Anyone ever hear of "Savit" brand blank media?
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I had one of these discs from a friend of mine. About 10 years old now. Below is the ATIP info. KDG Mediatech appears to be a European company. European media is kinda rare in the US in general, maybe it was imported by some company when the US dollar was strong, or perhaps its a fake. Quality looks sketchy, you can see the dye bleeding around the hub and splatter along the edges of the disc.
Nero DiscSpeed: Disc Info Basic Information Disc type: : CD-R Manufacturer: : kdg mediatech MID : 97m24s40f Write speeds: : 8 X - 16 X Capacity: : 74:44.72 : 656 MB Extended Information Usage : General Disc Status : Closed Raw Data ATIP 0000 - D0 00 80 00 61 18 28 00 4A 2C 48 00 00 00 80 00 - ....a.(.J,H..... 0010 - 00 80 00 00 00 80 80 00 - ........ http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/atta...9&d=1292025443 |
Doesn't ring a bell off the top of my head, no. Then again, I've seen so much media in the past couple of decades that it's really hard to keep track of the minor players. I'm most familiar with the discs that are still in wallets, on spindles, or in the testing piles -- most of it from the bigger and medium manufacturers.
A cursory look at Google shows it to be KDG Mediatech AG, made in Austria. kdg mediatech (Elbigenalp, Austria, +43 (0) 5634-500; Parc d'Activités, France, +33 (0) 3 29 58 40 70). http://www.kdg-mt.com/ I will say that I'm pretty dubious about smaller manufacturers and unknown media, in general. If it burns like crap, I'm not surprised. If it works well, then that's when it gets interesting -- Infomedia, for example, that pepst was talking about in another thread I was just reading. If the content is important, make another copy on good Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim discs --- and then consider an archival ISO file on a hard drive, too. |
NJRoadfan - thanks for the picture, I haven't seen a picture of this kind of medium before. Is it still fully readable?
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It is a pity that they are so rare. [}:)] |
That and the fact that firmware support seems to be rather lousy. It works well in some models of some drives, but it's just not a reliable disc for the general population, many of which never upgrade their firmware from original stock, or are using cheap OEM burners from the usual suspects.
That's common among small manufacturers, which is why many (as you surely know) resort to faking IDs. The problem there, of course, is that the discs isn't really close enough to the strategy implemented by the ID, so it still doesn't help much. To top it off, most fake ID discs are junk anyway. Such a mess. The thing that alarms me about TY DVD media is jitter and poorer reflectivity (indirectly-measured), as well as infrequent bad burns even with good drives (a problem that really never affects MCC/MKM discs). I don't have such reservations about TY CD media -- it's quite good. Oops..... seems I'm sidetracking this away from the Savit topic. :o |
A boonding quality of TY's 16x DVDRs is often god awful too - comparable to Optodisc's first DVD-Rs or even ultra-cheap (offline bonded) AN30-35 from 2002-03. :(
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