Supermediastore has Printable DVD Media Ritek Ridata Double Layer DVD+R DL White Inkjet Printable 25 Pack in Cake Box - Free Ground Shipping 49.75

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Mack

Nice. . . .if you happen to have a burner that gets along with Ritek D/L. Probably one of the worst firmware support in existance. I know it's not I-J Printable but Verbatim D/L can be had on sale for about that price. I will gladly sacrifice a fancy label to have a disc that works.

I think they are cheaper at the egg.

Yeah, plus they're Riteks; the only time I get fixating errors are with Ritek (AKA "Memorex") DL media.
Heh. You know those "Poser Mobile" ads are T-Mobile mocking Boost, right?

thanks Mack, no problems with ridata, at least the 2.4x - burning(liteon 1693S) or panny/liteon/pc player. Although think I did get at Newegg for a little cheaper - but not by much.

Thanks Mack,

Apparently we're (you, larry, gmacs, gary and me) are in the minority on this one. I dropped a similar post a while back and got some very unhappy Ritek customers...no one was rude or anything...they just hate 'em.

You may be interested in the post by ripit near the end of this thread...very enlightening:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=158282

BTW, they are a little cheaper at newegg...often can be had for free shipping too.

Tom, I looked at that thread. Defintely some very unhappy people with Ritek, although the scan results never posted as requested by a satisfied Ritek user. However I am going to scan the discs I have done just for hah hah's......Scans in past have defintely showed the SL TY's very reliable. Also in this thread I noticed one post that the Riteks were actually Memorex...that I would never buy/try. Can't convince me that some of these otherwise quality media suppliers don't provide same quality discs to some retailers, like Memorex. I guess if actual Ritek an issue, thankful for all of us successful users no issues!

Well, my DL Memorex' are "RITEK-D01". I've got some successful burns with them, but every now and then I get a fixation error with them that I don't get with my "MKM-001" Verbatims.

Quite a while back (3-5 months ago), there were many posts in the Plex forum about bad Ritek 2.4x DL media. As I recall, they never posted the MID (media ID).

I replied saying I had no issues with them using my 716A. The MID is RICOHJPN -D00-01.

One of the posters replied that the issue(s) were with the 'original' ritek DL media and that the Ritek/RICOH DL stuff was pretty decent.

In any event, I have still have no issues with them (burn w/ DVDD), as long as you burn them at their rated speed (2.4x). I burned one by accident at 4x, and it froze once or twice in my stand alone.

Best REgards

I have never seen a good scan of the ritek D01. A few OK ones burned with Pioneer
drives? I thought it was pretty much agreed that the media is crap.
Verbatim DL are often sold for 2$ a disk on sale, why not buy the best?

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.ph...=2353#comments

You have no issues because you're comparing two different things thinking they're the same. Ridata brand is sometimes RICOHJPN which is not Ritek D01. These disks are better than Ritek D01. But you can't be sure when you buy your next spindle it will still be RICOHJPN. They can switch at any time.

Right now, the Ridata printables are D01 and the non-printables are RICOHJPN. At least that's how it was when I got my last spindles of both.

Appears the Riteks are very burner dependent when it comes to success. Mine are the "dreaded" D01's (non-printable also), so for now hope can get through the 25 spindle without problems. But won't discount the complaints here, and provided links to same. Will look for the VB's next time, unless they fall off the wagon.

Quantum, thanks for the info...didn't realize "...they switch at any time..."
I've gone through two of my three 25-spindles, so far have been RICOHJPN D00 (001) (non-printable)...no problems. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the third spindle. I've got four 10-pks of verbs coming - raincheck from OM. Looks like I'll be staying with verbs from now on.

Larry, you picked up the Ritek 2.4X (non-printable) at newegg right?...probably soon after me... I wonder when in hell they switched? This definitely sucks!

Printable version in most cases or all cases, is not as good as the non-printable. But the non-printable DL discs from Ritek are craps, so I would not risk $50. I still have 5 ritek DL discs, I got them for free from newegg for buying an NEC burner and I dont know what to do with them since both of my NEC drives (3500 and 3540) and both of my BenQ drives (1620 and 1640) dont like the ritek DL

The point that I was trying to make in my post: The MID is an important piece of info. whether they are printable or not. The '...JPN' stuff appears to be decent for me with my burner.

Best Regards

Tom, yes they were from newegg, and defintely the apparently "crap" (D01) ones as indicated a few times in this thread. Guess you did good to get the 3 spindles of the better type.

Well, mostly "good"...just checked the 3rd spindle...you guessed it, they're definitely the crap (D01) discs...
How's your crap burning so far?...didn't you pick up a liteon 1693s recently?

The Riteks that I got from Newegg are D01s and noticed a post there in their customer feed back that what you get appears to be related to West or East Coast warehouse. Supermediastore displays the media codes on the page with the item description, so I know those are D01s and that is good for me as my Benq 1625 is not on the list for the others. I have not used either yet, but will do some this weekend.
Link for burners and firmware:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/super...-plusr0707.pdf

I went through and read 37 mixed reviews on:

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

I found there were some burners and FW that had good results that were not on list or had wrong FW, But all bad reviews came mostly from burners on list with wrong FW or not on the recommended list from Ritek. I have a Liteon burner cannot remember model that I have burnt over 30 Riket 16X sls on at high speeds and had no coasters until ran into a protection that DVD43 would not handle. Since there has been so much negativity about Ritak on this thread I did some research and found that they changed their dye in 2004 and had some bad discs that came about because of high demand. They farmed out some of their production at that time. A Ritak service rep acknowledged this as being fact. I searched for independent tests and reviews. Probably need to stop for now as to explain more tends to get further off topic. I have also read that bad media has been the blame for bad user actions on all media.

Mack

Over in a forum I do a little moderating at, one of our more experienced regulars
bought the ritek DL's from newegg, he's not made out and out coasters but had
major playability problems, he's scanned the burns to the Nth degree. They look horrible, today one of our noobs bought the verbs and burned his first DL, took it
to an old PS2 and it played beautifully.

Again, I've lost several Ritek D01s due to fixating errors (on non-full discs, at that). That ain't "user error", and my drive (see .signature) supports -D01 natively (and I don't overspeed).

Mack,

Thanks for the excellent (as always) research. Seemingly, my liteon 1633s is ok with either the RICOHJPNs or the D01s. Haven't burned any D01s yet (3rd spindle...just opened to check the MID). Maybe tonight...I'll let you know.

Anyone care to post a scan with D01 or D00, and report their success/failure rate.