Verbatim DVD+R Blank Discs AZO Dye 4.7GB 16X Recordable Disc - 100 Discs Spindle,Silver

EDIT: This review applies to Verbatim 95098 & 97459 (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging of 95098) specifically! EDIT 2-16-2013: I absolutely love Amazon & Verbatim's Frustration-Free Packaging! It keeps your DVDs safe and sound much like NewEgg's packaging, but without all those pesky packing peanuts! And, for what it is worth, the batch I received recently was manufactured in Taiwan. In fact, I believe all the spindles with the Frustration-Free Packaging are manufactured and packaged in Taiwan.... Original Review: Bearing in mind that some media and some optical drives just do not get along, I would say that these discs (manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.) are the closest in quality to the cream of the crop (Taiyo Yuden) that I have come across. The "media ID code" that you should look for in this case is MCC 004. The thing to remember when buying blank DVD media is that brand name means little: you want a good manufacturer. For instance, I have burned some TDK media for a friend and noticed that one batch was manufactured by Ritek and another by CMC Magnetics. I strongly suggest visiting digitalfaq dot com and check out -->/reviews/dvd-media before you buy! Also, check out the freeware tool DVD Identifier, as well, so you know who is manufacturing your media. This will provide easy access to your disc's media ID. Hope this helps to cut back on "coasters!" EDIT December 21,2012 in reply to Anonymous comment below: There are lots of good references on the web such as videohelp dot com and MyCE dot com, among others. I used to like DVD Identifier (and still do), but it's database has not been updated for a couple years. But that doesn't bother me since all I burn are MCC 004s and it identifies those just fine. -- I recommend using ImgBurn to write the discs and it will show you the manufacturer of your blank disc. A quick Googling of ImgBurn will get you to their site - Amazon keeps killing my links to ImgBurn dot com and other resources. Verbatim branded MCC004s are manufactured in a few different countries and I have found subtle differences between those made in Taiwan and those in India. These are mostly cosmetic and the performance is not impacted - at least not in my experience and I've burned well over 1000 of these from both Taiwan and India and can count the coasters on one hand. -- Bear in mind that I am talking about the Verbatim 95098 line specifically. There are others that you should avoid. For instance, the "Life Series" is NOT manufactured to MCC standards using their proprietary AZO dye - rather, those are Moser Baer blanks that are branded Verbatim. This is where some of the confusion comes in because Moser Baer (India) does manufacture some 95098s and others for MCC and those are OK because they are made to MCC specifications. Bottom line: If you want a good blank disc, buy the Verbatim 95098 and make sure ImgBurn shows the the media code to be MCC 004 and you should be fine.

All these reviewers whining about MADE IN INDIA have no idea what they're talking about. They record and scan just as good as Singapore, UAE and Taiwan discs! Just received my 100-pack cake box and they are indeed MCC 004 (the best dye available for longevity, performance and consistency) Tiyo Yuden discs are just as good, but more expensive. Anyway, always purchase the Verbatim with AZO, NOT the life or value series with inferior CMC dye. These MADE IN INDIA Verbatims always scan out in Nero Cd Speed at 95% or higher! Super low PI errors and NO COASTERS! But I am using a good DVD Burner, the Benq 1650 with BCIC firmware. Make sure you burn at 8x for best results, not 16 or higher! Anyone that is still on the fence about ordering these just because they are "MADE IN INDIA" needs to read this: Mitsubishi (or rather Verbatim) has stated and re-stated several times that all MCC and MKM media is created with Mitsubishi equipment and materials, and Mitsubishi staff on-site to oversee production. While MCC has rented or otherwise made financial arrangements to use space (and likely personnel and non-essential equipment) in the facility of another manufacturer -- be it Moser Baer (MBI), Prodisc, CMC Magnetic (CMC) or Falcon Technologies (FTI -- the MCC media is still an MCC owned, created and controlled product. MCC is the manufacturer. Verbatim (an extension of Mitsubishi) is a very large worldwide brand, and they need a LOT of media for their worldwide markets. As such, one puny plant will simply not suffice. Therefore they have forged relationships with other companies. It was well-known back around 2004-2005 that MCC was taking companies like Prodisc, MBI and CMC "under their wing" to get them "up to speed" on how to function as a quality facility that meets the expectations of Mitsubishi (and their worldwide customers, of course). For a while there, we actually saw MBI and Prodisc media that was every bit as good as MCC discs! CMC was better, too, although still not up to MCC quality. Those were the 4x days of DVD-R. Based on the amount of care, time and financial effort that MCC put into those secondary non-MCC-owned locations, it would be silly for one facility to simply be allowed to create crap. Verbatim has a reputation that it very much wants (or at least wanted pre-2010*) to protect. The materials, processes and oversight used in India is not any different from what goes on at the locations in Taiwan. This has been not only implied by MKM and Verbatim USA, but explicitly stated by Verbatim Europe. Based on my observations in the past 5 or so years, the anti-India ramblings you find in user forums are due to secondary factors, be it drive-related or simply psychological. There's this idea that India is inferior to American goods -- or goods from countries accepted by Americans, such as Taiwan -- when it's not at all true. India has its issues, yes, just like anywhere else. But it also has a thriving technology (IT), medical and customer service market. There's nothing innately inferior about Indian products. And then most Indian media was first seen with the arrival of 16x DVD-R in the USA and Canada, and many of the subpar drives out there at the time (LG, especially!) worked poorly with MCC 16x media. Heck, those drives worked poorly with most media! Swapping to Taiwan discs made no difference. The few pieces of "proof" you find out there, on this topic of Taiwan being better than India, use PIF/PIE scanning methods that are simply too unreliable for this type of comparison. It's scientificesque methodology being implored by those individuals -- meaning that it resembles science, but it's not science. More often, you get an incomplete and biased snapshot of what truly went on, with details such as drive changing, burn speed or other environmental factors being omitted. It discredits and debunks that myth. Happy burning!

Another non-sexy product to review...... They are shiny discs of silica. They come on a spindle. They smell kind of funny. They hold a bunch of data. They are stacked 100 high - I counted. Actually I didn't count them - that was a lie. They smell kind of funny. Pretty good value - PRIME gets them here in a hurry sans tax. Sorry Texas... May 2008 Edit: OK maybe I have a slight vanity issue here at Amazon... in looking at this product and the reviews (at this edit there are 45 of 'em) how do you really make these types of reviews more appealing... I mean only 2 outta 5 found my review helpful. Jeeeeez - gimme a break! OK maybe if my review sounded more like.....: These are the world's bestest DVD+R discs ever! No coasters! I have illegally duped over 23,000 movies on these discs with NO coasters nor any interest shown by the FBI! These DVD+R's along with a balanced diet helped me lose 25 pounds in only 10 days!!! And NO COASTERS!! Just the other day I was driving home from work when I noticed a nursing home was on fire. Acting quickly I took a whole spindle of the DVD+R's, strung them together with some mint flavored dental floss and fashioned a make-shift net. With the aid of a passing Boy Scout we stretched the DVD+R net across the front of the building and had all of the retirees jump to safety. Even after all that I used the DVD+R's from the rescue net to burn music, data and recipe's with NO COASTERS! Better???? Oh - and the above is complete bovine. I really didn't have the help of a Boy Scout to save all of the people from the retirement home.

The product is very good and the price is outstanding. The only draw back is the shipping damage.(Note:I think Amazon is addressing this problem nicely). When you order these click on the "Frustration Free Shipping" and the problem with the shipping damage is solved. Instead of loosely packing the item,they come in custom ,made cardboard packing inserts that stop problems with in-carton damage. I hope that Amazon will carry this over to all their shipping. There have been comments about some of these being inferior quality that are made in India,HOWEVER all that I have ordered came from Taiwan which are supposed to be of very good quality. All in all you can't go wrong and where I live the prices range from $49 to $79 for these.

Received the initial shipment but had to send it back since whoever packed it did a horrible job. They just threw it in the shipping box and out the door it went. When I received it (delivered by Amazon) the bottom of the DVD container had busted off, allowing DVDs to be all over the inside of the box, loose and scratched. Totally unusable. Anyway - contacted Amazon and got the return paperwork, dropped it off at UPS. The new DVDs are set to be delivered tomorrow. We shall see how THAT goes. The DVDs themselves (I have used them in the past), do exactly as designed - so no complaints there - hence the 5 star rating.

I use verbatim CDRs to copy my CDs for playing in the car as they're the only brand that my Dodge CD player will recognize (other than the originals). I therefore bought a stack of Verbatim DVDs to transfer some of my VHS tapes. So far, the DVDs are no problem. I've only lost one on a burn and that was a software problem. I've recorded some at 16x but I mostly burn at a slower speed just to be sure I get a good transfer. Either way, all the burns have worked. I'm using an hp TS-H653R DVD burner on a Core2 Duo, 4gb ram with XP and Honestech VHS to DVD 3.0 SE software.

In my eyes, burnable DVD media has joined burnable CD media in the group of "not expensive enough to fret about." In the early days, I spent a fair amount of time perusing batch codes and originating factory lists trying to find DVD media that would ensure the lowest failure rate. This was because if you got a failure, it could be a $5 coaster. Now that DVDs have joined the <50¢ club, it's not as big of a deal. In my experience, the quality of modern DVD media has become much more homogeneous than it used to be (at least among the classically trusted brands) while prices have plummeted. Varbatim was suggested to me a few years ago by a friend, and since then, I have put a few hundred single- and dual-layer Verbatim DVDs through various burners (Lite-On, Plextor, and whatever is in my ThinkPad) and have been pleased with their quality. I thought I found a bad batch once, but it ended up being a failing hard drive. This is the second time I've ordered this specific 100-disc spindle (other one wasn't from Amazon) and the first one performed well. Would definitely recommend them.

The Verbatim 95098 media wasn't offered with Amazon Frustration-Free Shipping. Only the 97459 had that option. Reviewers who complained about how this media is packed, they were absolutely right. The disks are shipped like no one cares. There isn't any bubble-wrap, brown paper stuffing, nothing. Just a couple of air-bag strips. For obvious reasons, I would have preferred to order a factory-packed case. So why aren't 100-pks offered this way ? 50-pk spindles can be found as six in a factory-packed case. My order of (4) 100-pk spindles lay sideways in the box, to rattle and bang around until damaged. Glass merchandise would never be shipped this way. Why wouldn't a seller treat 100-pk spindles the same as glass ? Verbatim cares. The plastic cake box has the normal blue/purple retail wrapper that folds over the bottom of the cake box. Over this wrapper, Verbatim places an extremely heavy, clear plastic reinforcement. This additional wrapper covers the lower portion of the cake box, and folds over the bottom too, while extending upward about two inches. The reinforcement adds great strength to the retail packaging. Still, I could see the whitened areas where the reinforcement stressed during several impacts. Just think what the disks went thru. My simutaneous order of (4) 100-pks thru Newegg, came with brown paper stuffing and a stronger box. But the packing was not much better than Amazon. On the outside, the Newegg box read, "May Contain Awesome". Perhaps they meant, "May Contain Damaged". Both orders turned out to be MIT media, and not MII. The current reviews were for Indie disks, and that is actually what I hoped to receive. However, these are MCC 004 disks, and Made-In-Taiwan. Though all (4) 100 packs remained intact, the first three disks in each spindle had wear spots, visible in bright light. I looked 20 to 30 disks further into the spindle, and to the naked eye, no damage was present. Looking closer with a magnifying glass, still no damage. Expect to lose the first three disks in every 100-pk. The separator ring at the center of each of the uppermost disks, won't be able to keep the surfaces apart. The cake box will be in a horizontal position and rattling. Unfortunately, I'm getting a high PI error count with these disks. However, many of them appear to have a low PI failure rate, and the quality score is often very high. Unlike the Indie media, the very last and final firmware written for my dvd-writer, gives the best results. A later dvd-writer with a more recent firmware may burn the Taiwan media beautifully (with some exceptions). The Indie media was quite different. The PI errors dropped from 250,000 to 4000 with the correct firmware and burn control. The correct firmware for the MII media was an old one, but not the final one. With no better firmware to use with the Taiwan media, I could only reduce the PI errors a little (by one-half), and that's all. A high-error count with this media will not cause coasters, and except for the first three disks, there is not much chance of burning one. I suppose these disks are as good as any, except for some of the TY media. My problem is, I'm archiving files, and the media should be burned expertly, with very low errors. A burner that doesn't read well, might scan with high errors, but I have many burners to judge the problem with. There was some burn consistency within a spindle. But, in 25 disks, I did hit a few that kicked the PI failures up to 2500. Also, the burn consistency between each spindle wasn't too good, and that is another reason to purchase these by the case. One spindle may burn with reasonable PI errors and failures, but the next will have such high errors that you will be thinking about changing the dvd-writer's firmware. If your burner and firmware aren't especially compatible with Verbatim DVD+R media, PI errors may jump to over a million. Know what you are purchasing, the kind of shipping/handling to expect, and don't be too disappointed. This is probably as good a media as you are going to get, and these disks are AZO. BTW, the DOM on the MIT media is 2010, and the MII media I have, was manufactured in 2008. I have no reason to knock Verbatim. If not for Verbatim, all (4) 100-pk spindles would have been torn open during shipping, and the disks scattered inside the box. You may not get a very pretty scan with these disks, but many of them will score very high. FYI, Verbatim AZO is/was a very high quality, long-lasting media. 95098 and 97459 (100 pks), are a branded media with a matte-silver finish and four lines for writing. Use an ultra-fine-point Sanford Sharpie on these, and ordinary rubbing alcohol will remove the ink. For your dvd-recorder, use DVD-R or DVD-RW media. When burning a DVD+R disk in a PC, set the burner firmware (or the burning software) to book-type the disk as DVD-ROM. Use a software tool, such as Nero CD-DVD Speed, and check the quality of the burned disk after data verification is completed. Be sure to use any burn control software that may have come with the burner. Or, if laser control is part of a 3rd party CD-DVD writing software, apply that feature to the burn. Many dvd-writers fail at write speeds below 12x, but slower is better, and a write speed of 4x should produce the highest quality score. I should point out, that media has been changing, and the quality of a 12x burn, may now be as good as it gets. Burning at 4x or 8x may no longer help. Find out what versions of firmware are considered best for the dvd-writer in use, and be sure to try those firmwares. I rated this media a 3, because the media was not what I expected, but can most likely be used (with some aggravation). Fast or slow, the shipping rates one star, and not just on Amazon. :( ------------------------------------------------------------ UPDATE: I have now burned about 35 test disks. One spindle has hidden surface damage on every disk. To see the damage, disks must be held under a magnifying glass at various angles (and under dim light), so that the plastic surface is reflecting a shaded area of the room. There are small friction points all over the plastic layer on the writing-side of the disks. No scratches, just hundreds of tiny rub marks on the plastic surface, of each and every disk. The wear is similiar to what might be found on a lightly-used disk after being placed in a dvd-tray, a dozen times. These lightly-damaged disks will burn with good quality scores in an older, but expensive dvd-writer. The disks will fail to complete (or refuse to verify) in a more recent, cheaper dvd-writer (at the writer's minimum burn speed of 12x). Burners and firmware must be matched to the media used, and this rule also applies to Verbatim. If a combination of mis-fortunes; wear marks, the wrong burner/firmware (and/or cheap dvd-writer), then Verbatim DVD+R disks might appear to be as bad as Memorex. This could explain the extremely negative reviews posted by a few individuals. I'm not happy with this particular spindle, but the quality scans (90+) will do for video, and there were no coasters in the 10 or more, test disks of this spindle, that I burned.

I can be certain when I use Verbatim I am going to get an excellent quality recording. I never use any other make, as when one is recording you may only get one chance!

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I just used up my last of the spindle I bought almost 10 years ago on bootable Linux discs and I got scared that I had no more. Sad to say goodbye to the old stuff, Probably the last spindle of discs I'll ever buy. Guess I can throw away the box of floppies that have been sitting in the closet for the past 20 or so years.

Ordered the 100 package so I wouldn't have to buy them for awhile. They come in a durable outside package which will keep them safe from dust and any damage. The last ones I bought a few years ago came in package that was cheap plastic on the outside so you had to watch where you had them so definitely happy with that. Used a few them of already and had no issues. Would buy again if I needed to.