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.
Yes, that would be a fair statement. I was using G04 media, stocked up once
on a good deal, and by the time I needed to refill--the complaints were
numerous. Damn straight I listen to the general consensus of others. I'm
sure not going to buy a product that so many others are having problems
with.
The "general consensus" is that Ritek G05 and later batch G04 media was of
inconsistent quality.
The "overwhelming consensus" is that Ritek RW and Ritek DL media are
sub-par. This opinion is actually one I can corroborate with personal
experience, at least with regard to the RW side. Ultimately, I refer to my
previous message: it speaks volumes that the Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL disc can
reach 8x burn speed with incredible scan results, whereas the Ritek 2.4x
DVD+R DL looks terrible even at 2.4x--and won't go higher with any degree of
reliability or consistency.
Greg
