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My experience with my first two spindles of these discs was very satisfactory. Actually I had not a single coaster, and I was able to burn all my DVDs at 4x with my NEC 1100A burner. I went ahead and bought 3 more spindles. What a mistake! Even though the package seems identical to that of the first spindles I bought, the discs looked physically different. And to my surprise, they were actually different media. My burner can only roast them at 2.4x. I made a bit research about it by using DVDIdentifier and I found that the last discs I bought have manufacturer id = CMC.MAG.F01 whereas the first ones I bought have manufacturer id = RICOHJPN.R01. Most probably my burner's firmware doesn't support this id, so that's why it uses its default speed of 2.4x. I knew I can flash my drive to correct this problem, but this is risky. In conclusion, I cannot recommend this product to anyone since I wouldn't know if other burners had this same issue. I am giving two stars to this product for the first two spindles I bought, but I got very very disappointed with my last purchase. I really think Memorex should use different labels for these spindles, so that customers can choose the media that suits them best. I think that's care for customers, and it would be fair.

I've owned burners for years and years, and I'm well-acquainted with coasters and bad media and bad drives. My latest incarnation of a Frankenmachine has a Sony internal DVD read/CD burner and an external Sony DRX-500ULX DVD/CD burner. I kicked Roxio's s/w to the curb awhile back and now use Nero's suite of tools almost exclusively.

I turned to dvdrhelp.com for some DVD media advice, which led me to some generic DVD-R Optodiscs. Wow, huge waste of money despite reviews saying they burn at 4x with my burner. So, after that spindle of coasters was burnt, I looked again at media, this time for a name brand.

Memorex had a run of cheap CDRWs a year ago that were 50% awful, 50% fast. I was reluctant to try them again, but Amazon had a great deal on DVD+Rs and the return policy is generous. Plus, I heard +Rs were generally more compatible... so I ordered the 25-pack.

I was burning at 4x, and every disc played in every DVD reader in the house (all Sony equipment). I can safely recommend this media to anyone with Sony equipment, at the very least. It's a joy to be able to burn DVDs at 4x, and not make coasters. Best of all, nobody sells these cheaper than Amazon. A terrific deal.

Fred

I have used the Memorex DVD+R discs for quite a lomg time now. I have probably burned over 100 movies using DVD X-Copy Express and Memorex DVD media without one failure. Can't get any better than that!

Although I just started using this media, it burns at 8x (actually 6x for first 750MB and 8x thereafter) on my Plextor 708A drive without any errors. The manufacturer id for this media is CMC MAG F01 which is listed on the Plextor media compatibility chart which means they have specific write parameters in their firmware for this media.. a good thing.
Culled from the plextor compatibility table found on their website.

CMC 2.4x/4x 4.7G 4x CMC MAG F01 0

CMC Magnetics, the OEM of this media is a major media manufacturer in Taiwan. There website is:

http://www.cmcdisc.com/index.htm

Burned over 100 of these, they work great in every player so far.