Are Optodisck dvd-r any good

zelos · #1 26-09-2003, 08:22

Hey I can get some Optodisck DVD-r at a local computer shop for cheap, well as cheap as I can get them where I live, and I was wondering if these DVD-r's are any good? I checked it out on dvdinfo and this is the stats for it

Media Information
Disc Regions are: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID: OPTODISCK001
Format Type: UDF 1.02
Volume Name:
Application id:
Implementation id: AuthoringWare Co. USA
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy): 9/ 4/2003 18:14:13:
Format Capacity: 4.34GB(4.66GB)
Free Blocks: 0
Book Type: DVD-R
Media Type : DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed : 1.0x 1385KBps
Available Write Descriptor : CLV 1.0x 1385KBps
Write Strategy Speed: 1.0x 1385KBps
Data area starting sector: 30000h
Data area end sector: 22B201h
Linear Density: 0.267um/bit
Track Density: 0.74um/track
Number of Layers: 1

EVOEvo · #2 26-09-2003, 09:44

first all if there there dark pruple on the bottom then there good for ps2 games hold one up to the light and if u can see through it relly clear there crap

zelos · #3 26-09-2003, 11:57

I have a Verbatim DVD-r here and comparing the recording surface of the verbatim and the optodisc the optodisc has a little lighter color however I can see the light somewhat clearly (not as much as a cheap cd-r) even up to about a foot and a half, 2 feet away from my face with the verbatim I can barely see the light up to my eye so do you have any thoughts as for telling this with dvd's espicially I really can't tell well

EVOEvo · #4 26-09-2003, 13:58

well i bought some lead-data disk and i would go blind looking at the sun through them and the games played like crap on them now i bought some dvd-on dvd-rs u can see through them but not as much as lead and they play the games just fine so i thinking the darker the disk the better they play what u can do is buy the smallest pack of them and try them out i use kingdom hearts to test my disk out cause on cheap media the first moive sence skips relly bad cant even get into the game but with mid and high class media it plays fine and one last thing how much dose these cost ?

zelos · #5 27-09-2003, 09:46

they're $2.25 Canadian (with no case) which is actually pretty good as Princo's around here are $2.99. I tried an anime move I had download for backup purposes and I could swap through english and japanese langauge or subtitle but for some reason the extras and previews wouldn't work that well it would stop reading and say can't read disc or something along the lines of that but I actually think running the image off the computer with Daemon tools it did the same thing