Which blank BD-R and BD-RE are best to use?
 

Do you have an article or referral regarding bd-r and bd-re. Esp. Mitsubishi kagaku, maxell, sony, and/or panasonic. These are recommended in the lg be12 owners manual.

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If it were me, for my projects, or for client projects, I'd buy and use these:

• Verbatim 97457 25 GB 6x Blu-ray Single Layer Recordable Disc BD-R, 25-Disc Spindle, or
• Verbatim 97339 DataLifePlus 25 GB 6x Blu-ray Single-Layer Recordable White Inkjet, Hub Printable Disc BD-R - 50 Disc Spindle

Those are Verbatim-branded Mitsubishi-manufactured media.

That's about $1.25 per blank disc. Not bad at all. :2cents:

To add some more details....

Our article for Blank Blu-ray discs has been delayed several times now, but will published sometime between November and January, along with a lot of other blank media guides (CD-R/W, VHS/S-VHS historical data). In the meantime, our advice has always been to closely mirror the blank DVD guide, as it's almost identical. Quality optical disc manufacturers tend to reliably produce good discs, while known shoddy manufacturers continue to produce unreliable media.

Mitsubishi-Kagaku and Panasonic are indeed among the best.
- Mitsubishi (Verbatim) = MKM media codes
- Panasonic (Matsushita) = MEI media codes

If you want high quality blank BD-R, buy Verbatim.

However, it's also worth noting that Ritek BD-R ("RITEK BR2" media ID) performs well. In recent years, Ritek has turned itself around in terms of media quality. Their DVD media is now using Fuji oxonol dyes, which is quite good. I don't recall all of the specs on the BD-R dyes, but they're not using sewer slime like some of the other low-cost discs (CMC-made PHILIPS, for example). I've gone through several spindles of Memorex-branded RITEKBR2 BD-R 25GB 4x media that has burned surprisingly well, and passed all testing.

Have the Verbatim BD-R's gone out of production recently? Most retailers that had them anywhere under $100 are completely sold out and many who still have them are now charging 2-3x the normal price.

I've not noticed anything unusual. :unsure:

Meritline, Supermediastore, and Amazon all appear to have discs in stock, and for the average $1.25/disc pricing. I see everything from 10-packs to 50-packs, inkjet or branded, LTH and normal HTL, 25GB and 50GB. The 50GB are about triple the price of 25GB. Maybe you were just looking at the 50GB discs instead of the 25GB discs?

Its specifically the 25GB inkjet printables that were expensive. The branded ones were much lower. The last time I looked I saw several merchants selling the 50-pack of 25GB discs for over $100, but now Amazon appears to be the only one, they are the highest price I've seen.
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-97339...verbatim+97339

Walmart.com the other day had a listing but said it was sold out. Just now I was unable to even find the listing. The other day buy.com had said they were sold out as well, but right now theyre showing in stock for $75.

Its really getting ridiculous lately. The Verbatim 97339's are getting really difficult to find and the few places I have found them have prices listed in excess of $100 for a 50 pack. Most places are completely sold out and all say they have no idea if they will ever get any more..I found one place that said they had them but when I ordered them they emailed me and said whoops we don't have those anymore and refunded me. Meritline is sold out, Buy.com is sold out, Supermediastore is sold out. Amazon is the only sure bet and they're currently $104 there.
If you know anywhere that has them in stock at $80 or less, please let me know!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B004477BQQ
These seem to be the best buy that they have in stock, 50 for 75$

Those are the good ones alright, the price goes up and down like gasoline though. A couple months ago it was $110, last month it was $60, a couple weeks ago $70, now it's $75. I'm guessing the merchant, antonline, is programming the price to fluctuate based on their stock on hand.

So are the Datalife Plus any good? I just upgraded to be able to burn Blu-Ray's, and I know that with DVD's the Verbatim DataLife Plus label is one to stay away from, but for Blu-ray those seem to be the only inkjet printable BR's.

Also, what are the some of the good BD RW's?

The BD-R mentioned above are the best, Ive burned a few hundred and I havent had any failed burns yet. I have yet to burn any BD-RE.

DataLife Plus have been proven the best for DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-DL, and BD-R, so I'm sure if you find them in BD-RE they're probably better than what anyone else has..Verbatim just uses better materials for these.

DataLife Plus should be Mitsubishi-manufactured (MCC) media. So it's NOT the bad one.
The same is true of BD-R.

I definitely vouch for those BD-Rs, and for DataLifePlus in general. I won't buy anything else anymore, regardless of cost.

Current DataLifePlus Media IDs:


DVD+R SKU 94812, Made in Taiwan
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:MCC-003-000]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [DVD+R]
Manufacturer Name : [Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.]
Manufacturer ID : [MCC]
Media Type ID : [003]
Product Revision : [Not Specified]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,295,104 Sectors = 4.70 GB (4.38 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [1x-2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x]
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DVD+DL SKU 96862, Made in Singapore
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R-DL:MKM-003-000]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R DL] - [DVD+R DL]
Manufacturer Name : [Mitsubishi Kagaku Media]
Manufacturer ID : [MKM]
Media Type ID : [003]
Product Revision : [Not Specified]
Blank Disc Capacity : [4,173,824 Sectors = 8.55 GB (7.96 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [2.4x , 3.3x-8x]
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BD+R SKU 97339, Made In Taiwan
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Unique Disc Identifier : [BD-R-SL:VERBAT-IMe-000]
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Disc Type : [BD-R SL : Class 0 - Version 1]
Manufacturer Name : [Mitsubishi Kagaku Media]
Manufacturer ID : [VERBAT]
Media Type ID : [IMe]
Product Revision : [000]
Stamper Date : [March 2010]
Layer Info : [1 Layer (L0) : 25.03 GB (23.31 GiB) Per Layer]
Blank Disc Capacity : [12,219,392 Sectors = 25.03 GB (23.31 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [1x , 2x , 4x , 6x]
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