Verbatim from Fry's

[swkenney]

Below is the info from DVDinfo.

It shows my Verbatim DVD from Fry's to be made by CMC. I thought that was a third level manufacturer.
I thought Verbatim was first level and just about the best. Now I cannot trust this brand.
Is Taiyo-Yuden the only name I can trust?


Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID CMC MAG. AM3
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name KICK_ASS
Application id
Implementation id DVD Shrink
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 10/25/2010 1:18:05
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 0D
2x Write Strategy field 1 14 98 88 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 07
4x Speed OPC power 17
4x Write Strategy field 1 0A 0E 09 04
4x Write Strategy field 2 95 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 17
4x Write Strategy field 4 15 B8 99 85
4x Write Strategy field 5 B8 9A 32 03 20 32
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22E10Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 F8 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 84 0D 12 .....@....R.....
00000010 98 99 90 00 03 43 4D 43 20 4D 41 00 04 47 2E 20 .....CMC MA..G.
00000020 41 4D 33 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 02 00 06 09 0D 14 AM3.............

[jagabo]

Verbatim from Fry's is their low budget "Life" series, not Datalife of Datalife Plus.
http://www.frys.com/product/6208150

[jman98]

We've had a lot of discussion for months now on the Verbatim Life series. Guess you missed it. Verbatim has bowed to the pressure of the US marketplace and now uses low quality manufacturers for their cheap Life series of discs. However, the DataLifePlus has not changed. I've been told that the DataLife hasn't changed either, just as jagabo pointed out, but I don't use those discs. I can confirm via a recent order that DataLifePlus is the same as it ever was.

[Moontrash]

seems the majority of consumers who burn discs dont pay attention to quality so they just grab whatever. If u want the Datalifeplus series...got to supermediastore, they have all of what you want. Burns and quality are as good as they've always been.