Memorex DVD-R... Any Good?

[ixll]

I work at CompUSA and we just got in 50pk spindles of Memorex DVD-R media. Now, my employee price puts these guys at $1.09/each so it's a great deal. Only problem is this. I have a problem buying Memorex Media. I guess it stems from the early days of CD-R when my 1X speed burner took almost 1.5 hours to burn a disk and if it went bad it cost me about 2-3$ per disk to replace it. Wait a minute! That sounds like now whith burning DVD disks!!!!!

Anyway, I started with Memorex CD-R disks back in the day and had problems getting just about anything that wasn't a CD-R drive to read the disks. Not to mention the amount of coasters I made because the burn failed. I haven't bought Memorex media in about 7 years because of this.

So what I want to know is this. Am I safe buying a 50pk of Memorex DVD-R disks to use on a Sony DRU500AX? All I have used so far for media is TDK because they were the cheapest and I was comfortable with the brand.

What kind of Rep does memorex have in the DVD-R world?

[hiphats2003]

I myself have no problem with Memorex...there are better brands, but Memorex is a good brand. I recorded something recently with it, and it has no problem.

[peeps]

im in the same situtaiton. my sister works at best buy and can get me that same discount on the 50 pack ,but people tell me they are absolutely horrible...don't really know caue i haven't tried it.

[ixll]

Well, I would have to have a 45% fail rate or above to make the disks cost more than the TDK's that I am buying now. I highly doubt I would have even close to that level of failure on a 50 disk spindle.

It's a safe bet that even if I have some failures I will be saving myself money over the cost of the TDK's. They would have to be pretty damn horrible to make it not worth the purchase.

[JamesB69]

i have bought two 3-packs. one pack wouldnt play in anything but the drive that burned it. the other played in everything (including PS2). I burned the same 3 movies on both packs of discs. They were both bought at same place at the same time.

[starwarrior29]

I bought a 50 pack of memorex at bestbuy and so far after using 40 of them only 2 ended up bad. After reading this thread https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147383 about the discs splitting in half I took a pair of scissors to cut the bad discs and sure enough the two layers split in half very easily. Needless to say I won't be buying any more memorex branded dvdrs.

[SLICK RICK]

I bought two 50 packs yesterday and burned about 3 disk no problems with playback on either one of my dvd players or PS2 but then I read the comments about them and decided to bring both back and purchased my usual "never had any problems with" VERBATIM DATA LIFE PLUS alot more expensive but well worth it.

MEMOREX=$89.99 FOR 50
VERBATIM=$39.99 FOR 15

[ixll]

Well thanks for the help. I think I am going to just let them sit and some poor sucker can come pay the $99.99 retail price for them.

[mcubed91]

I have an AX, I went out and bought different media brands to try out. I bought dvd+r memorex, AX did not like it.
On the sony web site, memorex was not on the list of recommended brands.
I use Verbatims, no coasters yet.

[sumibas]

i bought both +R and -R memorex mu success rate is 50%. I have Sony DRU500AX 1.0f Frimware. And it only burns at 1X.