Did I get ripped off? Also, bad lasers, wrong media and strange modchips!

[patch god]

^ lol good reply. Yeah use ritek, but you will get slight noises. DVD-Rs can never be as good as originals.

I have been using TY and Ritek for my backups and have had no probs yet.

[Farkad]

One last thing; I have a NEC ND 2500a DVD burner. After reading the forums on CDfreaks I found out that using new firmware would help. I was reccomended the Herrie's 1072b5 firmware. Does anyone here have any arguments for or against using it?
Also, it seems like that firmware will let me burn RitekG04 DVDs at 8X. I read here that sometimes it is good to burn at max speed, and sometimes - At slowest speed. Which is the case here? Should I burn at slowest possible speed or at fastest speed?

[lufcfan]

Always burn at the fastest speed and Herrie's Fw's are very good

[Farkad]

Durr. I keep having stupid questions;
The store that NoNo9 reccomended, that I was planning to buy the discs from doesn't know if these are G04 Riteks. They say that it doesn't say anywhere on the box or the DVD if these are G04 or not. The price is also a bit cheaper then in most stores, but not by much(15-20%). Should I watch out of them or are Riteks generally good. Are RitekWHATEVER DVDs better then the Memorex ones that I have?

Once again, thanks to everyone for the help!

Edit: Here is the link to the page with the discs. It's in hebrew, so it won't tell you much, but it has a picture there. Hopefully that'll help.

[NoNo9]

I purchased those disks from them a few days ago and they are indeed G04s.