An Interview with Tim Smith, Sales and Marketing for Ridisc

[chas0039]

Very interesting comments. A must read for anyone who still uses Ritek/Ridisc.

Sorry ahead of time if the Mods move this to news but I think it is more relevant to media buyers.

http://www.ridisc.com/interview.htm

[saxomatic]

well thats a very sad news ... it will convince many Ritek Addict like myself to move to TY !

[lordsmurf]

Ritek made shit and knew it. News to me? Nope.

Ridisc leaving RITEK dye for "higher quality" CMC dye?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Got to be one of the funniest things I read all day.

"Ridisc are as closely linked as Santa Claus" .....
My thoughts exactly. Ridisc/Ritek "quality" has a similar relationship.
Neither of them exist.

[steve2713]

The article mentions their problems with G05, but doesn't mention R03 (the 8x +R media). I'm guessing they also had similar issues initially with their R03 media, which is probably why it was originally, and still sometimes is, being packaged and sold as only 4x rated media. They probably weren't confident enough in the R03 media early on to sell it as 8x media, so they just sold it as 4x media.

[joeg04]

Hi,

I read, RiDisc is using TDK dye, produced in a CMC plant. I think, a TDK dye should have good quality.
See also:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1079853&highlight=ridisc#1079853

[lordsmurf]

That post seems to be unconfirmed.
Anyway, if it's really TDK and not CMC, great.

[joeg04]

At least, they are advertised as "TDK-RiDisc", see:
http://www.dvdrohlinge24.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/3_4_55/products_id/563

[garryheather]

Personally, I'll be sorry to see the decline of availability of G series media - I have never had any problems with Ritek media and still use it to this day. I haven't seen the decline the same few posters keep going on about. Perhaps the UK market is harder to cater for and everyone else has been getting the crap !!

[lenti_75]

CMC the "most" advanced plant.......

that was funny.

[chas0039]

Clearly the business model definition for "most advanced" does not put much weight on burn quality. Too bad Ridisc does not pay attention to forums or they would know what a joke CMC is. Maybe the EU market has differing opinions.

[saxomatic]

welll that just prove me why im starting to have bad results with ritek disk since end of 2004 ... i think problems are reliated also with Late G04 ...

I approved your point .... a Ridisc with CMC dye .... isnt a better match

i would have look for a fuji dye or even a TY

[Zisguy1]

What's the difference between RiDisc and RiData... anyone know? The latter is the brand I got most recently, and it's made by Ritek.

Edit -- after checking both websites, www.ridata.com is for sure associated with Ritek directly. Dunno about RiDisc, but they seem to be avoiding much mention of Ritek on their site.

[chas0039]

It looks as though Ridisc is in Europe and farther East. Their site is hard to get information from, but they do not appear to be in the US. The article is interesting to EU buyers because of their access to Ridisc and to US buyers because of the comments on Ritek problems.

[MJPollard]

Don't know about anyone else, but this just convinced me to ring up Rima.com on the ol' browser and order a 100-pack of Taio Yuden DVD-R printables. Well, that and the skipping-past-the-4GB-mark burns I've just started getting with a fresh pack of Ritek printables I'd ordered too long ago to even remember if I'd kept the receipt.

It's a shame, because until now, I'd sworn by Ritek. Guess now, I'll be swearing at Ritek instead.

[cyflyer]

Very very interesting admissions in that interveiw. It should go up as a 'sticky' or something permanent for all to see. Confirms that Ritek are synonumous with shit, and loads of us wasted precious time and money.

TDK manufactured Ridiscs ? Nah, don't believe it. Something ain't right here. Would they stick a Rolls Royce engine in a Skoda ???

[Gen-An]

If Ridisc is using CMC for it's production, it's quite possible to see TDK and MCC media codes as Ridisc since CMC does manufacturing for both TDK and MCC, and I suppose *something* must be done with the discs that don't pass those Japanese companies' standards...

[lordsmurf]

If Ridisc is using CMC for it's production, it's quite possible to see TDK and MCC media codes as Ridisc since CMC does manufacturing for both TDK and MCC, and I suppose *something* must be done with the discs that don't pass those Japanese companies' standards...

That's a good point. I've heard of nothing but complaints from people I know in EU, especially UK, when it comes to RiDisc and the various codes in the media.

[Gen-An]

Considering the results I've gotten with TDK by CMC and MCC by CMC, the ones that apparantly passed inspection, I'd hate to see the ones that DIDN'T

[garryheather]

That's a good point. I've heard of nothing but complaints from people I know in EU, especially UK, when it comes to RiDisc and the various codes in the media.

Actually, I put some of the blame for that on the dealers. I am surprised how many retailers - especially the online ones who quite frankly have no excuse unlike the highstreet stores - STILL don't give media codes. I don't buy if they can't tell me what the code is. For a lot of users who still think a brand manufacture their own discs and do not appreciate the issues of OEM and rebranding, a disc they used before with good results suddenly is a waste of money when they buy their next pack.

With so many brands using whatever comes their way at any given time, it does rather water down the perceived quality of any given media.

I would just like to sing the praises of SVP here in the UK for this - they've always told you the media code of what you're buying, but check this out for honesty...

http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/latestnews.htm

At least you always know what you're buying - and on the rare occasions where the codes may change between batches, SVP tell you what the codes may be. Sadly very few people make their own media these days and you can't assure other people's quality control as well as your own.

I appreciate that the high street retailers probably can't check every supplier for media ID's, and they probably don't want to either, but for some of the bulk resellers to hide behind this "any old sh1t" approach is bad form. What's wrong in telling the customer what they're REALLY buying ?

[djblade]

lordsmurf, from the dvd-r disc's available at blankdiscshop (possibly the best U.K. Supplier), which do you see as a good quality disc, aside from the TY's and mcc 03's, assuming you rate the mcc 03's... ??

Also group, blankdiscshop state that datasafe/datawrite have discontinued the legendary fuji grey top, why would someone stop doing such a succesful disc ? it's confused me, as i've just moved to these from all forms of g04/05 disc's

[joeg04]

I found this "RiDisc Xtreme"-RITEKG05 review:
http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Reviews+index-req-showcontent-id-142.phtml
This media seems to be good if used in a Pioneer burner.

[-jsl-]

What's the difference between RiDisc and RiData... anyone know? The latter is the brand I got most recently, and it's made by Ritek.

Edit -- after checking both websites, www.ridata.com is for sure associated with Ritek directly. Dunno about RiDisc, but they seem to be avoiding much mention of Ritek on their site.

Ridisc is not one of Ritek's brands, it's one of E-net Distribution's brands. See here for more info.

I found this "RiDisc Xtreme"-RITEKG05 review:
http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Reviews+index-req-showcontent-id-142.phtml
This media seems to be good if used in a Pioneer burner.

That website is not exacly the most objective source, see here.