Verbatim DVD+R SL media and Taiyo Yuden

Hey all,

Is DragonPC (aka Limited time=forever) still the cheapest place to buy
Verbatim DVD+R SL blank media? What about -R? It's been a while since I
ordered and since PriceSpy doesn't index media at a lot of stores and
I'm lazy to ask thought I'd ask here. I'm sure there someone who's
looked into it recently.

Also anyone came across Taiyo Yuden media here other then the expensive
blackcd.co.nz?

Cheers

 

I've never seen anywhere else you can buy Taiyo Yuden in NZ. I was
considering buying some from the US when there was no stock of the
Verbatim printable DVD-Rs in NZ for about 6 weeks or so. Once the
freight was added the Taiyo Yudens were more expensive than
blankcd.co.nz though, and I checked out a few different places as well.

I buy all my media from aquilatech.co.nz - haven't managed to find
anyone else who can beat their prices for printable verbatim dvd-r and
verbatim cdr.

 

The Imation DVD that I have are made by Ricoh, these are also very good DVD's,
but I also have some Ricoh Branded DVD's

Ricoh is one of the leaders in this kind of development, and makes Lasers for
these devices, I think they invented to CD-RW disk..

 

Ricoh also make creat DVD's

 

I bought some Imation ones that were really crappy while I was waiting
for the Verbatims to come back into stock - they weren't Ricoh ones. IN
fact the ATIP info doesn't even have a manufacturer name, just some
strange numbers. I've always found Ricoh CDs to be excellent quality
(haven't used the DVDs).

The Verbatim ones are made by Mitsubishi which I think own Verbatim. I
seem to have a bad CD about 1 in 70 (DVDs are all good) but that could
be due to my cd writer (which is a Ricoh - DVD writer is an LG). They
get a fair amount of use - about 400 CDs and 50 DVDs per month.

Given that sort of load what do you think about frequency of replacing
the writer?