AmazonBasics 8.5GB 8x DVD+R DL

5 comments

1. 

   W. Bittner on December 23, 2009 at 9:44 pm

   Like everyone else, I figured I would try these. I have not tried backing up files yet, but trying to backup
   
   360 discs and I think I am at disk 8 now that gave me a burn error. None successful yet… SO that’s a new record
   
   for me, something I have never encountered with Double Layer media. I have tried many different programs, different
   
   speed combination’s, ect. They all fail around 43-47%, all with the same message about “servo error” blah blah.

   Memo’s would fail once or twice in a blue moon, verb’s, never, this every disk so far. I like the other reviews,
   
   obviously paid review writers. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I will definitely not be buying these again.

   Like someone told me before I ordered these, stick with what you know works, why didn’t I listen?

2. 

   Ivy Reisner on December 23, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   Disks are disks at this point. These work very well. I haven’t had any problems. There are only three reasons you would pick these over any other disk.

   First–price, or I should say value. These are less expensive than most +R DL spindles. That’s going to be the deciding factor for most users, once quality is assured (and the quality on these disks is excellent) and that’s the primary reason I recommend them.

   Second–coolness factor, for those who like the Amazon logo on their blank DVDs.

   Third–packaging. This is where I ding them a star. You get a normal spindle wrapped like every other spindle packed in a box where it’s held well in place marked “ready to ship”. Now if they’d used the “ready to ship” box for shipping, they’d get 5 stars. Instead, they packed the “ready to ship” box, with yet more packing material, in a standard shipping box. So you spend more time fighting the time and filling your wastebasket than in a non-frustration free product..

3. 

   Nix Cadavre on December 24, 2009 at 1:03 am

   First, as I had two spindles, you may see this review duplicated. Unfortunately, I can’t say that one spindle of Amazon Basics DVD media is any better or worse than the other, so I’m reprinting my other review here with minor tweaks for this item. Everything still stands as printed below, and the review is still original.

   That being said, Amazon’s blank media works as advertised… At least, it worked fine in my ASUS laptop’s optical drive. Burns were fine, and so far I haven’t made a “coaster” out of these discs. For the price, you get some decent blank media with a seemingly solid commitment to environmental concerns. Of course, your mileage may vary, depending on what brand of optical drive you have.

   However, as Amazon considers the “Frustration Free” packaging a feature of this item, I have to comment on it. Frankly, while I did like the packaging on the discs themselves– a standard spindle with minimal plastic wrap– and the boxes the spindles were placed in (a compact box with a “nest” for the spindle), I was disappointed that Amazon contradicted their own advertising blurb:

   “Products with Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box, saving on resources and reducing waste.”

   Unfortunately, this was not the case. What I got was a spindle of DVDs inside a small, sealed shipping box that was itself packaged inside a seemingly-unnecessary gigantic shipping box filled with plastic packing material. Perhaps there was a special circumstance with my shipment, but as I got two spindles and both arrived this way, I have to assume that this was the norm.

   Seriously. One little box inside a box three times its size, along with a bunch of plastic. If Amazon is going to advertise this “Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging” and tout the environmental friendliness, then they need to stick to their ideals and not send shipping boxes inside of shipping boxes.

   The product itself, along with the small shipping box and spindle packaging, get five stars from me… But because they advertised not needing an additional shipping box, yet sent one anyway, I’m docking them one star.

   And note that I would not normally review packaging and shipping for an item, but as I said above: They list it as a feature in the product description, which means it’s open for review.

   If subsequent comments and reviews make it clear that Amazon is making good on the “no unnecessary extra packing material” thing, then I’ll revise this review. I like the product a lot; I just think they dropped the ball with their packaging promises and need to have a talk with the people in the warehouse about excessive packaging.

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   Super Critique on December 24, 2009 at 1:27 am

   This is very thin light Shinny disc (you can even use it as a personal mirror), not sure why Amazon would want to put their prestigious brand-name label for this crappy media. 3 Errors occurred out of 5 this Amazon DVD+R DL, statistically speaking, it is an outlier of the mean average for any brand with this much errors; my best brand, Memorex, failed about 2 out 25 in the norm bell-shaped. Not wonder it is cheap for DL of 50 discs.

5. 

   Nvard Melikyan on December 24, 2009 at 3:11 am

   This is basically the exact same as every other dvd DL. it just depends on your driver and if you updated the firmware…

   they are ALLLL the same just have different labels on them.

   anyways being compared to verbatim (which i will never buy again)
   
   a 20 pack for 40 dollars! $2 per disc

   Amazon brand
   
   50 PACK! for 30 dollars!! you pay less AND get more? $1.33 per disc

   VERY VERY VERY CHEAP! and well worth it

   got the basic shipping didnt have to pay shipping charges (which made this deal even better)