Topic: Now That Verbatims Are Made In India, Which Brand Should I Get? (Read 187 times)

digitalman42 · « **on:** February 02, 2020, 10:57:00 PM »

The india discs are crap, I had 5 duds out of 20. Memorex spindles in the red spindles, the old 2x4 works great, but I got a new spindle of memorexes in the blue/purple spindle, the faster ones, my lite on dvd burner wouldnt even read them. Are there any other good brands that work good with 360??? how about Sony or TDK??

Symph0ny · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2007, 11:06:00 PM »

Some report success using phillips media. The Samsung drives will read just about anything, other drives not so much. It's hard to match verbatim quality, and I don't know if taiyo youden is making dl disks yet.

Devedander · « **Reply #2 on:** December 23, 2007, 02:44:00 AM »

Yeah I have been hearing bad things about the verbs lately too and it's making me rather gunshy... I have found some Memorex 2.4x for fairly good price around me... anyone got experience with how those work out on BenQ?

skoda1800 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2007, 04:26:00 AM »

india is off to a shaky start for media.

digitalman42 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2007, 10:32:00 PM »

Anybody try the new verbatims?

snuffrooster · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2007, 10:38:00 PM »

How do you know if the verbatims are made in Singapore? Is there any way to know just by looking at the disc?

digitalman42 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2007, 10:43:00 PM »

I meant anyone try the new Memorex's?? I just did, nothing but coasters. Wow this sucks, memorexs and Varbatim no good, are there any other brands?

QUOTE(snuffrooster @ Dec 24 2007, 05:38 AM)

How do you know if the verbatims are made in Singapore? Is there any way to know just by looking at the disc?

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 24, 2007, 04:40:00 AM »

*Sigh* People need to read the updates in my media thread. ALL 8x official DL DVD+R Verbatim IS STILL MADE IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So buy the 8x official stuff and you will be fine.

http://www.buy.com/p.../205631517.html

digitalman42 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 24, 2007, 12:31:00 PM »

Thats not true, I bought Vertbatim 8x dual layers off newegg, they were made in India, and about %30 were coasters. Iv'e used a ton of singpore 2.4 verbatims, not one coaster.

QUOTE(jesterrace777 @ Dec 24 2007, 12:16 PM)

*Sigh* People need to read the updates in my media thread. ALL 8x official DL DVD+R Verbatim IS STILL MADE IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So buy the 8x official stuff and you will be fine.

http://www.buy.com/prod/verbatim-dvd-r-dl-.../205631517.html

Commex · « **Reply #9 on:** December 24, 2007, 05:13:00 PM »

QUOTE(digitalman42 @ Dec 24 2007, 08:31 PM)

Thats not true, I bought Vertbatim 8x dual layers off newegg, they were made in India, and about %30 were coasters. Iv'e used a ton of singpore 2.4 verbatims, not one coaster.

No that is true, you seem to have a stick up your @ss because he has like 4k posts and is completely correct. the 8x ones are only made in SINGAPORE, you bought 2.4x verbs which are now made in india from newegg. 2.4x singapores dont exist anymore, just get 8x singapores that are orange and branded at 8x, not 2.4x.

digitalman42 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 24, 2007, 07:22:00 PM »

My bad dude, they were 2.4x I stand corrected.

QUOTE(Commex @ Dec 25 2007, 12:49 AM)

No that is true, you seem to have a stick up your @ss because he has like 4k posts and is completely correct. the 8x ones are only made in SINGAPORE, you bought 2.4x verbs which are now made in india from newegg. 2.4x singapores dont exist anymore, just get 8x singapores that are orange and branded at 8x, not 2.4x.

This post has been edited by digitalman42: Dec 25 2007, 03:32 AM

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 24, 2007, 11:05:00 PM »

Yeah, the whole confusion comes in because the 2.4x will overspeed to 6x or 8x on most burners with no complications and so a bunch of stores and websites started advertising them as either 6x or 8x media. So people started trying to refer to them as 8x media. The 8x official stuff says 8x but will overspeed to 10x on some burners without any problems. The orange label used to be an easy identifier but unfortunately the newer ones released by Verbatim are all being listed with a standardized purple label. The good news is that the 2.4x MII ones all say 2.4x-6x now and the 8x ones are simply listed as 8x. You might still have some old stock of 8x official media that carries the orange label though.

snuffrooster · « **Reply #12 on:** December 25, 2007, 02:00:00 PM »

So the Verbatims made in Singapore are good? Theres a crapload of them at my local best buy, all made in Singapore...

Yankee427 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 25, 2007, 10:07:00 PM »

I bought the 20 pack of 2.4x ones and it says Made in India. I burned them with Imgburn at 2.4x for each dvd dl disk for each game and have not had one coaster. There has been 19 successes and then one I believe I crapped up the image and it said cannot play please put in xbox 360 console. The discs have been good to me.

They do take 40 minutes to burn at 2.4x but its worked every time so Im not gonna try and speed up something that has worked 100% of the time. Ive had nothing but working burns from the 2.4x ones at 2.4x and think I will be buying another spindle again now from newegg since they are on sale.

Ludeaholic · « **Reply #14 on:** December 26, 2007, 11:16:00 PM »

I haven't had any problems with the new verbatims.. im using a samsung drive with iXtreme.

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