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FACT: I have a PS2 with a dead DVD laser because of Princo disks. I ignored warnings from these guys when I started burning and Princo games were running fine. That did not last long, I watched the performance of my laser drop during use of these Disks within weeks and eventually I had to increase laser power and adjust the drive to read these disks and soon the laser was so bad original DVD’s would not read.

The Xbox drives are better quality drive than the old PS2 drives but that does not mean it will be immune to bad DVD-R media. No two lasers , and no two burners are created equal as well as no two media are exactly the same. Where cheap media is concerned, the surface quality of these disks can be very irregular and burn quality unpredictable from one burn to the next . I have tried princo’s on the xbox for testing purposes. I found that some Xbox’s will read the princo’s better than others but most will start to choke on data half way through the DVD-R. Exactly the same way PS2’s choke on data half way through a cheap DVD-R, as media gets more unreliable towards the outside edge of the disks.

If you can burn full 4.7 gigs worth of data on cheap media and have smooth reading through the whole DVD-R. If you can do that with consistently good success disk after disk, consider yourself lucky because you are definitely a minority and lucked out with a good batch of disks or an extraordinary burner. For most of the people out there Princo’s (cheap media) are a very bad idea, and that is a fact!