media determination

[kendrick]

I am trying to find out how to
A) when i come across media in the store figure out where it came from (how did you know ricoh made it, tabel of brand, manufacture location = manufacturer? if so where is that)

b) what would be good for game backups and also movie dvd backups

I just found a program that works with the 411s dvd writer that allows me to find who likely made the disks but that wont help me untill after i bought some

also i see mention of reagon free yet i havent found where to get it