Wat media do you use?

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If I was to put a few DVD-R’s on a scale, 10 being the best and 1 being complete garbage it would look something like this:

10-
09- Taiyo Yuden
08-
07- Verbatim
06- Ultran , (ID - VDSPMSAB)
05- Ritek G04
04- TDK G02
03-
02- Princo, Memorex, Vanguard and Dozens more Cheap media
01-

My PS2 will read TY to Ritek. My Xbox will read TY to Ultran, it will not read Ritek and this is my reason for placing Ultran above Ritek.

I use an LG 4040B burner, I am undecided as to the quality of my LG burner. It may be more sensitive to cheap media than some other burners.

I might have put Verbatim even higher but you never know what your getting with Verbatim, they change manufacturing so much.

All media that I place 5 or under, the quality takes a huge dive toward the end of the burning. Even Ritek media is often sketchy especially after the 4 Gig mark. The lower cheap media are almost complete junk but you can get by using them for PC data or something you don’t care too much about. I never bother with these unless I’m burning under 2 Gigs on them because the error rates on these DVD’s usually go off the charts anywhere after that.