Memorex 16X DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle)
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Customer Review: Memorex has just changed the product - POOR QUALITY
Summary: 1 Stars
**PLEASE READ** Memorex has changed the product and packaging. I have purchased these for several years and been very happy. At first I thought I ordered these from that online auction site and received fakes. The packaging is so flimsy that it tore open during shipping. It looks completely different than than photo prsented by Amazon (the old packaging). See the photo I just uploaded! The disks feel so thin, they are more like one-time-use disposable DVD's than replayable quality DVDs. These disks are garbage.
Update 7/18/09:
4 of the first 10 disks are not readable by my brand new hp desktop dvd-recorder. It reads, "please insert correct recordable media"...etc., this is a 40% failure rate so far. I'm just throwing them in the trash each time I get that message. What a waste of money - save yours and buy a different brand.
Customer Review: A good deal gone right!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was never a fan of Memorex's, even back in the early eighties when their cassette tapes were dominating the ad slot with its "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" slogan. I bought some Memorex CD-Rs a couple of years ago and it was the worst optical media I have use and wasted my money on to date. I sworn not to ever use the brand again....until now. I recently bought 2x50PK (100) of these 16X DVD-Rs since they were dirt cheap. How can you go wrong for spending merely $20 for it, you just can't! It paid off so far because I haven't encounter one bad burn with these DVDs, not only that; the finalized discs played fine on all of my players. At the moment I'm thinking "Is it Memorex, or is it something else"? They're not only good deals especially for 16X rated, but they're also great discs.
Customer Review: Very Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased 4 spindles hoping for the best but was disappointed right from the start. Due to very lax packing on Amazon's part, one of the spindles was completely broken, bits of it floating in the box. The disks were still on the spindle and, thanks to the little foam circles at the top and the clear plastic disk at the bottom, the disks themselves appeared to be undamaged. I tried to burn 11 disks selected at random from the entire spindle and only 5 wrote. And at least 2 of those had verification errors. I packed them all up, including the remaining disks from the broken pack, and sent them back.
These were about $.09 cheaper per disk than the others I'd been buying from Uline, but when more than half don't write, it's no longer a bargain. I'll stick with my Uline DVDs from now on.
Customer Review: Simply the bomb for backups
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, I have an old Pioneer DVR-105 burner that doesn't even burn DVD+Rs, so you people that have those duel layer burners may want to tune out, but these are what I have been using for years to backup important data. They cost a little more than other DVD-Rs but they are worth it for archiving data. I have about a 150 of these lying around holding important files and I never once in 3+ years have had a problem with aging. Media such as Fuji, Optiplex, or even the Sony brands don't age as well as these do.
I don't normally back-up moves with these since I can get other brands are cheaper, but for backing up games, your My Documents, pictures, and you name it; you cannot find a better brand than this for Pioneer recorders.
Customer Review: So far, pretty lame...
Summary: 1 Stars
I use a fair amount of DVD-R's, for 2 purposes: backing up photos & burning family videos onto DVD's. In the past I've had good luck with HP and Philips discs -- I actually had no coasters, or playback problems with those brands.
But the quality of this stack seems lacking. A LOT of these have scratches underneath, in the outer tracks.
So far...
- The first disc was totally scratched, with what look like white marks, I just threw it away.
- The next one produced a disc that barely works in our DVD player.
- The one after that gave me a coaster.
And, by the way, I only burn at 1X to minimize errors.
So, now I am wondering... should I even bother with the rest of them?