At 10:27 PM 10/29/2005, Greg Sevart typed:
I'm just extremely picky on media. I want the best, and I'm willing
to pay for it (within reason). When 4x -R media was first coming
out, I bought a lot of the Ritek G04 and had good luck...but
eventually there were so many complaints about consistency that I
switched to MCC. At that point the price difference was small enough
that I was willing to pay.
So it sounds like you didn't have any complaints but had heard the
complaints of others. I too have had great success with Ritek G04 but
have also had great success with the G05 disks as well & I've
literally burned hundreds if not a thousand of them all on Pioneer
drives. I've had Princo's that were readable once they were burned
but no longer played in the same stand alone players a few months
later but that has never happened with a Ritek disk of any kind ever
since I've been burning DVDs.
The last time I listen to the complaints of others I dropped Abit &
went with Asus. I wish I never had as the Asus A7V333 mobo that I got
was a POS & while Asus was supposedly repairing the board the bios
miraculously increased 10 revisions in the time it took to get the
mombo back to me & fortunately the mombo had the latest bios
installed. The raid array & the firewire have yet to work properly &
the promise of 333 mhz memory bus was never implemented until rev 1
of the mombo even tho Asus promised that it would be available a bios
upgrade that has yet to be released. </rant>
I've have since switched to Gigabyte mombos & have had a problem with
only 1 board that was quickly replaced by the vendor. All the
Gigabyte boards that I've used come with a full 3yr warranty & have
worked as advertised. I'm running one of their early 939 mombos now &
it has been stellar in it's performance with a AMD 64 3800+ & 2g & 2
- 74g Raptors in a Raid 0 for over a year now. While I take the word
of lists such as this one & newsgroups very seriously I doubt I'll
let it sway me from what experience has taught me again so to each their own.
I've only had a DVP 642 player for a short while but was thinking of
burning some Ritek DL disks to try in it & I have no qualms
whatsoever with my choice of brand name blank disks.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
