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Reviewed by: vincentproductions on 2010-12-13 14:31:11. Rating:
These discs are manufactured by Ricoh and are crap. Stick with Taiyo Yuden and other proven disc manufacturers.
I trusted the majority of reviews for these discs which show positive results. I don't know who is writing these reviews but obviously they don't use enough of them to run into the failure rate I experienced.
I've had good results with Taiyo Yuden discs on my 11 target DVD duplicator which runs 16x Pioneer drives. Over the years the TY discs seem to work best. I ordered 300 of these Matrix DVD+DL for use as DVD video discs. More than half were returned from customers as incompatible or having errors. That hurt considering the run was 200 DVDs. I ran 400 Taiyo Yuden DVDs with only 1 returned. I ended up using the remaining 100 Matrix DVD+DL for data discs which so far have had around 33-50% burn failures at 4x. Don't waste your money on these.
Reviewed by: un on 2010-12-05 15:21:18. Rating:
well...I was about to put a claim on these because I kept getting coasters (burning at 8x) even with a brand new burner, until I saw someone else's posting about burning slower.
The slowest setting on my burner is 4x and that seemed to work.
Finally!!!!
Reviewed by: Delixer on 2010-03-30 13:41:09. Rating:
I must have gotten a bad batch because I have had a 54% failure rate so far with this media. I have 6 successful burns and 7 failed burns. I still have 13 more discs to go through and it is not looking very promising. Very disappointing, I will be sticking with Sonic media from now on.
Reviewed by: ricoman on 2010-03-15 17:06:31. Rating:
Surprisingly good result with Imgburn, burned at 6x. IDed as MKM Verbatim. I was shocked, hope they get some more in.
Reviewed by: xxcalibur on 2009-11-13 13:36:38. Rating:
all my xbox 360 burns work FLAWLESSLY.
works great....hate the pic on the disc is the only downside.
great for avchd's as well and for everyday burning.
Reviewed by: Mack T on 2009-05-04 11:23:12. Rating:
These DVDs are actually not bad quality. I have yet to have a bad burn with these. They even burn fine in my cheap dvd burner without problems at the 8x speed. In my experience, they DO NOT work for xbox 360 backups. Data files burn just fine even past the 4.7gb mark. If you are backing up 360 games, go verbatim, otherwise these cant be beat for the price.
Reviewed by: GQ on 2008-12-27 20:56:28. Rating:
I love the Matrix brand. It's versatile and has a very high rate of success when burning DVD's. I would have given it 5 of 5. The reason why I am now giving it 3 out of 5 is its new graphic design. The new design takes up so much space that there is very little room to write notes on it. The huge black area is all a total waste of space. Also, the new design makes it impossible to write the title on top of the disk where it's most convenient when you're filing it in a box with other disks. I am so frustrated with the new design that I am now looking for another brand to order. What a pity as the Matrix DVDs work great.
Reviewed by: kgucchi on 2008-11-18 12:11:50. Rating:
Overall, a good deal. I successfully burned this disc with iMac (2.4 G Intel Duo Core OS X 10.5.5) which has Optiarc DVD RW AD-5630A. The software is Toast 8 Titanium. To be safe I burned at 2 X. The burned discs played with a standard DVD player by Toshiba which I bought in 2001, a portable DVD player by Sony which I bought early 2008, and all kinds of Mac or Windows computers around me.
The only problem I had was when I try to burn this disc with older iMac (2.16G Intel Duo Core OS X 10.5.4, white plastic body) which has Matsushita DVD-R UJ-85J. The software was the same Toast 8 Titanium. The disc was burned till 50% and the iMac gave me "Hardware error".
Reviewed by: rperez60 on 2008-10-29 17:54:19. Rating:
Since they changed the graphic on them I seem to have a high fail rate and most won't boot on my 360. I posted previosly on how great they are, not anymore. I have about a 50% no boot rate with these.
Reviewed by: Moonman on 2008-09-11 21:53:21. Rating:
Only one bad burn of the 50 I purchased from S4T, I use a Pioneer DVR-215D along with CloneDVD2 and AnyDVD programs flying at max speed even with these low cost but not cheapo DL's, A darn good buy!
Reviewed by: numberXII on 2008-08-16 10:40:48. Rating:
when burning with imgburn, 100% of my burns end up as coasters. but with nero burning rom, they work fine. i'm using a standard lite-on dvdrw lh-16w. for the price, i feel these just can't be beat.
Reviewed by: Ruth on 2008-06-11 12:19:43. Rating:
I'm about to buy my third batch of these. Absolutely - burn at the lower speed or you'll wind up with skips, pauses, and artifacts. Otherwise, this is a great product at an outstanding price.
Reviewed by: matrixaregood! on 2008-03-30 14:04:49. Rating:
For those of you not satisfied with this product, you need to burn these at 2.4x. I know it says they will do 8x, but if you want coasters, keep burning higher than 2.4x. I have bought 440 of these and I have a 97.9% success rate for these babies. I used to buy verbatim (singapore) that were twice as expensive....not anymore! With Verbatim I never got more than 98% success rate. SO the moral of this story is to burn slow. Slow=Steady=SUCCESS!
Reviewed by: rperez60 on 2008-03-24 20:07:03. Rating:
Thanks for the tip Ghaleon, it worked great. Was able to back up a 360 game that I was having problems with. Works flawlesly on Hitachi 47dj that is very picky about media. Used pioneer 111d with 1.29 firmware and clone cd version 5.3.
Reviewed by: Ghaleon on 2008-03-17 15:26:00. Rating:
Just bought 2 25 packs of them. So far no coasters and I'm about 20 into the first pack. Quick tip to all those getting coasters with these dvd's... DONT DOWNLOAD/EXTRACT while you burn. I have a top notch computer and I was getting a lot of coasters with these until I realized that it was my downloads that were causing the coaster issue. Now that I have stopped downloading while burning everything seems to be going great!
Reviewed by: Disappointed with 8X on 2008-02-06 20:12:22. Rating:
So far 24 out of 25 were coasters from my first 25 batch of 300. The bad sectors were all over the disc. It caused the movie to pause frequently, especially after the halfway point of the movies(probably due to bad 2nd layer). The first 5 of the the second 25 worked flawlessly. Burned at 2.4X (burned first one at 4X) using Pioneer 115D. ImgBurn 2.3.2.0. Purchased over 400 of the Matrix 2.4X DVD + DL before trying out the 8X. Should have stuck with the 2.4X.
Reviewed by: Unhappy with this Product on 2008-02-03 11:32:13. Rating:
I had a greater than 70% failure rate with this product. I have had great success with all other Shop 4 Tech product media I have purchased. This one was a dissappointment. I do not recommend it.
Reviewed by: 4hysteria on 2008-01-25 17:54:57. Rating:
Just received my new Matrix DVD+R Dual Layer media today ( 1-25-2008 ) and I must say I'm extremely pleased. For not being a big named brand type of media on the market...it's well deserved of being top rated. I would recommend this to all my friends and anyone else looking for dual layer media. Great quality,...plus the price itself is just unbeatable. Thanks Shop4Tech, you made my day!
Reviewed by: boku2 on 2007-12-11 22:42:57. Rating:
I have been using shop 4 tech for may of my media supplies. I have never one been disappointed. I only need a few DL DVD+R for a small project. I both 3 at a local store and ended up wasting my money. They were $3.99 a piece plus 8.635 % tax that was damn expensive to not work. So I decided to try these. I figured I'm sure there will be times in the future I may want to back up some large file, or I may be in need of these type of DL+R DVD's again. I popped them in my drive, and they burned so fast, and perfectly. I was amazed. I did the three others with the same results. I am buying some more now. To keep on hand and give as gifts to some of my techie friends. You can't go wrong with these disks. Thanks again for great products.
Reviewed by: Doctor Orlof on 2007-10-05 07:56:39. Rating:
Totally soooprized by this media. I expected junk (I try new brands for a kick), but so far I've burned 10 discs out of 25 without any coasters on four different drives, internal and external (firewire and USB2). Burned fine from Toast and other Mac based DVD programmes (didn't try iDVD -- that programme is just waaaaay too slow for me). Now if MATRIX can release inkjet printable DVD+R DL I will be very happy!
Cheers
Reviewed by: DrSmile on 2007-04-25 23:31:23. Rating:
Will not burn at 8x on NEC 7170A as advertised, only burns at 6x.
Reviewed by: alston on 2007-04-23 17:34:16. Rating:
Works great on pioneer 112d
also reads perfect on xbox 360 hitachi v 78fk drive
great for 360 backups
Reviewed by: lbc_driver on 2006-12-31 11:50:06. Rating:
Work fine in my NEC 3550A, but spit out coasters in my Pioneer DVR-109. Seem to have better quality control than Playo dvd+r dl discs i've bought in the past.
Reviewed by: svhipchick on 2006-12-17 21:22:40. Rating:
I ordered these disks based on user reviews. Was a little leary because of the unknown name but hoped that all the reviewers added up to a quality disk. They worked out great! Highly recommended; I only wish the graphics on the disks weren't so dreadful! :P
Reviewed by: SUCKER_MCs on 2006-12-05 19:00:45. Rating:
these work great on my NEC 3550 and 4570's. So far 21 outta 21, let's hope this holds form for the rest of the batch.
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