Bait & Switch?

[lynnsabcs]

My last order of Ritek G04 4x printable surface DVDs would only burn at 2X speed on my Pioneer A06. I didn't realize until 3/4 thru the stack. Is this a quality-control, fake re-packaged disks or a bad vendor.

Anybody else experience this?

LynnsABCs

[Bodyslide]

Who did you buy them from? Recently there have been fake Riteks being sold at various online stores and from Ebay.

See this thread:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=241948

[lynnsabcs]

An online store recommended here. It has happened a time or two. I'm switching vendors and trying another one recommended here.

LynnsABCs

[lynnsabcs]

The vendor is SupermediaStore. I don't think this is a vendor issue as much as a product/brand issue.

I ordered some Prodisc 4X from them today since I have 2 Pioneer burners and Prodisc is Pioneer certified. Price was excellent.

The 50 Ritek GO4 4X I paid $26 are going to cost me at least $6 or $7 shipping to return. Since they have free shipping to me, I'm just going to keep these to use on a slow day. I've been a Ritek user for several hundred disks so I hate to see this issue with quality/bootleg or whatever.

When trying to do a bulk burn of 25 or 50 disks, the difference between 15 min at 4X and 30 min at 2X is significant. Thankfully this board keeps us informed!!

LynnsABCs

[samijubal]

Prodiscs have been very good to me, almost 1000 of them I might have had 1 bad one. I think it was probably the recorder, but it might have been the disc.

[vrieze42]

Check the small print on the spindles and a lot of time they will say "up to 4x." My boy bought a spindle of Sonys and they all burned at 2x or 2.4x I forget which. But none burned at the 4x large print.

[lynnsabcs]

If the vendor advertises them for sale as 4X or 8X disks, they better burn at that speed or I'm switching brands.

That's why I'm dumping Ritek.

LynnsABCs