The Taiyo white inkjet printables are very smooth, and I just bought their silver printables (will test asap).

The 100-pak for $50 is for their Value Line, not the regular/premium version.

I don't mind paying 50% more for "the good stuff" as I'm more concerned about my customers having problems than saving 12.5 cents per disc.

Never made a coaster or had a customer complaint with these, wish I could say that about Ritek's discs.

I buy my Taiyo Yuden discs at Supermediastore nowadays, they are good to deal with and have a great selection.

Linkyo are perhaps the worst discs on the market, I could have decorated a whole wall with the ones that failed in multiple modern burners.

The Taiyos I just bought from Meritline were the premium versions. Definitely do NOT get their "value line."

Thanks guys!

The place I was going to order from has the premium ones on sale for $3 or so less than supermediastore.

I've used both Supermedia Store and Meritline, recently more Meritline. Both delivered as intended/expected.

I'm not seeing a DVD+R thermal printable. Am I missing something? Darryl

I looked through the Taiyo Yuden DVDs at Meritline and Supermediastore. Am I correct to assume the only DVDs that are premium grade are only those explicitly called premium? There are a many Taiyo with no grade specified.

Ed

Don't get the 16X media (TYG03). Get the 8X media (TYG02). It is much more reliable.

John

Don't get the 16X media (TYG03). Get the 8X media (TYG02). It is much more reliable.

I second that.

I got 200 TY white surface 8x -Rs this week not knowing there was a "value line" and "premium line". The packaging has a "value line" label. DVD Info reports them as TY02.

What problems have you had with the value line? I'm thinking of returning them.

Thanks
Mark

Johnmeyer-

How did you know you were ordering the premium Taiyos from Meritline? I can't find any differentiation on their website. This would help me greatly, as they will apparently ship to my APO address, which the other site (supermedia...) will not.

Thanks,
Brian

Pathlight, the only problems I've had with valueline, and I'm not sure it's a problem exclusively with the valueline media as yet, was when burning at low speeds.

Disks burned by my VHS to DVD recorders show a very high error rate, and generally get a quality rating of 40% from Nero DVD test. If I copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD and then reburn using the same media with CopyToDVD using a different DVD burner at 8X, the quality rating is 93%.

Clearly there's a lot of different variables here, the valueline media being only one of them. I'll know more in a few days if the media is part of the problem with low burn speeds when my new order arrives.

The one thing that leads me to suspect the valueline as a factor is that returns from my VHS to DVD transfer machines historically have been very low, but I've recently been seeing a higher rate of returns.

--Scott

How did you know you were ordering the premium Taiyos from Meritline? I can't find any differentiation on their website. This would help me greatly, as they will apparently ship to my APO address, which the other site (supermedia...) will not.

Go to the Taiyo-Yuden page at Meritline:

Taiyo Yuden DVD-R at Meritline

Then, search for "valueline". You'll find three listings on that page for valueline. My assumption (perhaps incorrect) is that those not listed as valueline are premium.

Thanks for the tip, John. I just ordered a spindle to try out.

I had been using the GQ disks from Frys for years and I only had two returned as unplayable. (Three if you cound the customer who only had a CD player). But that's an inconvenient source.

Since so many people praised Riteks, I bought a couple of spindles and in my first production that was shipped, a full 10% came back as unplayable. Not at all acceptable.

Lets hope the Taiyo are better.

Steve M.