Comments on: Christmas Shopping the geek way: Blank DVDs

By: music

music — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:17:16 +0000

Has anyone here experimented with the printers that print a label directly onto your DVD? A few months back I saw one for the first time and bought a set of the DVDs which come with a blank white label on top. I suppose itÃ¢â�¬â�¢s similar to those kits you can buy that allow you to create a label that you peel off of a page and stick on to your disk. In this case, though, the label is already there, only itÃ¢â�¬â�¢s blank. However, I havenÃ¢â�¬â�¢t seen any of these printers in stores lately, and so I wondered if they just didnÃ¢â�¬â�¢t catch on, or if there was actually something wrong with them. In addition, I wonder if some of these selling techniques (ie marking up garbage to look like gold) are being used in the CD industry as well. I would expect it since many of the companies involved produce both. Is there a web site that offers categories the way this one does?

By: OnlineShopping

OnlineShopping — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:52:24 +0000

Wow, I had no idea it was possible to get “swindled” like that. That’s crazy. I had been having problems burning cd’s (mp3 and/or data) lately and I thought something was wrong with my burner or the drive itself, but nope, just bootleg cds. That website you linked to was great and very informative. I’m gonna bookmark it (and this post) because I know I’ll never be able to remember the heirarchy of dvd quality (ie first class, second class etc.). That’s good information to have handy though, and I’ll definately want to have easy access to it before I go buy blank cds or dvds again. I’m kind of surprised to see Philips so low on the list though. I would have thought their products to be of a higher quality. I guess I was wrong though. All in all great post though, and thanks again for linking to that website.

By: Michel Bozgounov

Michel Bozgounov — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:16:58 +0000

Hmmm, and where is VERBATIM in this list? I know that it should be somewhere in the top?…

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:03:42 +0000

I should mention that the brand of the DVDs was “Hyundai” and the media ID being used was TYG02, which is apparently a popular media ID used for fakes. I’m really surprised a big chain like Future Shop was carrying these things. Oh and the link in your article pointing to svp.com should be svp.co.uk

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:23:46 +0000

I just came across that same table and was shocked to discover after a media ID check that the spindle of (extremely cheap, and therefore inherently suspicious) DVD-Rs I purchased from Future Shop (a Best Buy-owned electronics retailer here in Canada) were, in fact, masquerading as high quality Taiyo Yuden DVDs. The first two in the stack worked fine, while every subsequent DVD I’ve attempted to use has failed to even be detected by my burner… Suffice it to say, I’ve learned my lesson. No more cheap media…