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Ram
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Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:
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What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
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Ram
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SleeperMan
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Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:
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Ram wrote:
| Quote: | What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
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i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think they are
cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as SmartBuy
CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning, if you 're
lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after burning... |
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Stephen Stewart
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Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject:
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"Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
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This is the cheapest I know of at the moment.
http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/product.php?productid=17752&cat=310&page=1
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Edward W. Thompson
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
<SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
| Quote: | Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think they are
cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as SmartBuy
CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning, if you 're
lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as |
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air. |
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Allen
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:
Re: Cheapest DVD Dual Layer Disks available in the UK? |
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Edward W. Thompson wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think they are
cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as SmartBuy
CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning, if you 're
lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air.
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The current issue (Oct 18) of PC Magazine, which arrived in my mail box
Friday, has an interesting column devoted to torture tests of several
cheap DVD recordables. It's online at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1862189,00.asp
Interesting reading.
Allen |
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SleeperMan
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:
Re: Cheapest DVD Dual Layer Disks available in the UK? |
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Edward W. Thompson wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think
they are cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as
SmartBuy CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning,
if you 're lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after
burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air.
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you don't have to see evidence of each and every sort of new disc to know
this fact. CDR's are worthless if they are of cheapest type, DVD's are also
same, i don't really see why it would be different in dual layer DVD
situation, since the cheapest type are same manufacturer, same dye only in
two layers. Note that DVD's are in general more vunerable to scratches,
low-quality dye etc....than CDR's, so here is only more to be carefull,
since if you have CDR , you can loose only about 700M, while in dual layer
DVD case you can loose whooopsy 8G (a bit more)...that's so much data that
i'd be really very carefull in choosing disc type.
But, do as you wish, just don't come back here after a couple of months with
a question of a sort: suddenly my DVD refuses to be recognized by
windows...etc..what to do..", since then i'll have to answer "i told you
so"... there are a lot of similar questions here regarding Packet data
writing (UDF---as InCD, DirectCD etc)... to CDRW's...there were tons of
posts saying that this is not advisble to use, it's very unreliable, it
happens that suddenly such CDRW is not readable anymore, etc...but there are
still a lot of wiseguys who think that all this can't happen to them, they
use this system and every now and then come here with above question. When
you ask them to get bakup copy, they usually say that this was only copy
they have...what a stupidity... |
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:
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"Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message
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Edward W. Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think they
are cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as SmartBuy
CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning, if you 're
lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air.
The current issue (Oct 18) of PC Magazine, which arrived in my mail box
Friday, has an interesting column devoted to torture tests of several
cheap DVD recordables. It's online at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1862189,00.asp
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I've been burning CDRs and DVDRs for some time now. I haven't noticed any
relation between the price and the performance. The only general rule I
follow is to avoid cyanine (light blue) dyes. They don't seem to handle
heat as well as phthalocyanine dyes (light straw to clear.)
Norm Strong |
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Dupre
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Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:
Re: Cheapest DVD Dual Layer Disks available in the UK? |
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I would recommend trying www.svp.co.uk, not only is the media cheap,
all media they sell comes with a full 1 year warranty!!
normanstrong@comcast.net wrote:
| Quote: | "Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message
news:ADa0f.9152$Q53.1247@tornado.texas.rr.com...
Edward W. Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think they
are cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as SmartBuy
CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning, if you 're
lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air.
The current issue (Oct 18) of PC Magazine, which arrived in my mail box
Friday, has an interesting column devoted to torture tests of several
cheap DVD recordables. It's online at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1862189,00.asp
I've been burning CDRs and DVDRs for some time now. I haven't noticed any
relation between the price and the performance. The only general rule I
follow is to avoid cyanine (light blue) dyes. They don't seem to handle
heat as well as phthalocyanine dyes (light straw to clear.)
Norm Strong |
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Edward W. Thompson
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Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:49 am Post subject:
Re: Cheapest DVD Dual Layer Disks available in the UK? |
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:34:10 +0200, "SleeperMan"
<SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
| Quote: | Edward W. Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks in
advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think
they are cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as
SmartBuy CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after burning,
if you 're lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few days after
burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are, as
you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is your
comment so much hot air.
you don't have to see evidence of each and every sort of new disc to know
this fact. CDR's are worthless if they are of cheapest type, DVD's are also
same, i don't really see why it would be different in dual layer DVD
situation, since the cheapest type are same manufacturer, same dye only in
two layers. Note that DVD's are in general more vunerable to scratches,
low-quality dye etc....than CDR's, so here is only more to be carefull,
since if you have CDR , you can loose only about 700M, while in dual layer
DVD case you can loose whooopsy 8G (a bit more)...that's so much data that
i'd be really very carefull in choosing disc type.
But, do as you wish, just don't come back here after a couple of months with
a question of a sort: suddenly my DVD refuses to be recognized by
windows...etc..what to do..", since then i'll have to answer "i told you
so"... there are a lot of similar questions here regarding Packet data
writing (UDF---as InCD, DirectCD etc)... to CDRW's...there were tons of
posts saying that this is not advisble to use, it's very unreliable, it
happens that suddenly such CDRW is not readable anymore, etc...but there are
still a lot of wiseguys who think that all this can't happen to them, they
use this system and every now and then come here with above question. When
you ask them to get bakup copy, they usually say that this was only copy
they have...what a stupidity...
I see, 'hot air', no evidence just 'bullshit'. |
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SleeperMan
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Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:
Re: Cheapest DVD Dual Layer Disks available in the UK? |
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Edward W. Thompson wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:34:10 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Edward W. Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:04:13 +0200, "SleeperMan"
SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:
Ram wrote:
What's the cheapest dual layer media available in the UK? Thanks
in advance.
i wouldn't get near cheapest ones, if i were you. Why do you think
they are cheap? Because they are worthed next to nothing. Same as
SmartBuy CDR's---they usually go useless a few months after
burning, if you 're lucky. If not, they can become wasted a few
days after burning...
Do you have any evidence to show the 'cheap' dual layer disks are,
as you say, 'worthless'. If you do, please share it with us or is
your comment so much hot air.
you don't have to see evidence of each and every sort of new disc to
know this fact. CDR's are worthless if they are of cheapest type,
DVD's are also same, i don't really see why it would be different in
dual layer DVD situation, since the cheapest type are same
manufacturer, same dye only in two layers. Note that DVD's are in
general more vunerable to scratches, low-quality dye etc....than
CDR's, so here is only more to be carefull, since if you have CDR ,
you can loose only about 700M, while in dual layer DVD case you can
loose whooopsy 8G (a bit more)...that's so much data that i'd be
really very carefull in choosing disc type.
But, do as you wish, just don't come back here after a couple of
months with a question of a sort: suddenly my DVD refuses to be
recognized by windows...etc..what to do..", since then i'll have to
answer "i told you so"... there are a lot of similar questions here
regarding Packet data writing (UDF---as InCD, DirectCD etc)... to
CDRW's...there were tons of posts saying that this is not advisble
to use, it's very unreliable, it happens that suddenly such CDRW is
not readable anymore, etc...but there are still a lot of wiseguys
who think that all this can't happen to them, they use this system
and every now and then come here with above question. When you ask
them to get bakup copy, they usually say that this was only copy
they have...what a stupidity...
I see, 'hot air', no evidence just 'bullshit'.
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as i said...just go and keep buying that crap...and i hope you'll loose most
important data to you ---only then you'll learn... |
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