TDK 4.7GB 16x DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle)

by TDK

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5.6 x 6.6 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009RKL5S
• Item model number: DVD-R47FCC100*M
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (207 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #23 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Blank Media > DVD-R Discs
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

From preserving family memories to protecting important data, TDK 4.7GB DVD-R media offers the widest compatibility with computer drives and home DVD players. Ideal for general purpose recording, a single TDK DVD-R has ample capacity for thousands of digital photos, up to six hours of video and behemoth mission-critical data files. Each DVD-R disc can be fully recorded once. As DVD recording speeds have increased, the importance of using name brand, quality media has become paramount. When a DVD-R is recorded at high speeds, the fast RPM's of the recording process require an advanced, ultra-sensitive recording material capable of compensating for the abbreviated exposure to the drive laser. Specially formulated with a rapid phase-change recording layer, TDK DEV-R media products maximize the data transfer rate while minimizing the potential for errors. The discs have been thoroughly tested and verified to outperform other media brands, which may rely on slow-reacting, error-prone phase-change materials. TDK AVIST metallic alloys change between crystalline and amorphous states in response to the heat generated by a laster for phase-change recording. The differences in relectivity exhibited by the alloy in its cystalline and amorphous states are read as data. TDK AVIST alloys are designed for the most precise laser response, resulting in perfect data marks and superior recording and playback performance.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good disks but make sure your burner supports them, December 13, 2006

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Burner Man "Burner Man" (Chicago USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TDK 4.7GB 16x DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle) (Accessory)

In case you are wondering why some people have no problems and others can't use them, in most cases its how burner supports them. Note that the TDK gray -R disks are CMC MAG AM3 media

Bought 100 pack and a new Samsung sh-s182/Sony DRU-830A 18x burner. disks were unburnable at any speed other than 4x and the burner could not read my burns using Fuji Disks. Exchanged the burner for a Liteon SHM-165P6S and it burns the TDKs at 16x with only 1 coaster out of 60 burns (and I was encoding a video and d/l at same time). Looked at the firmware of both drives and found that they support certain media and not others.

NEC, Sony, Samsung DO NOT like TDK disks, Lite-On loves them. Lite-On firmware supports them the other's firmware doesn't list them.

Likewise there are disks that the Samsung/Sony burn fine but the Lite-On chocks on. And it depends on which model of the drives, some Lite-On do not like them and some Sony's do.

While there are some off brand disks that are poor, TDK is not among them. However, which burner and model of burner you have makes a big difference. Before buying disks do two things:
1 - check which disks your burner's firmware supports
2 - check how those disks have performed with your burner: club.cdfreaks.com and www.hardware.info both have extensive results posted by users on media and burners.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusable!, June 18, 2007

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Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK 4.7GB 16x DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle) (Accessory)

I had used TDK DVD-R blanks many times before so I ordered this without hesitation. To my complete shock, these DVD-R discs, made by Ritek of Taiwan for TDK, were completely unusable in various DVD burners: Matsushita, NEC, Toshiba, Sony, etc. I tried over a dozen blanks in these burners, using different DVD burning programs on different computers (and a set-top burner), and not a single disc was usable.

Avoid this TDK 100-pack like a plague.

I bought a 60-pack Playo DVD-R spindle at Staples and every one of the 10 or so discs I've burned had absolutely no problems.

39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best DVDs I have ever used, December 8, 2005

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Jesus M. Guerra Cuellar "V Generacion" (Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK 4.7GB 16x DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle) (Accessory)

I have used several brands of blank media and have tried to avoid this TDKs becuse of a bad review posted a long time ago. Recently, and because I had no choice, I had to order some of these and found them to be the very best I have used. I burned several at 16x using a NEC ND-3540A just to see if they could stand that speed and all of them turned out very well. I am burning them at 12x now but that just to be safe.
Before trying these I had been using Verbatim but these are way better.
Oh, and the price is just the icing on the cake.