Blank DVD: Sony, Philips, Memorex or others ?

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<div class="IPBDescription">Brand with least amount of bad DVDs</div>I need to resuply my blank DVDs and I was wondering, out of a 100 blank DVD pack, which brand has the lease amount of failures/bad-DVDs ?

Memorex
Sony
Philips
other brand


The first 3 are the ones I can get through <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=2&name=Media-CD-DVD-Tape" target="_blank">www.tigerdirect.ca</a> and for half the price of what I can find in stores around here.

Tykjen

Verbatim. Used that brand for a decade now.

locallyunscene

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Memorex
Sony
Philips
other brand
The first 3 are the ones I can get through <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=2&name=Media-CD-DVD-Tape" target="_blank">www.tigerdirect.ca</a> and for half the price of what I can find in stores around here.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you can get them for half price, then you only need ~ half of the DvD's to not fail to be cost effective. Break even point: failure of (1/2 of purchased DVDs + normal failure rate) . Any fewer failures than that and you've saved money. Time is another consideration of course.

SnappyCrunch

I've been buying Philips recently, and they seem to do well. Too soon to tell about longevity.

I stay away from Memorex because I had a batch of CD-Rs at one point where after about a year the metal would start flaking off of the back of the CDs. I don't think they make them that way anymore, but there are other makes to choose from, so why go back?