Verbatim DVD-R

ottoman · #1 16-05-2003, 16:57

An interesting point has come up about verbatim dvd-r.

I tried them a whil back after reading several recomends.

I burned them on a pioneer a-04 drive. Out of five I got no results. Two crapped out in mid burn while the other three were unreadable in my version 5 and 7 ps2.

Still I hear good things about them. I assumed that verbatim did several different types of dvd-r with different dye's but it turns out that they don't. They all use one dye.

However u can get dvd-r with normal flipside (i.e silver with brandname on) or inkjet printable ones (very white flipside).

The inkjet printable ones have a lighter write surface because of the transparency of dvd-r's and don't seem to work as well.

Admitedly I was using a primative firmware on my dvd writer so have ordered another batch of inkjet printable dvd-r's and will test with firmware 1.31 and 1.4 with X1 and X2 burn speed on GTAViceCity and depending on results will then go on to non inkjet printable ones.

For the mo I would recomend that u use the non ink jet printable ones as they have a darker write surface although they use the same dye and PS2 seems to thrive on darker write surface.

Regards and if anyone can add to this please do!!

upmanu · #2 17-05-2003, 06:18

i had same problem these disks and returned them to website and got them changed, they definitely dont want to play on ps2.

Datawriter · #3 17-05-2003, 06:49

Great Discs for PS2 Are Datawrite 1X and 2X and 4X out of over 1000 back-ups 1 coaster

how good is that

So in my eyes PS2 games should be burnt using

DATAWRITE MEDIA

Warlock · #4 17-05-2003, 07:26

Its possible you just got a bad batch of media, i got about 50 backups on TDK media and never had any problems yet i just got a 100 pack that maybe 1 out of every 5 disc will produce a quality backup.

dust2dust · #5 18-05-2003, 02:03

ottoman i can gaurantee u 100% that verbatim uses 2 diff dyes (maybe more)

the old injet printable one that svp sells (work fine here )

the new cheaper version sold by svp also on a spindle never used these

but svp gives u dvdinfo of the new disks i gaurantee u they are diff and use diff dye

i bet theres a few other dye types they used out there aswell

dust2dust · #6 18-05-2003, 02:04

ps but i still recomend riteks

i got ritek inkjet printables now

rubber2k1 · #7 19-05-2003, 07:55

I hve only used Verbatim dvd-r and Ritek dvd-r without any problems. When I first started out burning dvd-r i used verbatim and never had any problems. Now i use Riteks since they are cheaper. I also have the Pioneer 104 and a V7 PS2.