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Purchased this 25 spindle after many getting several high quality Memorex DVD+4 - 4 X media manufactured by Richoh (media id RICOHJPNR01) from Amazon at the lowest prices available anywhere. Unfortunately Amazon has no control on when Memorex sends them inferior bad media made by various sub contractors. Memorex merely puts their label on media mfg by their many subs. My Feb 2003 purchase of this item turned out to be badly made CMC MAG F01 and not Richoh. Most discs in lot I got have minute cracks, and you can see it was badly pressed all along the rims of the discs. Those CMC which did burn are so poorly manufactured that they can be expected to have very short life due to air and heat easily getting in and causing deterioration of dye. I might as well purchased 80 cent CMC from wholesalers if I wanted junk. Eight coasters out of 25 discs, whereas I have not had one coaster from the Amazon Richoh stuff out of hundreds burned. Moral, if you are going to buy repackaged DVD media from companies which only repackage media, buy small quantities, test and id media mfg of initial purchase with DVDINFOPRO or some other media identifier before you buy in quantity in any given Amazon lot.

I bought these discs at CompUSA because I needed a few before I got the ones I ordered online. Well, I just wated a good 25 bucks because out of 5 discs, I got one that burned good. Not much bang for the buck. I have burned many discs but never Memorex, usually Verbatim or Ridata or MAM. Very disgruntled with these discs making coasters. Maybe my burners don't like them but whatever the case, I won't buy them ever again. I thought Memorex made good products?

The DVDs I burned successfully showed the movies in excellent quality. The only problem is that for every 3 good burns I get one bad one. I'm using the Plextor DVD burner (love it!!), but I'm going to try my luck with a different DVD brand. The failure rate for Memorex is unacceptable. It's less the cost that bothers me, but more the time wasted on burning coasters.

...but as another reviewer pointed out, Memorex dumped Ricoh and went to CMC. The Ricoh discs had been top-shelf stuff, I only hope that I have enough of them left to hold me over until the dual-layer and 16x drives come out this summer!

I have burned about 10 movies so far out of the spindle and haven't had any problems. But if you have a nec nd-1100a burner you can not burn at 4x only 2.4x. Nec is not going to make a firmware to fix this problem.