Browsed by
Category: Optical Media

ValueDisc BD-R 25GB Pioneer BDR-2212 2
Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 2

Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 2

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive can burn a ValueDisc 25GB BD-R disc at a speed of 6x. This time, I used ImgBurn to initiate the burn: The disc was burned and verified successfully: Here is how the surface looks when burned at 6x in this drive: The surface looks very smooth. Overall, this drive seems to burn Blu-Ray discs with really smooth-looking surface. Quality Scan The disc scanned better than the…

Read More Read More

ValueDisc BD-R 25GB Pioneer BDR-2212 1
Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive

Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a ValueDisc BD-R disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive: This drive is able to burn these discs at up to 12x. This will be the speed used on this post: Burning a disc in this drive at its maximum speed takes less than 12 minutes: Disc verification is successful: Overall, it takes less than 23 minutes to burn and verify a single disc at 12x. Here is the disc burned surface: Quality Scans…

Read More Read More

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

Comments 0 Comment

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…

Read More Read More

SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB RITEK-BW1-001 1
The SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB discs and burning it in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

The SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB discs and burning it in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see the SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB disc. This is a rewritable, single-layer Blu-Ray disc that can hold up to 25GB of data. Rewritable discs are the slowest Blu-Ray media available, only allowing them to be burnt at up to 2x speed. This is my first time using a rewritable Blu-Ray disc, so we’ll see how it performs in my Panasonic UJ-260 drive. The discs comes in a 10-disc spindle: Similar to the SmartBuy BD-R 25GB discs,…

Read More Read More

Panasonic UJ-260 with SmartBuy DVD+R DL
Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burn in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive: This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 2.4x and 6x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 6x. Burning the disc seem to have gone well: This drive burns dual layer discs using a Z-CLV strategy. It starts burning at 2.4x, then increasing the speed to 4x, and finally reaching 6x. On the second layer, it…

Read More Read More

Optiarc AD-7561A with SmartBuy DVD+R DL
Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burn in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 2.4x and 4x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 4x. Burning the disc seem to have gone well: While in the very first image I realized it doesn’t show the burning speed, it was actually burning at 2.4x. Same as the last image, since the drive burns in…

Read More Read More

SmartBuy DVD+R DL 1
The SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50 disc Spindle

The SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50 disc Spindle

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, We’ll see the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50-disc spindle. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek Corporation. These discs can hold up to 8.5GB of data and can be burned at up to 8x. These have a logo top: On the data side, they have a dark purple color: The Media Code of these discs is RITEK-S04-66: In some of my next few posts, we’ll see how these discs burn and scan on some of my drives. Look…

Read More Read More

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!

Comments 0 Comment

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…

Read More Read More

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

SmartBuy BD-R 25GB Logo Top 50 Pack Review

Comments 0 Comment

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…

Read More Read More

Optiarc AD-7561A with PlexDisc DVD+R
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we’ll take a look at how the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. We will be using ImgBurn again to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at up to 8x here. The drive burned the disc using a Z-CLV strategy, starting at 2.4x, and jumping to 4x, 6x, and 8x: The disc appeared to have burnt fine, but the quality results seem to point…

Read More Read More