I have been eBaying up Blu-Ray media now for quite a while, buying them up here and there for cheap when I see them.

Here is what I have accumulated. NOTE: All discs I have gotten for around $6 each shipped except the TDK BD-R DL, got them for $28 each (and that's shipped !)

3 - TDK 25GB BD-R "Made in Japan"
10 - Memorex 25GB BD-R "Made in Japan"
9 - Memorex 25GB BD-RE "Made in Japan"
6 - TDK 25GB BD-RE "Made in Japan"
13 - Sony 25GB BD-R "Made in Japan"
7- Memorex 25GB BD-R "Made in USA"
3 - LG 25GB BD-RE "Made in Korea"
2 - TDK 50GB DL BD-R "Made in Japan"
1 - Sony 25GB BD-RE "Made in Japan"

Dang!!!!

I am Blu-ray poor compared to you.

wow..very nice stash you got there

Very nice, MegaDETH. I won't take a picture of the 3 Verbtaim BD-R 25s that I have.

Have you successfully backed up a BD-50 movie onto one of your 50 gb discs - with no layer change problems?

Only two bd-re, one TDK and the other is the one that came with my burner.

I don't have a standalone Blu-ray player (YET) so I am just pretty much stocking up when I can get them cheap.

No photo but...

5x TDK BD-RE 2x (the brown ones above)
5x Verbatim BD-RE 2x (The nice blue ones, 4 are retail and one is from the LG BD drive 1st edition)
1x LG BD-RE 2x that came in my 2nd LG BD drive.

Going to be backing up my DVD collection in DivX format onto some of them, the others are for MP3 collecion etc. All will prob be used in "live format" format in Vista as I cant think of 25GB to put on the discs in one go and, unlike DVD, the drives support media managment.

Very nice! I have to take pics of my BD stash.

I only have one piece of Panny 50GB RE DL, burned in older GGW-H10L my PS3 won't recognize the disc.

I thought I read The Kiper and 2601 said they have no playback problem when burning with GGW-H20L.

I have a bunch of 25GB BD-R and RE's. I also have 2 BD-RE's, 50 GB, but I refuse to buy 50 GB-BD-R's until the price comes down to a reasonable level.

Yeah at $28 a pop I wasn't to keen on buying the BD-R DL's either but they are for use in reviews so it's all good.

I have one (yes, one) Verbatim 2x BD-R disc. That's it.

Do I get the award for crappiest/smallest amount?

That is one nice stash, MegaDETH

Haha sorry you don't get an award

I was just lucky in a few eBay auctions where no one bid, but who knows by the time I get to use them the price may have dropped, then you can laugh at me

Wow very Nice MegaDETH
I only two Sony 2x BD-R disc ( No Blu writer )

I do not remember burning anything to the Panny DL disc yet; I did not use it for the GGW-H20L review anyways.

Guess I could burn a DL BD movie to it and give it a try

i have

not burned yet:
2x Panasonic 4x BD-R branded
4x Panasonic 4x BD-R printable
5x TDK 2x BD-R
1x Verbatim 2x BD-R
1x Panasonic 2x BD-R DL
1x Panasonic 2x BD-RE
1x Verbatim 2x BD-RE

all made in Japan

had a chance to get few Memorex made in USA, but heard of a lot of issues, so i skilled.

burned i have
6x Panasonic 4x BD-R Printable
5x Panasonic 4x BD-R Branded
1x TDK 2x BD-R
1x Sony 2x BD-R


so far the worst disc would have to be the sony, it only burns at 1.7x

i had to throw away 3 disc, i backed up/converted 3 HD-DVD to blu-ray. but i didn't realize that doing that you have to remove the pulldown.

so i had 3 disc with interlaced video, no good

4 Verbatim printable 4x BD-R
6 TDK 2x BD-R printable
2 Verbatim BD-R 8cm
2 Verbatim BD-RE 8cm
1 JVC BD-R 2x

Nice H3rB3i! I'd like to have a few of those 4x Verbatim printables!

I'm so tempted to pick up some BD-R media, despite not having a drive to use them in. They're about $14-15CAD for a 25GB disc (I've looked on eBay, and the shipping kills whatever deal there is).

Does anyone agree with me in saying that the high price is a premium that almost guarantees quality media?

Think about it - at this stage, most brands are actually manufacturing their own media, which entails higher quality control (as opposed to letting an outsourcer manufacturer the media). I believe that this was the same case with CD-R and DVD-R (right now, there's all this business with the same MID to several brands, along with varying quality).

Panasonic is probably the biggest manufacture of BD media right now.

just don't buy LG, Memorex (made in USA) and sony media.

LG, currently is made in Korea, not sure if i would trust those
Memorex made in USA, has rather bad compability, Made in Japan Memorex is made by Panasonic
Sony media, only tried 2x media, it actually in my case only burned at 1.7x, while other 2x media burns around 2.0-2.1x