Velocity DVD+R 4.7GB, 8x (100-pack Spindle) Best Value

by Velocity

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0002KQRB4
• Item model number: 14110
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2004

Product Description

Velocity DVD+R is a 8x speed and has a 4.7GB of high capacity multimedia data storage that can quickly record a complete movie on a single disc. Velocity DVD+R provides superb video with rich content and very high multi-channel audio all on a single disc. Important Notice: DVD+R discs are only write compatible with DVD+R/W drives and dual drives. Age and condition of writers or players may affect speed and playback performance. Your drive may set or you may choose to set to lower writing speed for optimum recording result. After recording, DVD+R discs can be read and playback on most DVD-ROM drives and DVD players in use today.

Customer Reviews

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263 of 273 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, January 9, 2005

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Phillip M. Dampier (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Velocity DVD+R 4.7GB, 8x (100-pack Spindle) Best Value (Electronics)

Velocity, like several other OEM brands, exists solely on the label that comes with your discs. Distributors purchase huge quantities of blank media and repackage them for retail sales using generic names like Velocity. Unfortunately, the media contained within the cake box is subject to change as suppliers change, and that is precisely what has happened with this media.

Using tools like DVD Identifier (available free from: http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/), anyone can learn the true origin/type of media used, and early purchasers identified the media they received as branded MCC (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation) which is one of the world's most recognized manufacturers of quality media. Purchasers almost universally gave high ratings for this media.

In the late fall/early winter, the distributor changed their supplier (probably because they managed to cut a better deal), and recent purchasers have received media labeled Optodisc OR8. Optodisc is, frankly, a second tier manufacturer of low cost media. They simply refuse to burn properly in several burners (in particular Plextors, which insist on high quality media to start with), and although they may initially burn properly on burners that are tolerant of a wide range of media (NEC, LiteOn, Opto, etc.), purchasers may discover data integrity problems (unreadable discs, frozen/pixelated video), especially towards the outer edges of the disc (with video, this generally shows up as progressively worsening video towards the end of your recording). Unfortunately, your burned media may become completely unreadable within weeks to months later. That is the risk you take when using lower grade media.

After burning more than 2,000 DVD's since April 2004, I have learned some important lessons:

1) Don't buy cheap quality media and expect it to work well, especially six months after you burn it. Spend a few dollars more to buy media that is compatible with your burner (check your burner manufacturer's web page for recommended media). My Plextor, which is infamously fussy about media quality, has been quite happy with Ritek/Ridata media, also available from Amazon and at a reasonable price.

2) You roll the dice when you purchase media from labels such as "Velocity." If you get MCC media, you win. If you get Opto media, you probably lose. Thankfully, you can return media to Amazon if it doesn't work well for you. I personally wouldn't keep Opto media.

3) You risk the longevity and integrity of your burns if you try to burn at a speed faster than the media was rated at. In fact, I burn everything at conservative speeds (2x or 2.4x for media rated 4x, 4x for media rated at 8x, etc.) Since doing that, I've never had pixelated/frozen video, or disc reading problems.

4) For critical backups, I recommend burning two copies on different types of media (example: burn one copy on Ridata media, the other on MCC). This reduces the chance that your data will be lost if one of your burns turns out to become unreadable in the months/years ahead. Make sure you don't store them together - a calamity that could destroy your first backup (fire, etc.) would have also destroyed your second.

65 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best deal for the price, October 26, 2004

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C. Schellenberg (Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Velocity DVD+R 4.7GB, 8x (100-pack Spindle) Best Value (Electronics)

Nero InfoTool reads them as:

Supported Speeds: 12.0X - 8.0X - 6.0X - 4.0X

Blank Capacity: 4.38 GB

Manufacturer ID: MCC 003

If you research the Manufacturer ID: MCC 003 you'll notice that's the same as in the high quality Verbatim DVD+R's.

I'm using these with my Pioneer DVR-108 16X burner. These discs rated at 8X burn just fine at 12X.

My only gripe with these are their shiny surfaces and this is the reason they get 4 instead of 5 stars. I can already tell they will collect fingerprints fairly easily and don't like having a Sharpie written on them either. The sides of the ink written kind of fade off.

But for $0.30 a disc (not $0.33 like the other reviewer stated) this is a good buy. I would buy them again.

BTW, I've burned about 10 so far and all went flawlessly (no coasters)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for., February 11, 2005

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This review is from: Velocity DVD+R 4.7GB, 8x (100-pack Spindle) Best Value (Electronics)

Media is inconsistent. I have used about 20 Velocity DVDs so far. Some dvd will burn at 4X and some will only burn at 2.4X even tough it is rated at 8X. I must have gotten the bad batch. I purchased two 100 disc spindle, hopefully, the second spindle will be better. I used to use Ridata DVDs, I never had any problem with them (I have used over 300 of them). After these 200 Velocity DVDs, I will try to stick to brand name DVDs from now on.