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What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby jag32266 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:24 am

Boy! What an old thread, huh?

My 2 cents-
recently tried my hand after using Tayu Yuedin (sp) forever (loved these disk and NEVER had a problems in cd or dvds) to trying out LightScribe. I had a recorder on 1 of my pc's that I thought I'd see if I liked the outcome. LightScribe are the disks you buy for DVD recordings and then you flip them over in your recorder.
You can create a label using LightScribe software, free, or some programs such as Nero come with the plugin to do this. You record your video onto them first, then turn them over in your recorder, you can now burn a home made label onto the coated surface and voila! no more messy hand writing!!!

I've gone a step further, :-5 , and taken a Tif image of a blank into PSE6. Then, in using a desktop capture s/w, I lift frames from the video to use as jpeg images. Three or four of these and a additional Title and I'm done.
Now I have a permanent label ON my dvds.

I'm happy!

Lately, dvd blank prices have fallen (thank you blu-ray) and you can get a cake box of 25 LightScribe disks for about $14.00 US at your local pc shop- Best Buy, ComUSA etc. That is less than a buck each and for what this does for labels I find it well worth it.

Some thoughts-
Contrast plays a HUGE part in this since the _only_ color is that of the disk, they come in several different shades. The label ends up as a b/w on your disk so it's the contrast that makes it more legible. I usually use a simple solid white or solid black text.
These are loads of templates offered on several sites and even some sites that allow you to upload your own- google helps find these :-D . Some of the templates are blanks and have slots where you can add your own images- these are the style I use.
Oh- and they also come in cd blanks.

Average burn time for the label is about 20 mins.

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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby jag32266 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:14 am

here's a sample and a blank, just in case. Btw, don't forget you are building a donut style template- don't forget the hole...
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby jag32266 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:21 am

Here's a (lo-res) PSE6 template I use and *.tif files are suppose to retain layers.
If this doesn't I can upload a PSD file for use..
btw, many brands of LightScribe disks are out there. I've had gr8 results with Philips.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby ridon127 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:37 pm

bgsnmky wrote:Use -R when possible as more DVD players will be able to use them, but if everyone has a new DVD player/computer the +R should work.


I just want to make sure that I got this right before I order a lot of DVDs.. -R is the best choice and with a slower burning speed? I am using Lightscribe to label..
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Doreen L. » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:54 pm

Yep, -R is the best especially on older DVD players along with a slower burning speed.

I do like how the discs come out using LightScribe but sometimes you have to make sure that there's enough contrast in the photo you use so that it doesn't come out a little muddy.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:58 pm

Hi Donna,
If you are going to burn with Premiere Elements you have no control over the burn speed, so the disc rating is very important.
I do recommend -R DVDs and 8x would be best if you are using Premiere Elements to burn.

I was checking around and it seems that 8x lightscribe discs are hard to find and not too cheap. I am sure glad I use the inkjet printables, the ink and the printer can't add up to the cost of the discs if I were to use those. Considering I print about 20 DVDs a week I don't think I could afford Lightscribe, not even thinking about the difference in the time it takes to print the DVDs, 2 minutes for the inkjet printable versus about 10 - 20 minutes for a lightscribe disc.
The inkjet printable discs come out looking great in full color and any kind of text or graphics. The printer cost me $30 and the discs are available for about .15 each, sometimes less on sale. The cost of the ink is worth it and can't be much different than the additional cost for the lightscribe discs.

Anyway, you might be stuck with 16x discs but if you can burn to a folder and use another program to burn the discs that would be ok.
Also, lots of people have reported that they are not having any issues with the 16x discs at all anymore, might just be over cautious :-k
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby ridon127 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:11 pm

Media Super Store has a 110 pk of verbatium 16x -R DVDs for $110. Does that sound about right? I am going to look some more tomorrow cause it it close to my bedtime.. Early to bed, early to rise.. :lol:

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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:35 am

These are the same disc but cheaper, not sure where you found the 110 pack
http://www.supermediastore.com/verbatim ... dvd-r.html
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby jag32266 » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:06 am

Here you have a choice of more Verbatim in different speed recordings/styles;

http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/verbatim-16 ... 95101.html

just be sure to keep your eye on the shipping costs. I've delt with this company for years and basically no problems.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:48 am

But those aren't Lightscribe Jay ;)
Here are the Lightscribe discs
http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/lightscribe ... media.html
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby ridon127 » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:51 pm

Chuck Engels wrote:These are the same disc but cheaper, not sure where you found the 110 pack
http://www.supermediastore.com/verbatim ... dvd-r.html

:oops: I meant 150 :oops: I guess I was really tired...

I will check out the other links also...
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Ken Jarstad » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:46 pm

I get email flyers from Cdrdvdmedia.com and I just spotted a deal if you ever need double-layer disks:

25 DVD+R DL Ritek (the recommended brand) for $22.99 usd

http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/dual-layer-dvd-dl-r-media.html
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby jag32266 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:11 am

Hey chuck!

Ya, I knew that but,.. someone had mentioned that they didn't like the results of LightScribe sooo, thought I'd throw in something for them as well.
>>But those aren't Lightscribe Jay ;)
Here are the Lightscribe discs>>

besides; I knew someone one smart would pick up on the LS disks \:D/

Oh and btw, you should still check out your local shops. I found some Philips Light Scribe dvd disk at my local CompUSA- 25 for 14.99 yikes what a deal!
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby RJ Johnston » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:36 pm

Ken Jarstad wrote:I get email flyers from Cdrdvdmedia.com and I just spotted a deal if you ever need double-layer disks:

25 DVD+R DL Ritek (the recommended brand) for $22.99 usd

http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/dual-layer-dvd-dl-r-media.html



I bought some of those Ritek, but they were under the Memorex brand at Office Depot on sale. Only had to buy 15 and cost about $13.99. I've burned several with no problems using my new LG Super Multi DVD Writer.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby William Tranter » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:43 pm

As an aside to this thread, I usually record my finished videos to tape, THEN transfer the video to DVD. For several years I used a Sony DVD recorder/player to do this rather than the rather 'flaky' way via PE1, and as long as I only played the finished DVD in that particular machine, all was well. I used Verbatim DVD+RW discs, because they allowed me to vary the thumbnail shown in the title list. Then I bought a Sony Vaio laptop, and a few weeks ago I wanted to ensure that some DVD recordings I'd made would play on it when I took it up to a friend's place. I had all sorts of problems with the DVD+RW discs - the audio would almost fade away, then swing from right to left, then back again (!), and eventually the playback would freeze.
Not knowing what was causing this problem, I tried a commercially-made DVD (a film) which I found played perfectly, so the problem wasn't with the DVD drive in the Vaio. It must have been the discs themselves.
So I tried a home-produced DVD which I'd recorded, but this was a DVD+R disc, and it played perfectly, all three hours of it.
Now I have transferred all my video recordings from the DVD+RW discs to new DVD+R discs (all Verbatim brand), and I have no problems at last.
I can only put it down to the much 'paler' dyes used in DVD+RW discs (as opposed to DVD+R discs).
Has anyone else come across this problem, I wonder?
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