[ottoman]

Right. I am still at a loss as to why these dvd-r are such a popular choice. I got bitten by them a while back but after reading several recent reviews and having had several PS2's around to test them on I was disapointed yet again.I decided to order 25 Standard dvd-r.

First was the colour line-up. Comparison was Choice DVD-R(YUK!), Very light purple,almost silver write surface, Traxdata 4X very dark purple write surface and Verbatim which are somewhere in the middle. Next five test burns: These were Tony Hawks Underground, Resident Evil Dead Aim, Need for speed underground, SSX 3 and Manhunt.

Resident Evil seemed to boot up fine first time and gameplay was okay. Tony Hawks Underground wouldn't boot. After 5 attempts and some wierd laser sounds I gave up. SSX 3 booted but the video sequences were jumping and skipping around like mad. Didn't bother with the other two. These were tested on a version 5,7 and 9 and burned using RecordNowDX and a pioneer 106. I have working backups of above games on traxdata that work flawlessly.

So why do people still have so much good stuff to say about verbatim dvd-r. I've tried them twice now with two different burners and 3 different ps2's and they just don't do the job.

Verbatim datalife plus CDR are tops. DVD-R suck. Traxdata is without a doubt a better buy.