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DVD Minus (16X Speed) 50 spindle | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £14.67
New (6) from £10.70
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3981
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5 x 3.5
MPN: 50DMR47BSP
Model: 50DMR47BSP
EAN: 4905524318326
ASIN: B000EDI2MQ
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 3 to 4 weeks
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| Features:
| • | • Sony Recordable DVDs• Features Sony AccuCORE technology• Wide playback compatibility• Fast random access for time shift recording• Superior writing stability• Recording speed: 16x• Capacity: 4.7 GB• |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Very fragile DVDs!!! BEWARE!!!! August 7, 2008
I have used many different brands of DVD-Rs over the years and none have been as flimsy as these! Basically, the slightest tiny scuff can wreck the whole thing. To give you an idea, the disks come on a spindle, resting one on top of the other. If you store them that way, the fact that they rotate on the spindle can mean that the data side of one disk can become sufficiently scratched - merely by rubbing against the next disk's embossed writing on the title side - that it means you lose data. I think they must use some very cheap plastic coating on the back of these things. By contrast, I've had no other disks give these problems. For example, I've put Emtec disks through a lot worse (took them on holiday to New Zealand on a spool) and they were fine. Even when scratched a lot worse than the Sony ones. Stay away. Get a different brand.
 So Slow June 6, 2008
I do not usually have a problem with burning DVDs with my 12x drive and Roxio software nor do I see many coasters but these are so slow maximum 6x and speed up and down and had a coaster just four discs into my large backup project. I have rebooted twice but it's not a locked memory problem or anything on my computer, it's poor discs.
I will stick with Verbatim and had also been using TDK which were great until they went blue and I could not read the writing!
 never miss May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only use sony dvds for one simple reason, they never let you down, and there are no reading issues with any drives once there full
Recommended
18 dud disks out of 30... January 31, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Using my (Sony) DVD writer drive, I've been attempting to burn backup DVDs using these disks. Out of the 30 disks tried so far, 18 have completely failed to burn. 20 remain on the spindle, and I'm not very tempted to continue trying to use them.
Burning was tried at 4x (the speed of the drive) and, in some cases, I knocked the speed setting down to 2x, so it's not a speed issue. And it's not a problem with the drive itself either, since burning other brands of DVDs, including cheap "WorthIt" ones from Woolworth's which I've just bought to complete this backing up process, works absolutely fine.
These are possibly the worst DVD-Rs I've come across: A 60% failure rate is absolutely unacceptable - and I'd advise anybody to steer clear.
140 Used -- Only 1 partial faiure January 2, 2008
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
I record live TV to HDD, edit, then copy at 16x to these Sony DVD-R. In 3 x 50-spindles, I have had only 1 imperfect ; the copy is playable, but it can't be Finalized.
Check Kikatek too for prices. They too are v reliable supplier ; sometimes cheaper, sometimes not.
A caution to the fumblers like me : don't blame failures & problems on the discs until you are really certain it's not your DVR-recorder that is junk. I bought a Sony DVD-player, a Philips DVD/VHS recorder, then a Sony DVD/80GbHDD recorder. The Philips is junk : it often can't read discs it has itself recorded, yet the Sony recorder CAN read these Philips-recorded DVDs ! It's not just Philips : the Sony player freezes & sometimes rejects the DVDs recorded on the Sony recorder !
On the same DVD, don't mix recordings done on 1 recorder with new ones done on another.
I have concluded that there is no 100% reliable product-supplier, at any rate not in this mid-range market. If you check the Customer Reviews on DVDs and on recorders & players, you always find a bunch of happy customers, plus 1 or 2 saying that it's junk.
So my advice is : stick throughout to Sony, & if you have trouble, whack the DVDs AND the recorder in to the nearest Sony Regional Service ctr under warranty -- they're pretty helpful. Don't mix suppliers : you get better service if all the kit is from the same manufacturer.
If you like tearing your hair, buy from cheap manufacturers. Or buy Philips.
None of this is Amazon's DIRECT fault. BUT Amazon is big enough to kick these manufacturers. They obviously are ALL knowingly shipping product where 1 in a few has faults/bugs ; then they rely on the customer & service agent to sort it out. I guess that dumping this nuisance on the customer is cheaper than stricter quality control. The vast sales of pre-recorded DVDs show that DVDs CAN be burnt reliably ; I guess manufacturers cut quality to the bone in the mass market for "amateur" customers. Come on, Amazon, git ya boots on. Refuse to ship the products that are drawing more than a very few complaints. I'd prefer to pay GBP 250 for a recorder & discs that work properly than GBP 200 for one that doesn't -- especially a combination that burns discs that can't be read next month.
I have VHS recorded in 1985 that still work. My worry is whether ANY of these DVDs will be playable in 5 or 10 yrs time (:-{) Maybe we should all have stuck to VHS ...
RJ Stansfield
West London
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