Customer Reviews

Ridata DVD+R 8x 25-pack Spindle

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I have now successfully burned over 10 DVDs on these discs, and all have played perfectly in both my Samsung stand-alone DVD player and the DVD Burner on my computer. The burner I use is a Sony DRU540a. I have used Disc Identifier on these discs and in case you people want to know, it is manufactured by Ritek and the media code is RitekR03. You can look that up on digitalfaq.com, then click on a link that says www.nomorecoasters.com (that is not the actual url, so you have to go to digitalfaq.com first) and it will show you where that media ranks according to some "expert". To him, it is 2nd class media with an 80 to 95% success rate, but to me and it sounds like the other people here, it is first class media with 100% success rate at an exceptional value. I have burned ZERO coasters and I don't foresee myself burning any soon. There is one problem, however. Like I said, I am using a Sony DRU540a for my burning and these discs will only burn at 4x with this burner. Disc identifier says they are compatabile up to 8x, so I think this is just a problem with the firmware with my burner. Once a firmware update is released I am sure they will all burn at 8x. (I know my burner works at 8x because the first blank DVD+R's I bought were Verbatim and they worked at 8x). That being said, it's not that big of a deal. 4x takes about 14 minutes, 8x takes about 7 minutes. Overall, the quality and value is excellent and I would recommend these discs to anyone and everyone. Tip...since the 50 pack doesn't ship for a couple weeks, but 2 25 packs and get free shipping. That is what I did, I selected the free shipping, and I got both packs in one shipment 4 business days later. You should be happy with these discs.

I am on my second pack of these discs and highly recommend them. I have been using Nero Recode or CloneDVD to back-up my children's dvd movies; and I have not burned one "coaster" thru my first 25-pack of these dvd+r's. They play flawlessly on all three of our household dvd players as well as our 2 computers. For the price they are a great value.

A few reviews of other blank DVDs on Amazon have touched on a troubling issue: scratched discs. Some people claim to be getting scratched discs from Amazon. Well, I received these discs by themselves, in a too-large box which they were rattling around in. I was ready to have to return them, but the discs themselves are absolutely flawless. No imperfections of any kind on the bottom, and I analyzed each of them carefully.
I've also burned four of these discs at 8x with no problems whatsoever. I'm very pleased with them, and at this price they're a steal.

Bought a 25-DVD spindle of Ritek Ridata 8X +R DVDs [these have the words "Ridata" and "8X" on the top side of the DVD]. However, these only burn at 4X on both of my burners. Prodisc and Supermedia 8X DVDs and Ritek 8X -R all burn at 8X. Even Memorex 4X burns at 6X on my burner. Don't waste your time or money on the Ritek Ridata 8X +R DVDs if you want DVDs to burn at 8X.

I got them to back up a bunch of data on my HD. so far no problems. I did find some others cheaper than these or more quantity, so don't think it was the best of deals. Not complaining though.

Haven't used them so much yet, let's see how long they last.

they didn't burn any faster and 3 had flaws (clear spot that I assume ddin't allow it to record). Even with flaw-best bang for the buck. The 22 that recorded-LOOK GREAT.

I work in the tv industry and do A LOT of dvd burning. I have to say that these DVD's work wonderfully. I have a NU 8x Burner in my machine and I have yet to have a single one of these DVD's be used as a coaster. Absolutely wonderful product. I will definitely be using these again in the future! Strongly recommended!
A brand to stay as far away from as possible are the Velocity DVD's. I bought a 100 pack and half of them went straight in the trash. Fortunately Amazon gave me a full refund when I complained, and paid for the shipping and handling to have the remaining DVD's sent back to them. The Velocity discs may be a steal financially, but in the long run you're wasting your time and money and getting nothing back. Terrible product - don't buy!

On my first attempt to use these discs with my NEC3500A drive and with the Nero software burn speed set for maximum, it started to write at 4X, then flashed an error message. Tried another disc, same thing, another coaster. I updated the firmware for the burner and was able to successfully complete a burn, but only at 4X! I've had good luck with Ridata in the past, and these were the first coasters Iv'e made with this NEC drive after more than 70 burns. Ironically, I bought a 100 spindle of Ridata DVD+R 4X not too long ago which wrote at 8X on this same drive. Go figure.

They will burns at 4x in NEC ND3500A, ihave installed the last updated of the firmware and stills 4x.

they will only burn at 4x in my burner, but i don't consider that a big deal, works great, no flaws and plays in perfectly in all of my dvd players