The Dolphin tells it like it is....

[Beradon]

I apologize for the ignorant question (I haven't been keeping up with media/writing technology) but where are we now in terms of maturity levels in terms of quality of media and quality of burns with Blu-Ray? Every time a new form of media is released, it seems to take years before serious storage fanatics will trust the media and even when they do, it is during that time that knowledgeable saviors such as the TDD tell us all how to go about getting the most from our media.

I'm no expert either but judging from experience(I came from the days of early CD-R burning) the quality now for Blu-ray should be dependable considering only a handful of brand name manufacturers are producing these discs. This is a good thing as quality control is going to be looked at by the licensee. The other positive is that large scale "bottom rung" manufacturers are not in the game yet so this should keep questionable media out of the blu-ray market for awhile.

Just an FYI I've seen Verbatim blu-ray blanks(25GB) sell at $22 for a 10pk.
Not bad and you can't go wrong with verbatim.

[miss_swan]

I remember seeing him active elsewhere but can't remember where now. Might have been cdfreaks.

Think he was an editorial contributor/tester for cdfreaks ... not sure what he's doing now.

[Sgt_Strider]

Think he was an editorial contributor/tester for cdfreaks ... not sure what he's doing now.

CDFreaks change its name. I think it's Myce now.

[miss_swan]

CDFreaks change its name. I think it's Myce now.

Yeah, that's right.

I forgot about that, guess that shows how much i've been following the scene lately, huh?

[Spike]

Anyone know what media code current Maxell DVD+RWs have? I vaguely recall buying a pack of what I think were Maxells a couple years ago and they were unusable garbage. They have them at Staples for 15/$7.86.

[zod]

I'm no expert either but judging from experience(I came from the days of early CD-R burning) the quality now for Blu-ray should be dependable considering only a handful of brand name manufacturers are producing these discs. This is a good thing as quality control is going to be looked at by the licensee. The other positive is that large scale "bottom rung" manufacturers are not in the game yet so this should keep questionable media out of the blu-ray market for awhile.

Just an FYI I've seen Verbatim blu-ray blanks(25GB) sell at $22 for a 10pk.
Not bad and you can't go wrong with verbatim.

I've been thinking of going to bluray when i'm done going through most of my current dvd's. Thats like 5 dvd's worth of stuff on one disc. Works out to be a bit more then a DVD, but would take up way less space