Taiyo yuden DVD Media

[Soixante]

After seeing so many good reports about this media,i have decided to try it out.My question is does any one know of a good stockist in the UK and if so what is the best price.I have done a google search and found this http://arndalemedia.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=186 Is this a good deal??

[psx_pirate]

Try here http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/

[iooi]

Is this a good deal??

£7.99 for 25 YEP compared to SVP thats a fantastic deal...... £69 at svp for 100.. I will let the rest of you work out the savings.....
Now either there are massive p&p charges or even vat i cant say.
£3.99 p&p so thats the same....
Just got 25 to try, if they the real deal then its a steal.

[Soixante]

Yes i am going toget 25 to check them out

[garryheather]

I'm suspicious of the fact they don't list the lead-in data...

I look forward to your report !

[ejai]

I recently tried my first 50 pack of Taiyo Yuden with mixed reviews. I found the dvd-r's I made played perfectly on my JVC and Panasonic dvd players. Yet they skipped all over of the place when played on my Sony dvd player ( I have the model that is called a combo dvd/vhs recorder).

The Maxells I've recorded played well on all dvd players.

ej

[Lucius Snow]

I'm suspicious too. They don't look expensive at all compared to blankdiscshop.co.uk and os-mediatrade.de.

I'm looking for as well the cheapest place in Europe to buy DVD-R inkjet printable Taiyo Yuden TYG01 or TYG02. These two websites above are the only i've found yet. Any other suggestion ?

Cheers.

[iooi]

On the price point. SVP is £69 for 100 if you go to supermedia.com then its $78 which is approx £38.
From arndalemedia you are looking at £31 ish for 100. Yes they do look cheap, but arndale might have a better source the SVP who knows. All i know is i'm not paying £69 for 100 from SVP.
GOt comfirmation order is being processed so, so far so good.

[Capmaster]

I recently tried my first 50 pack of Taiyo Yuden with mixed reviews. I found the dvd-r's I made played perfectly on my JVC and Panasonic dvd players. Yet they skipped all over of the place when played on my Sony dvd player ( I have the model that is called a combo dvd/vhs recorder).

The Maxells I've recorded played well on all dvd players.

ej

What were the media IDs of the Taiyo and the Maxell?

[Lucius Snow]

By the way, do you know if the TYG02 has better compatibility on standalone DVD players than the TYG01 ?

I only have a 4X burner, so i don't mind the 8X speed. Since the prices of these DVD-R are approximately the same, i'm looking for the best dye in matter of compatibility.

[anaboland]

i've used TY for a long time now and they are never cheap and £69 is about the going rate for 100, only a few of months ago you would have expected to pay well over £100.

Be very careful as there is some cheap media doing the rounds that use the TY media code and these are generally the reason for poor results as TY are at the top of the tree when it comes to quality etc. These low quality fake discs have been reported on many forums.

As far as i have found genuine TY are only avaliable in tubs of 100 in the UK or 90 for the old 2x media

http://svp.co.uk/
(aka blankmedia shop)

and

www.jetmedia.co.uk

both sell genuine TY discs

If you do buy some of these cheap £7.99 spindles check the centre of the disc in the first part of the dye inside a narrow ring you should look for a batch code something like this

GG0000XX for 8x media

GD0000XX for 4x media

GB0000XX for 2X media

example:- GD000138 (4x silver inkjet printable)



If its not there i would say they are fakes as every TY disc i've seen has that type of batch code

hope this helps

[iooi]

anaboland
That helps a lot.
Never used them myself due to high price and the fact i have never had any issues with ritek G04. Trouble now is most manufactures seem to be changing to new dyes and its a bit like starting all over again. Not knowing what the hell is going to be a good disk.

[Lucius Snow]

anaboland
That helps a lot.
Never used them myself due to high price and the fact i have never had any issues with ritek G04. Trouble now is most manufactures seem to be changing to new dyes and its a bit like starting all over again. Not knowing what the hell is going to be a good disk.

I'm in the exact same situation. I've used the Ritek G04 for a year with no problem and i have to change now since that's the end of the production. From what i've been told here, the TYG01 and TYG02 dyes are the right choices.

[anaboland]

Just remembered

www.jetmedia.co.uk

Do some low quantity tester packs for dvd-r media and i'm sure they do a TY 10 disc sample pack for around £9, this might be useful for you to try them out.

Look in the Dvd printable section.

And i'm sure you will be impressed with the quality and reliability of TY discs

[iooi]

anaboland, thanks for the head's up but i cant/wont pay them sort of prices for media when they can be had cheaper. If they can sell them statside at 50% of the prce then they can do it here in the UK. Just wish i had asked my mate to get me 100 TY's when he was stateside the other week. Dont mind paying a bit of a premium on quality but not that much.

[Gen-An]

iooi, don't you know? When selling the same products in the US and the UK the sellers use the exchange rate of $1 = 1 pound. Dunno where they get that from, since it's more like $0.55 = 1 pound, but what can you do?

[anaboland]

it's depressing i know. The exchange rate is really good at the moment
but the inflated prices apply to every thing form your BigMAc meal to your Levis and Nike, and just about anything you compare. But its partly down to supply and demand, whereas UK(small country) distributors might order thousands of spindles US(Large country) distributors probably order many many times more, and this has a major effect on prices.

but bear in mind

Ritek = good quality budget disc, various branded makes, various qualitys sold ie, A grade B grade etc. You never quite know what your getting until you burn a few and do a quality test. I've seen very poor quality so call A grade.

TY = Top quality disc used by duplication companies. Contant quality giving constant test results.

at the end of day you get wot you pay for. I guess it depends on what your using them for, that decides what price you are willing to pay.


As a good budget disc i can recommend the Ritek G05 discs, the best of which i have tried are sold under Riteks own brand name in cello wrapped stacks of 50 for around £15.

[iooi]

We work on the 1 2 1 rate at work.. Its a way of balancing out any changes and carrage costs. Plus the added bonus of extra profit...
Just bought 100 ANV G05 for my main disks and trialing some datawrite printables (not sure on media code)
Never had any issues with ritek disks either G04 or G05.

[live4ever]

What about a good place in Canada to buy this media? All I got in my town is the usual crap Future Shop and Staples sell.

[ejai]

I took one of my Taiyo Yuden DVD-R disks and ran the disk through the DVDInfo program. This is the reading I got:

Media Information

Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG02
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 412352512
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 08
2x Speed OPC power 0E
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 13
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 0E 07
4x Write Strategy field 2 97 07 0D 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 18
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 85 78 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 D6 89 A8 92 01 20
4x Write Strategy field 6 10 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 87 0D 10 .l...@....R.....
00000010 66 78 80 00 03 54 59 47 30 32 00 00 04 00 00 00 fx...TYG02......
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 AA A2 22 22 20 02 00 06 08 0E 11

I guess it isn't fake but they do not work wll with my Sony SLV D350P.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

[budz]

What software are you using to burn those TYG02 discs?

[ejai]

DVD Workshop 2

[anaboland]

I don't know the in's and out's of Dvdinfopro but if it reads the media code data to display that information then any fake disc that used the TYG02 media code might produce the same information as genuine TY dics, but that would not prove the manufacturer of the disc or the actual dye type used.

takes me back a couple of years when many manufactures used the TDK media code, but only a few were actual TDK discs.

Have these disc got a TY serial number in the centre of the disc as shown in my first post

[hammy]

I could be wrong, but I think it was mentioned in another post somewhere, that the genuine TY's usually come in the Heavy duty spindle Tubs which are different to the standard spindle tubs used by the Majority of media (they have a different locking system). I have Maxell 4x (25 tub) and Panasonic printable 4x (50 tub), both of which are TY's made in Japan, and they come in the heavy duty tubs just like the ones shown on the blankdiscshop site. Although it's not the best picture the tub in the original post just looks like a standard one not the heavy duty ones.


Hammy

[iooi]

Mmm, not best impressed with their service up to press. Ordered on sunday, now wed night and still says order processing...... Not a good sign in my books.
I'm used to order on sunday recieve goods on tues or wed.

[iooi]

Had to email them as no sign of disks yet....
Even if they are proper TY's they have lost any future custom from me.....

One day on and NO reply....
Looks like a place to avoid like the plague.

[SB50]

there's some Fujifilm-branded Taiyo Yuden disks at Best Buy, $28 for a 50 pack. I was able to recognise them from the spindle, and they were made in Japan. I dont know if they ship to the UK though, and if the ones they ship will also be Taiyo Yuden.

[Senior]

supermediastore has 100 pack Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R for $45 only. That is one day sale. So hurry up if you want those best quality discs

http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-silver-thermal-8x-dvd-r-media-100.html

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[Lucius Snow]

Why are the TY inkjet printable disks always much expensive ?

That's $45 and $72 !

[iooi]

Well this company (Arndale Media) seem not to like either answering phone or emails. So AVOID them like the plague......
I am curently on to my CC co to get either payment stopped or refunded.