What DVD-RW brands are you using in your JVC DR-M10

[buick]

I bought some Ridata dvd-rw the other day and they didnt work in the above player. I know memorex and pioneers will work but a bit costly. thanks

[hech54]

OK....even I will admit that Ridata -RW's are junk. But buying Memorsux? That is a 50/50 chance of getting quality discs.
Buying quality RW's is just tough period....especially in retail places like Circuit City, Best Buy....etc etc.
Alot here are trying Prodisc DVDR's....might want to try them.

[spummerr]

I use Fuji- -r & -rw Never a problem

I bought some Ridata dvd-rw the other day and they didnt work in the above player. I know memorex and pioneers will work but a bit costly. thanks

[Neuron]

TDK-RW and Maxell-R/Sony-R/TDK-R
Have never had any problems with those.

[midnightsun]

I have the 80GB hard disk equipped model. What I've been using is Verbatim MCC 2x -RW's and TDK 2x -RW's. I should point out that I always record to hard disk and then dub to -RW. In any case I've never had a problem with these discs.

[samijubal]

TDK-RW and Maxell-R/Sony-R/TDK-R
Have never had any problems with those.

Where do you get the TDK RWs? I cant find them in anything smaller than a 25 pack, I only want 5 or 10.

[tag]

Where do you get the TDK RWs? I cant find them in anything smaller than a 25 pack, I only want 5 or 10.

5-packs at CompUSA for $12.99: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?ref=yahoo&pfp=yahoo&product_code=302380

[Neuron]

TDK-RW and Maxell-R/Sony-R/TDK-R
Have never had any problems with those.

Where do you get the TDK RWs? I cant find them in anything smaller than a 25 pack, I only want 5 or 10.

Walgreens in PA and they only have them in 5-packs.

[Offroad]

OK....even I will admit that Ridata -RW's are junk.

When I first got my JVC I bought 25 Ritek 2X -RW's from Meritline and have had no problems at all. I wish I'd bought a few more.

If I take a finalized disc to my PC and use Kprobe to scan it on my Liteon 812S burner the error rates are about as low as Maxell -R's. I know that Ritek quality can vary but its usually pretty good media.

Your results may vary but I'm happy.

[broadway]

Mostly have Fuji -RW (5pk) that I bought at Best Buy. No problems.
Also, have 2 Sony that I bought at Target.

[pepegot1]

<<I use Fuji- -r & -rw Never a problem >>

So do I and no problem. They are Taiyo Yuden discs.

[hech54]

OK....even I will admit that Ridata -RW's are junk.

When I first got my JVC I bought 25 Ritek 2X -RW's from Meritline and have had no problems at all. I wish I'd bought a few more.

If I take a finalized disc to my PC and use Kprobe to scan it on my Liteon 812S burner the error rates are about as low as Maxell -R's. I know that Ritek quality can vary but its usually pretty good media.

Your results may vary but I'm happy.

I had a 5 pack of Ritek -RW's my dad bought by mistake....his DVD Recorder is a + machine. Anyway I only used them in my computer(my DVD Recorder is a + also) and I really HATED those things. Every other re-write gave me an error so I chucked them in the garbage (angrily I might add) and broke out my old reliable BenQ's(+RW's)....these thing are awesome in my computer.
Maybe I was doing something wrong....I don't know.
I am a faithful Ritek "non RW" fan.....always have been. Even back in the 1x and 2x days. Those were all I ever used in my Philips DVD Recorder and those old discs are still perfect.
It's the RW Riteks that gave me problems.

[samijubal]

So from reading this I guess the Fujis from Best Buy are problem free? I have a Best Buy pretty close and they have them, can't find TDK local and 3 Maxells are more the one place I can find them than the 5 Fujis are at Best Buy. I've never used an RW disc in anything. How fast do they read in the PC? I have an NEC 3500. Got to be faster than RAMs I'm hoping.

[lordsmurf]

The Fuji's from Best Buy are fine. I have 10 myself.

[xiaNaix]

I highly recommend the Fuji media as well. Never had a problem with them yet.

[cchang]

OK....even I will admit that Ridata -RW's are junk.

When I first got my JVC I bought 25 Ritek 2X -RW's from Meritline and have had no problems at all. I wish I'd bought a few more.

The key word here is "2X". JVC and most of the - recorders will only take 2x DVD-RW, not the newer 4X. It is a compatibility issue, not a quality issue. The 4x DVD-RW discs can only be used in a 8X DVD burner which most of the recorders are not yet using.

see:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239799&highlight=dvdrw

[samijubal]

Are those Fuji discs made in Taiwan?

[lordsmurf]

Are those Fuji discs made in Taiwan?

Probably

[piano632]

The Fuji 2x -RW are currently made in Singapore by MCC.

[samijubal]

They are Singapore, the Rs were Taiwan.

[buick]

Good point cchang I think the ones I purchased was 4x and it wont read them at all. I did a search at bestbuy on the fuji and didn't see 2x dvd-rw just 1x which is to slow for me but thanks for all the input on the disk that do work, time to go shop!

[Offroad]

just 1x which is to slow for me

I don't think this will make a difference unless you are writing them on the PC. All the recorders, (at least those without a hard drive) write at 1X.

If your just using them to watch recorded programs or to rip to PC for editing, 1x should be as good as 2x since the read speed during ripping to the PC shouldn't be any different. Burning one on the PC would be long wait however, compared to the 4x +RW's I use for data backups and for testing my home movie DVD's.

[lordsmurf]

The Fuji 2x -RW are currently made in Singapore by MCC.

Yeah, that's right. I long ago tossed my boxes/cases.

[buick]

Offroad do you think 1x will do video in realtime on these recorders, I have been using it some to record shows and watch on the spot, but my main thing is to do my home video's and dump them to my PC to author and been working great and fast.

[cahusker]

Are those Fuji discs made in Taiwan?

Probably

I bought a 6 pack of +R's and they were from Taiwan. Also bought a 25 pack spindal that was made in Japan.

[Offroad]

Offroad do you think 1x will do video in realtime on these recorders, I have been using it some to record shows and watch on the spot, but my main thing is to do my home video's and dump them to my PC to author and been working great and fast.

1x "is" realtime both for recording and playback, so a 1x disc should be fine for recording or playback. The recorders with Hard drives will do high speed dubing from the hard drive to a DVD so you would probably want something faster if you have a hard drive recorder.

For ripping to a PC for authoring, a 1x RW shouldn't be read any slower than a 2x or 4x, the read speed is a function of how your PC DVD burner handles reads on a particular "type" (-RW, -R, +RW etc) of disc not the speed of the disc itself.

[Matt_]

I just finished hooking up a JVC-DRM10S for my family, and I have a question that I don't think I've seen addressed.
Before choosing the brand and model of DVD Recorder, I had spent some time reading the different discussions here and at avsforum.com regarding choosing DVD-R's and about paying attention to the country where the DVD-R's were made.
People were frequently saying that if you were buying, say, Fuji, to look for the packaging saying that the Fuji DVD-R's were made in Japan, i.e. the manufacturing plants in Japan are producing much higher quality blank DVD-R's than the plants in Taiwan, Malaysia, et al.
But in researching opinions in that forum and this one, this "Made in Japan" rule doesn't appear to apply to DVD-RW's.
Because I'm new to all this, I had gone to the effort of checking out a lot of boxes of DVD-RW's and had finally found a box of Sony brand DVD-RW's made in Japan.
I thought it was an interesting situation that where the manufacturing plant is is so critical for DVD-R's but that apparently it is not critical in the case of DVD-RW's. I noticed on the store shelves the brands of DVD-RW's that you all are saying you're happy with, and those ones (at least at the stores in my area) are made in Singapore/Malaysia/and or Taiwan.

[pepegot1]

FugiFilm -RW's made in Singapore. No problems!

[xiaNaix]

Yes, DVD-RW is a completely different animal. I've got a few of those Singapore Fuji's and they've been working great.

[Synergy]

But in researching opinions in that forum and this one, this "Made in Japan" rule doesn't appear to apply to DVD-RW's.
Because I'm new to all this, I had gone to the effort of checking out a lot of boxes of DVD-RW's and had finally found a box of Sony brand DVD-RW's made in Japan.

Actually the same rule still applies to DVD-RW or any other media, except that you rarely find made in Japan DVD-RW media sold in the US. Taiyo Yuden and Maxell don't make DVD-RW on their own (TY has even stated on their website that they have no plans to manufacture rewritable media). Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (formerly Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation) has plants in both Japan and Singapore, but normally the media made in Singapore are sold outside Japan, and MKM or MCC made in Singapore media are almost as good as made in Japan stuff.

You'd better get hold of those made in Japan DVD-RW and/or DVD+RW media if possible, they will disappear quickly since Sony has switched the production to Taiwan as usual. See the following link for the quality of these made in Japan Sony DVD+RW discs (DVD-RW should be similar):

http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=113237

BTW, if these Sony DVD-RW media are 4X, you can't use them with most standalone recoders except the Pioneer DVR-220/225/420H/520H series.