Customer Reviews

Radius Technology DVD-R 4.7 GB / 120 Min 4x ( 25 pack Cake box )

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This "Radius" brand is utter junk...I should have listened to others instead of taking a risk. Two discs out of 25 are bad, and now that's a 8% failure rate. Now assuming each disc is stamped independently from each other and I randomly pick a disc from the spindle...each disc should have a 8% chance of being bad. On average each spindle will at least have 0 to 4 discs being bad...your take.

Radius Technology DVDs ID as "OPTODISC" brand media. (That is, OPTODISC makes the discs for Radius). OPTODISC media are generally found to be lousy: poor compatibility with many burners and many "coaster" (unreadable) burns. Amazon has high quality RIDATA blanks for a little more money. I highly recommend you buy them instead. Save yourself a lot of headaches and (if you store anything of importance) heartbreak. There really *IS* a significant difference between very cheap DVD media (like these) and better DVD media (like the Ridata).

I purchased a pack of 50 and a pack of 25. I completely used the 50 pack (ink jet printable) and everyone burned and worked perfectly. I compiled 50 photos and created video in Ulead VideoStudio 8, with effects, transitions, animated titles and sound files. I used MyDVD and made a DVD animated menu and put my new video and three older ones on the same disk along with an advertisement from my business. I cut several disk and they all worked. I cut the rest with my company video advertisement and several short video samples and again, they all worked perfectly, no jerking, no loss and they placed on all three DVD stand alone machines I tried them on. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe some of the others had problems with their computer, drivers or software that created the problems they had. All I know is, mine worked... all of them. The reason I gave it a 4 star instead of 5 is the price. I do believe these are now as well made as Verbatim and if the price is going to be that close, I choose the established name brand over the new, less tested brand.