 1940, as well as this from the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942: “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. To judge from a newspaper reference he turned up from early 1943, the phrase could by then also be shortened to I’m Flynn, meaning “I’m in”.
It’s suggested by some writers that the phrase really originated with another Flynn, Edward J Flynn—“Boss” Flynn—a campaign manager for the Democratic party during FDR’s presidency. Flynn’s machine in the South Bronx in New York was so successful at winning elections that his candidates seemed to get into office automatically.
The existence of the examples found by Mr Popik certainly suggest the expression was at first unconnected with Errol Flynn, but that it shifted its association when he became such a notorious figure. Since then, it has altered again, because in 1967 a film, In Like Flint, a spy spoof starring James Coburn, took its title by wordplay from the older expression, and in turn caused many people to think that the phrase was really in like Flint.

[BobK]

> So I will not buying these even if they only cost 20$ for 25, it's not worth the risk ending up with worthless discs!

Sure isn't- $20 for 25 works out to $80 for 100. It doesn't take much searching to find Riteks for less than $80/100 with free shipping. Now if they were $10 for 25 then I take the risk.