Customer Reviews

TDK DVD-RW 4x 4.7GB (25-Pack Spindle )

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

While I'm sure this is a great DVD+RW product (my computers works great with it), it is NOT a DVD-RW. The "-" and "+" specify the format and often determine how it can be used.

I bought these specifically to be used with my DVD-RW video recorder, which incidentally can't use DVD+RW, so this was a waste of money for me. The product even has "DVD-RW" printed right on each DVD, even though it's a "DVD+RW" product.

I'm very unhappy about having spent money on the wrong product because these guys can't label their product correctly.

According to the labelling on these DVDs, they are -RW (not +RW) media. But my Sharp DV-SR3U rejects them with the message: "This is a non-standard disc. Remove it."

Back to Memorex media for me.

Having used TDK (non DVD disks) for many years, based on this past experience, I purchased 2, YES TWO, spindles, 50 DISKS. A disasterous decision. If any would be purchase of these disks would like to experience, computer crash, DVD drive lock-up, multiple and incorrect information about individual disks (disk empty, disk full, cannot read disk, unkown format, windows incompatible disk) then purchase these. After wasting time on 10 of the disks, I eventually salvaged 2. The remaining 48, into the garbage. The rating for these TDK disks should be -5, that's minus 5!!!!

I introduced the first disc of the 25 units spindle in my SONY VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER/DVD RECORDER and I received the message:"The disc cannot be recorded nor played".It was rejected by the machine which was bought for.
It has a good price but unusable.

These disks work great in my PowerBook and in my Philips DVD Recorder. My older DVD Recorder doesn't recognize them as recordable or playable though. Equipment manufacturers have apparently not agreed to any standards.

Works flawlessly with ES10 DVD Recorder, same design (grey color) as jewel cased 5-pk TDK 4X also bought from Amazon.com. Unfortunately, neither is made in Japan, but OEMed in Taiwan.

Amazon is so convenient and easy and almost always has the item I need..These RW DVDs are hard to come by here at home so I am thrilled with my purchase through Amazon

I've always had good luck with TDK audio discs on various computer drives and these video discs seem just as good. This time I got them to use in a DVD recorder. I've gone through more than half of the supply now and they simply WORK!

I have both a Toshiba & a Panasonic DVD Recorders & I've found that the vast majority of the TDK discs work fine with one, the other or both....If there might initially be a problem, i almost always find that if i wait a bit & resubmit, everything works out fine.

Not much to say I think. I've been using TDK DVD-RW 4x 4.7 GB disks for a couple years now. My inexpensive LG DVD burner in my PC and my somewhat more expensive (but more picky) Plextor burner both burn movies and other files to these disks just fine, they play back in all our "standard" DVD players around the house just fine, and they erase completely in under 2 minutes (estimate).

That said, I can also mention that I've tried RW disks from a couple other common brands (Memorex, Maxell, and another I forget now...) and they had issues or didn't work at all.