Fs Benq 200 Dvd+r $59 Restocked!

36 now....

Are these DVD's any good.

Where would they be in a 5 star scale (1-poor 5- excellent)

Originally Posted by Drift

Are these DVD's any good.

Where would they be in a 5 star scale (1-poor 5- excellent)

A lot could depend on the writing strategy of your burner. My Benq burns these discs at 8x with very high quality (Benq burners in general are excellent for burning +r discs). Other burners may prove to be more problematic. I'd probably rate them as 3 for indeterminate.

Videohelp.com has some comments on this media. But still, for 30 cents a disc it's hard to go wrong.

Originally Posted by temo

A lot could depend on the writing strategy of your burner. My Benq burns these discs at 8x with very high quality (Benq burners in general are excellent for burning +r discs). Other burners may prove to be more problematic. I'd probably rate them as 3 for indeterminate.

Videohelp.com has some comments on this media. But still, for 30 cents a disc it's hard to go wrong.

Ditto. For 30 cents each, it's a steal. My BenQ burner burns 4X + media at 8x...no problems whatsoever!

It is sold out again. Too bad i miss it.

Originally Posted by Gdog

Ditto. For 30 cents each, it's a steal. My BenQ burner burns 4X + media at 8x...no problems whatsoever!

Is the media code manufacturer for these DAXON? I ordered the -R's versus the +R's hoping to get SONY media.

Also, someone in the FS Boxing Day thread said that in-store, FS was selling 8x +R/-R BenQ 200 packs (instead of the 4x) for the $59 price. Has anyone confirmed if they're still doing that? Anyone happen to have media codes for the 8x variants that FS is selling? Thanks.

I posted this in the Mitsumi thread as well. Bought 200 pack BenQ for $59.99 in-store. It is the 8X DVD-R BenQ's but my BenQ 822A burner with the newest firmware only recognizes it as follows :

Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID SONY08D1
Format Capacity Not Formatted
Free Blocks 412352512
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed Unknown
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 0C
2x Write Strategy field 1 12 A8 88 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 16
4x Write Strategy field 1 0A 0E 09 04
4x Write Strategy field 2 98 06 0C 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 08
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 16
4x Write Strategy field 4 18 97 88 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 B7 9B B8 83 00 30
4x Write Strategy field 6 0F FF D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

i bought 200 benq dvd-r 8x for the 60 bux and it works fine with my new benq dw1620 (at 8x, havent tried higher or lower speeds)...can somebody please give a detailed explanation on the difference between +r and -r?!?!?!? i've even read the thing at videohelp.com and it still seems very half-assed and i've heard tons of differnet stories... (ps2s read -r media, +r is better for benq burners, etc etc)

Originally Posted by gyozaman

I posted this in the Mitsumi thread as well. Bought 200 pack BenQ for $59.99 in-store. It is the 8X DVD-R BenQ's but my BenQ 822A burner with the newest firmware only recognizes it as follows :

Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID SONY08D1
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Thanks for the media code - I sure hope FS is shipping the 8x -R media for their Boxing Day orders. $0.30/disc for Sony 8x media is a nice deal (not as nice as the BestBuy Fujifilm $0.40/disc Taiyo Yuden MIJ's but still good).

I could not find any of the 8x 200 packs in T.O. (went to 5 stores) All the 200 packs were 4x. However all the stores had 8x 100 packs for 34.99

Also, despite what some are saying, this media is not bad at all.

I bought the BenQ 8X DVD-R from FutureShop around 3:00pm today and the Media code/Manufacturer ID is "SONY08D1". There were 4 of these boxes in the Brampton location (HWY 410 & Bovaird) going for $59.99 before taxes.

Here's a picture of the box.

I have already burned at 8x using my LG 4120B 12X burner and it was a success
For more info on the media codes, Click Here

1000 packs of -r in stock as of 11:00pm EST.

1000 now

The only BenQ 200 packs I see on the website are 4X. Are there suppose to be 8X ones?

honestly i think most people who say benq are crap havent even personally used it. everyone on this forum makes such a big deal about TY TY TY TY TY. sure TY good but ive tried prodisc, optodisc, ricoh and they all work great too. all of them play in all my dvd players and my ps2. havent had any coasters with any of them either unless i accidentally open a program while burning. o_0