DL (dual layer) cheap anywhere?

[Toaster]

My local fry's has the best price I've personally seen so far at 3pk/$19.99 ... Surely the price has come down from that by now?

Who has the best deal on DL's?

[Skith]

About two weeks ago, I was in Detroit (Madison Heights), I stopped at a "Micro Center" store, they had 3-packs of Verbatim DL media for 12.99 each (sale), and they had a whole wall + half an isle of them.

[sumibas]

compusa have a 25 pack memorek for 79$ with a DVD shredder free when you by the DL memorex media

[lordsmurf]

10-pack MKM DVD+R DL for $53:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0191661

Supposedly SAM's has a good deal, same 10-packs, but in the $45 range.

Meritline was carrying some, as was newegg, same $50-60 range, same 10-packs.

My threshhold is $4 each after tax/shipping. Still waiting patiently.

[hhhhbk]

is there any reason that people are prepared to pay $4+ for one dual layer disk when 2 single layer disks come in at $1

~4 times the price for same amount of space
doesnt make sense to me

[lordsmurf]

Absolutely. In 2001, SL discs were $6-9 each, and in 2002, discs were $3-6 each. That price was acceptable.

Maybe not to all the pirates out there, it's not ("backup" Netflix), but to those with legitimate needs (making their own content), it surely is. Maybe not even to the casual person backing up their computer or home DVD collection, but if you want that service, you'll end up doing it anyway.

Plus consider alternatives. S-VHS tapes have long been $10-20 each. DV tapes are $5-10 each. VHS tapes are $2-3 each, for the good ones, used to be several dollars more. Why should this be any different? Good storage media costs a couple bucks each, always has. I'm more shocked that SL DVD-R and DVD+R are under $1 each.

[Gen-An]

Because you can back up a full dual layer DVD-ROM on one DL disc without compression or splitting up the movie into two discs...?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

the reason is this: compression = shit.
splitting over 2 discs? also = shit.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

...
I'm more shocked that SL DVD-R and DVD+R are under $1 each.

I absolutely will not pay more than $0.40 per disc for blank DVD's now.

[lordsmurf]

Because you can back up a full dual layer DVD-ROM on one DL disc without compression or splitting up the movie into two discs...?

For a moment, let's everybody forget about "backing up" a movie.

Those "backup" people are going to bitch about prices no matter what they are. There are people that whine like little babies that a good disc costs 40 cents on sale at Best Buy. I've even seen these same people (at least the pirates in the group) whine that Netflix cannot get them 100 DVDs a month and that it costs too much ($20). They probably would not be happy if studios gave them discs for free. They make a sport out of complaining, spoiled brats.

For those that make content, they want good discs with good content size, that's the customer for these things. An MKM DL disc for just under $5 is great (although there are many that are happy with $10 discs, because Betacam and DV and S-VHS hovers at that price too).

[lordsmurf]

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I'm more shocked that SL DVD-R and DVD+R are under $1 each.

I absolutely will not pay more than $0.40 per disc for blank DVD's now.

I would have to say that you've been spoiled and/or are super new to video. That is not how it was in the past, and I often wonder if that trend will continue in the future. Because so many people have operated at a loss duing the DVD days, I really doubt it will. If things hover $1 and above in the future, for future video mediums, do not be shocked. That's all I can say.

[QuaiBoy]

There is absolutely no reason to pay more than $30-40/100pk for DVD-R blanks. Perhaps we're being spoiled, but people who are paying more are getting ripped off.

-Evan-

[Bodyslide]

I will buy these all day long. Price is not an issue. Quality Is.

http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=R&Category_Code=DMRTY

[QuaiBoy]

I will buy these all day long. Price is not an issue. Quality Is.

http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=R&Category_Code=DMRTY

I have bought many hundreds of blanks from Rima, great place to shop. A bit high on the TY prices though.

-Evan-

[Bodyslide]

That was just the first link I had bookmarked.

[FulciLives]

When I first got a DVD burner a 10-pack of Maxell DVD-R discs (MADE IN JAPAN) was $35.00 and a 10-pack of Fuji DVD-R discs (Taiyo Yuden) was $35.00 and these were 2x DVD-R discs.

I saw the price very slowly come down to the point where I was amazed that Taiyo Yuden DVD-R discs (from RIMA.COM) finally hit $1.00 and then ... gasp! ... below.

So now I am spoiled myself but I remember the "old" days so $4.00 for a DVD-R DL is not so bad I suppose but as for myself I will probably not buy any until the price hits at least $3.00 or under. I am sure it will happen and probably sooner than latter.

I also recall the "old" days when a quality VHS tape was $5.99 to $6.99 each and when a blank S-VHS was $11.99 each.

These days though I will mostly be recording stuff from TV so since most TV shows are 2 hours or less I really do not know how much of a need I will have for dual layer media but I do welcome it because I am sure there will be instances where I will want to use it. If nothing else it will, for TV show back-up, reduce the number of discs (and clutter) in half or so.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Xylob the Destroyer]

..I would have to say that you've been spoiled and/or are super new to video...

a little of both actually...
I have been lucky enough to find good quality +R media at low prices locally (I hate waiting for shipping!!) and I've only had my burner for just over a year.

I hope to be an early adopter of Blu-Ray, but shudder to think of what the early prices for media will be...
I know, Blu-Ray burners are already available, but I'm talking about the realm of reason here. I'm not gonna drop $1000.00 for a burner of any type -- I waited to get a DVD burner until average local prices on media were $2 per disc and the good burners were under $200

Bodyslide, the prices in your link are perfectly acceptable for HQ media.
but as I said, I'm an instant gratification kinda guy. I just don't like waiting for shipping (or paying for it)

and to Fulci, there's more to this media than "hours". A lot of folks actually use DVD for data as well as video (me included).
being able to back up almost twice as much data in the same amount of physical space is very appealling to me.

[Toaster]

I was an early adopter of DVDR, I paid $400 for my first Pioneer A03 (which I still have, but have long since retired). And media was well over $5.00/disc, probably closer to $7-$8/disc. At those prices (honestly) "backing up" was not a option for me...Heck I could usually BUY the movie for just a few bucks more and have no compression issues, no box or label worries.... etc. I was guilty of backing up a few games ($50.00/ea avg retail) but thats another thread.

I agree that most people (myself included) are spoiled to cheap prices of media- I remember reading way back then about the annoucement of 8x and 16x recorders that had not trickled down into the consumer realm yet, but we all knew they would sooner or later. And high speed burning of 4.5gb is about 7 minutes or so would be a reality, and also that the physical manufacturing process of creating a DVDR is the same as CDR, so we all knew prices would eventually go <$1.00 a disc, and eventually quality would be similar across the board (though that has yet to happen).

As for price and being spoiled, I still have the box my A03 came in with a $399.99 price tag on it, and I recently bought a 16x BTC for my home theater pc for $29.99 and a 25pk of Sony 8x +R media for $4.75.................WOW!

[compuser]

10-pack MKM DVD+R DL for $53:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0191661

Supposedly SAM's has a good deal, same 10-packs, but in the $45 range.

Meritline was carrying some, as was newegg, same $50-60 range, same 10-packs.

My threshhold is $4 each after tax/shipping. Still waiting patiently.

http://search.samsclub.com/eclub/search.go?BV_SessionID=_SC_1788581763.1122580940_CS_&...h&logged_in=No
~47 for a 9pk...

[compuser]

And media was well over $5.00/disc, probably closer to $7-$8/disc...

I got my first blank DVD-R media for $10/disk...(of course I had to wait like 2 or 3 years to actually use it...it is a long story)....

Just pulled it out of my archives.... Apperently it is a Ritek -- RITEKG01 (of course it has a generic label on it)

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I waited until DVD+R's were $2.00 to buy a burner.
I'm currently waiting for DVD+R DL to be $2.00 a piece before I upgrade to a DL burner, but I suppose that logically, I should only wait until the DL are $4.00.
However, the real issue is availability -- DL media is just plain hard to find around here.

[compuser]

However, the real issue is availability -- DL media is just plain hard to find around here.

Have you checked for online stores that would deliver to your location?

[DereX888]

DL Verbatims, unbranded, (probably fakes - but with real Verbatim's MID, so I dont know for sure), on a spindle, 50pcs, $100 CAD. Thats some $75 USD, or less, taxfree if paid by cash
And it was in the end of May, perhaps early June, so I'd say price ought to be lower by now.
Only 1 disc out of the entire spindle was bad, and I've burnt about 3/4 of them so far (I have not much use for DL media at work).

Check your local chinatown

[thevoelk]

They might not have been fake. We've gotten some of the generic looking, unbranded DL's directly from Verbatim before.

Also, wouldn't the manufacturing costs of DL be almost counter-productive for the purpose of counterfeiting discs? Not trying to argue, I remeber reading there was something about a 50% failure rate in manufacturing them. It was a while ago, so I'm sure it's improved. But if it improved that much, we'd probably see some discs from not so decent manufacturers now, and the price probably would have dropped. Like LS and Edmund Blackedder have said, it's pretty much a market for people creating their own content right now.

[futurist]

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[Toaster]

10-pack MKM DVD+R DL for $53:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0191661

Supposedly SAM's has a good deal, same 10-packs, but in the $45 range.

Meritline was carrying some, as was newegg, same $50-60 range, same 10-packs.

My threshhold is $4 each after tax/shipping. Still waiting patiently.

http://search.samsclub.com/eclub/search.go?BV_SessionID=_SC_1788581763.1122580940_CS_&...h&logged_in=No
~47 for a 9pk...

I've never seen these IN a sams club before, so assuming they are available from the web site only, depending on shipping charges, they'll be more expensive than $19.99/3pk found locally in a B&M.

[dmagic1]

Actually I was in Walmart the other day and they had Verbatim 3 pack DL for 12.99 also.

[FulciLives]

Actually I was in Walmart the other day and they had Verbatim 3 pack DL for 12.99 also.

Well that is actually worth buying now ... at least to "test" since I've yet to burn a DL disc but do they have the -R kind? I have no interest in +R DL discs.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[lordsmurf]

Walmart here is DL +R 3-pack for $19.99 still.
Used to be $29.99

[dmagic1]

They were DL +R.