Ritek DVD's at Meritline

Mark S99 · #1 30-12-2003, 14:42

Well, I was thinking of buying some more blank DVD-R's this week. CompUSA has a special sale on 2x TDK DVD-R's, and so does Best Buy. Basically, I could either get a 25 pack of 2x TDK DVD-R's for about $32, or a 100 pack of 2x TDK DVD-R's for $120.

Then I checked Meritline's website and saw this....
http://www.meritline.com/meritline/rithigqualgo.html
A 100 pack of 2x Ritek G03 Grade A DVD-R's for $80.

I have a Sony DRU 510A 4x burner. I don't mind burning a DVD at 2x. I'm just wondering.....will the Ritek DVD-R's work just fine in my Sony burner? And should I buy them from Meritline? I don't want to have any problems ordering blank DVD media from Meritline (as one person did http://www.fileforums.com/showthread...threadid=56631 ), and $80 for a quality pack of 100 blank DVD's with free shipping sounds like a good deal to me. (I would use CC to pay for them.)

What do you all think? Will those Ritek's work fine with my Sony burner and will I be okay to buy them from Meritline?

spooky · #2 30-12-2003, 15:01

Hi Mark.

Well Ritek have to be one of the leading media producers in the industry and produce a lot of DVD/R and CD/R media for other companies, although these are 2x , G03 die and not G04 i think that $80 for 100 is still a damn good deal. Not sure what the exchange rate is but i recently spent £46 on 50 G04's.

I recon that you would have very few failures if any, especialy if you stick to the 2x as stated.

Good luck

spooky · #3 30-12-2003, 15:25

Me again.

Check with gh0sth@cker first, sounds to me like he has had a few problems with the Ritek G03's. If in doubt about conflicting information then just stick with the brand that works for you.

Warlock · #4 30-12-2003, 15:28

Quote:

Originally posted by spooky
Me again.

Check with gh0sth@cker first, sounds to me like he has had a few problems with the Ritek G03's. If in doubt about conflicting information then just stick with the brand that works for you.

Good to see you again spooky

spooky · #5 30-12-2003, 15:30

CHEERS MATE....

At least there is someone still here that i know.

EVOEvo · #6 30-12-2003, 17:28

just 1 thing about useing Meritline DO NOT PAY USEING PAYPAL i payed them with paypal and they never sent the order and aftr 18 days and about 10 emails 20 phone calls they finaly refund my cash and i turned around and bout a 50 pk with a credit card 2 days later i got a tracking #

i dont think them people keep up to date with paypal orders and also there free s/h is kinda slow i order on 24th dec 03 disk wont be here till 5th of jan 04 13 days to send from cali to Mo

it seems kinda slow to me

Mark S99 · #7 30-12-2003, 17:59

Hmmm, so at least I know I'll be safe ordering from them using credit card.

Spooky- How can I talk to gh0sth@cker about the G03 Ritek DVD-R's? Do you remember what kinds of problems he was having with them? Write errors? Playback errors?

So far I've been using TDK DVD+/-R's and DVD+RW's and I have had no errors burning yet. If there is a problem with the 2x G03 Ritek DVD-R's then I could always just get some TDK's instead. A little pricier, but guaranteed to work.

EVOEvo · #8 30-12-2003, 19:34

hmm i never had any problems with my g03s they worked great for all backups as well as g04s

EVOEvo · #9 08-01-2004, 13:30

i think im going to go back to useing rima for 107$ i got a 100 pk ritek g04's order on the 6th got them the 8th dam fast shiping and metirline tryed chargeing me 118$ for a 100 pk g04's with 2 day ship last 50pk i order took them 13 days ground shiping that was very slow they must walked them here or something lol takeing that long to get them

orion731 · #10 09-01-2004, 01:01

Bought a 200 pack of the G03's from meritline with a credit card and they work great. I haven't had any problems. I thought it was rather fast shipping also. Can't go wrong with the Ritek dye!