Questions About Ty Media

[mccoady]

I have a Pioneer 106 and 107 and think I'm interested in buying some White Inkjet Printable Ty's, either 4X or 8X but need some info. I don't have one yet but I plan to buy a Epson R200.

1. Rima sells Ty 4X-R per 100 for $115 plus ship while SupermediaStore sells Ty 8X-R per 100 for $122 and 8X+R per 100 for $125 plus ship. Should I just get the 4X since they are cheaper?

2. Should any of the above burn okay in my Pioneers?

3. Does anyone know if these two stores ever run sales on the Ty media or if someone else has legit Ty cheaper?

4. These are for backing up my own personal dvds, would Prodisc serve the purpose just as well (plus being alot cheaper) even though there is some question about what you're actually getting now?

[lordsmurf]

These are all pretty much personal choices.

Pioneer, yes fine.
Cheaper, doubt it.
Prodisc for simple stuff, I would.
TY for important stuff, I would.

[mccoady]

Thanks Lordsmurf, I just wonder what you would call simple stuff and important stuff, all I use my dvd media for is backing up my dvds, pretty much nothing else. I mean would you actually see a difference between Ty and Prodisc backing up dvds? And do I understand you right that no matter what brand of media stay with 4X?
I did by the way buy some Ty cd-rs even though I had never had a problem with cheaper media, I just did it for my own piece of mind. Of course there's alot of difference in price between buying 100 Ty cd-rs and 100 Ty dvd-rs.

[solarfox]

I have a Pioneer DVR-A07, and the 4X Taiyo Yuden DVD-R's burn just fine in them, so I don't see why you'd have any problems either. Only you can decide whether the difference in burn speed is worth the $8 difference in price between the 4X and 8X media, though.

I'd be surprised if anyone has legitimate TY media cheaper than that; $1.10 - $1.25 a disc seems to be about the going rate. (Which is still a heck of a lot better than it was even a year ago!)

As to whether cheaper media like Prodisc would be OK... I guess it depends on how valuable you consider the contents. For making backups of Disney films for the kids to watch(*), cheap discs are probably fine since they're going to get bunged up anyway. For archiving of irreplacable, out-of-print VHS tapes and laserdiscs, I wouldn't trust anything but top-of-the-line media.

(* [i]and yes, there are many legit reasons to do this, not the least of which is stripping out the ten minutes of front-loaded previews that they make it as difficult as possible to skip over so as to program your kids to pester you to death for every soulless direct-to-video sequel they can crank out. )

[aanaravs]

Non inkjet 8x TYs are about 89 cents each at Rima.com

[overloaded_ide]

(* [i]and yes, there are many legit reasons to do this, not the least of which is stripping out the ten minutes of front-loaded previews that they make it as difficult as possible to skip over so as to program your kids to pester you to death for every soulless direct-to-video sequel they can crank out. )

Even worse is the fact you already own 90% of the garbage they are forcing you to watch the comercail for!! Grrrr. I hate that, if I wanted to watch Lion King I would have put that in the player instead!!!! It ain't like I don't already have it laying around here somewhere already!!!


Actually if your wanting good disks and can use them, I think I would pop the extra for the 8X. I mean it's what 7-10 cents a disk difference? Really depends on you, will they burn for you in 8 minutes instead of 15 minutes and do you care rather it takes the extra 7 minutes or not?
Myself, I seldom would care about the burn time, not like we're talking 15 -30 minutes difference like with 2x or 1x speeds! But then again sometimes it would be nice to have faster disks around for when I'm in a hurry for 6-8 copies of an orginal content DVD to take somewhere. SO that's just user opinion, as long as the quality of the disk is the same.

I use Ritek printables, 4X because 8X was super high when I bought these awhile back. I should buy some 8X's now that they're cheaper and just use which ever fits the time frame best when burning. If not in a hurry use 4X and if I need several copies quick use 8X.

I think for DVD backups I would want the 8X sometimes too. Quite often I never watch the original DVD at all. I buy it, back it up, put away the master, watch the backup!
That might be a time when I'd like the extra burn speed.

Another place to check for disks is Newegg.com. If you were considering lower cost disks anyway, Newegg had Ritek 8X printable +R on sale a few days ago for $30/50 that's $60/100 if you buy 2 packs! I think I saw them last night for $33/50 now, sale over, but free shipping or cheap shipping.
That was +R, maybe -R are cheap too. Was just something I run across, wasn't checking disk prices in particular since I have alot right now still.

I buy most my computer hardware at newegg, but not disks yet. Just haven't needed any yet since they started selling the ones I use.
For hardware you can't beat the service and prices for most items and often free shipping too. I was buying my disks at rima.com last few times. Another good place to check prices.

[mccoady]

If I just decide to go with the cheaper Prodisc then 8X would be preferable to 4X? Also would you get - or +?

[lordsmurf]

Only if you can burn 8x.
I know 4x work, so those are the only ones I'll personally suggest.