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ValueDisc BD-R 25GB 50pk White Inkjet Printable 1
Burning a ValueDisc Blu-Ray Disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Burning a ValueDisc Blu-Ray Disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the 50-disc spindle Blu-Ray Recordable discs from ValueDisc and burning it in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive. These are White Inkjet Printable discs, so they have a printable surface: The data side from these discs are dark grey colored: Here is a quick comparison of the disc compared with the previously-reviewed SmartBuy BD-R discs: As you can see, there is a significant difference in the data surface. The media code of these discs…

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New CD-R DA + BD-RE + BD-RE DL
New CD-R and BD-RE Reviews and Unboxing Coming Soon!

New CD-R and BD-RE Reviews and Unboxing Coming Soon!

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Hi everyone, The past few days, I brought the following products: I purchased the new PlexDisc CD-R Digital Audio discs that they mention are the best to store music. I’ll be reviewing it against the regular PlexDisc CD-R to see if they are really different, or are just the same but with the CD-R DA flag in them. Also, I’ll try them on my CD players to see if they do the initial seek faster. The other products I got…

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SmartBuy BD-R 25GB 6x 1
SmartBuy BD-R 25GB Logo Top 50 Pack Review

SmartBuy BD-R 25GB Logo Top 50 Pack Review

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the SmartBuy BD-R 25GB 50Pk Logo Top. These discs should be able to be burned at up to 6x. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek. These discs have a blue Logo Top: On the data side, they have a gold color: A few years ago, I recall that some gold-colored discs became corrupted due to corrosion. Since these discs are gold-colored too, I’ll be checking them after a while to make sure its…

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LG WH14NS40 Laser Calibration 3
Calibrating the LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive

Calibrating the LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive

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Hi everyone, I’m now at my 3rd LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive. The first one had its Blu-Ray laser die and the second one began having issues reading Blu-Ray discs. The 3rd one reads them faster. But what if I could have fixed the 2nd drive? That’s what we will be looking here. This drive is not one of my favorite writers. It is not a good writer. Most of the discs I burn with it ends up having the so…

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Philips BD-R DL 50GB burned at 6x on Pioneer BDR-2212

Philips BD-R DL 50GB burned at 6x on Pioneer BDR-2212

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Hi everyone, In my last post of the Philips BD-R DL 50GB discs, I shared the quality scan of the discs burned at 8x on the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive. Here, I’m sharing the quality scans of these discs burned on the same drive at 6x. Overall, it is a good burn. As we saw in the previous post, it seems the drive manages to burn the second layer better. The LG drive, however, seems to have some spikes at the…

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HP BD-R DL 10pk 1
The HP BD-R DL 50GB Blu-Ray Discs

The HP BD-R DL 50GB Blu-Ray Discs

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Hi everyone, Early this week, I ordered more Double Layer Blu-Ray discs. Unfortunately, the Philips 10pk BD-R DLs that were at $9 each were out of stock, so I had 2 options, both listed at $11 dollars: I decided to go with the HP ones since I’ve already tested the Philips BD-R DL 10pk printable discs, and maybe the Logo surface ones were the same CMC Magnetics discs. With the HP ones, I have the opportunity to review these and…

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Philips BD-R DL 10pk

Philips BD-R DL 10pk

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the Philips BD-R DL White Inkjet Printable Blu-Ray Recordable media: These discs were at a surprising price of just $9 dollars on Amazon, so I picked up 5 spindles of these. These discs holds up to 50GB and are rated to be burnt at up to 6x. Let’s take a look at the disc surface and label sides: The discs have the Philips brand at the center of the disc. Also, we…

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Pioneer BDR-2212 Teardown 2
Pioneer BDR-2212 Teardown

Pioneer BDR-2212 Teardown

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing a teardown of the Pioneer BDR-2212 Blu-Ray recorder. Like most PC Disc drives, a teardown is usually a very simple process. First, let’s take a look at the drive itself: Before attempting to open it, we must open the disc tray, so we’ll be able to remove the front faceplate: We will now flip the drive and remove each screw: And viola! We now have opened the drive: Its internals are very similar…

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Pioneer BDR-2212 Unboxing 9
Unboxing the Pioneer BDR-2212 Blu-Ray Burner

Unboxing the Pioneer BDR-2212 Blu-Ray Burner

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Hi everyone, This last week, I ordered the Pioneer BDR-2212. It is a Blu-Ray burner capable of burning up to 16x on BD-R, 14x on BD-R DL, 8x on BD-R TL (BDXL TL) and 6x on BD-R QL (BDXL QL). My reasons to get this drive are the following: The Pioneer will be my main burner (assuming it can burn the discs fine) and reader from now on, and I’ll use the LG exclusively for 4K discs, since the BDR-2212…

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"Verbatim" BDXL Used Discs 3
My 2nd Batch of Used BDXL discs

My 2nd Batch of Used BDXL discs

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On the past days, I wrote about having purchased an used spindle of 10 Verbatim BDXL discs. I mentioned that I had also ordered the same item again, but the used condition mentioned was “Like New”. Today, we’ll see my experience this time, which may or may not surprise you. The first thing is I received this item on an “Amazon Renewed” bag. The sticker is different from the “Amazon Inspected” one from my previous order: Visually looking, we can…

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