DIGISTOR 25GB 6X Blu-ray Disc Recordable BD-R Blank Media, White Inkjet Printable Surface (25 pack)

I purchased another brand (Verbatim) and after about 4 of them had burn failures I decided to look into why and also to find other discs. I found out that the Verbatims were LTH type (low to high) which is some kind of dye type. Unfortunately, most recorders and players can't use this type disc and you need firmware upgrades for them to work. Well I had everything up to date and they kept failing. So, the Digistor's after doing a lot of reading were reviewed well so I thought i'd try them. The color of the dye is a grey blue unlike the Verbatims that were gold. I don't care what color they are as long as they work. Right out of the spindle, the Digistor's worked flawlessly! And you can even print right on the disc if you have a disc printer.

Pros:

Works with every burner and player

Inkjet printable surface

6x speed

No burn fails

Cons:

More expensive than other brands but well worth it.

I'll be buying more of these when I get low. I hope they keep making them!

I recently moved up to Blu-Ray video for all projects that I shot worldwide. The master files were created with Final Cut and in the past my output was in standard DVD.udf. I intend to convert my whole video library to the Blu-Ray format. The Digistor disks gave me excellent quality on playback.

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Honestly this is my first experience with Blu Ray disks and burners. I ordered an LG WH14NS40 and these disks. my first try was a perfect one. I used Nero 11 to burn a blu ray out of my personal HD recorded videos. The burn process was simple and without any trouble. I also asked to check the disk after burning using secure disk check which resulted in a perfect and desirable report.

The write speed was 12X and the disk was played on this burner and another blu ray player set without any lag or any other possible problem.

I wish it also had light scribe but anyway I personally recommend this to everyone.

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Although I'm glad to see that others had successes with these discs, so far I have had nothing but bad luck. I have attempted to use this media with two separate writers one internal, one external, both LG with the latest firmware and I have yet to have a successful burn.

Most of the incidents return with a write error at about the 2/3 point when writing a 23 GB ISO image using different BD writer programs. The one incident that was reported as a successful burn came up as "incompatible media" when I inserted it into my Panasonic set-top player. Meanwhile, the same ISO image when burned to Verbatim (non-LTH type) and Memorex discs writes and plays back without a hitch no errors or compatibility issues.

I'll hold onto them and purchase a non-LG drive to see how they behave. (I can always use a spare drive anyway.) It's certainly possible that these particular LG drives simply don't like this media. DVD writers still have that problem, so I'm not surprised that it happens with Blu-ray. But as it stands right now these discs have a 100% failure rate with me.

FOLLOW-UP

I bought a Samsung external BD burner and got better results with these discs, but I still ended up with some coasters that failed verification and one or two that failed on burning. So, it's pretty clear that this is an issue of needing to know exactly what drives are compatible with this media. Unfortunately, I still have that problem with DVD media as well. For example, Sony media consistently gives me problems but Memorex and (believe it or not) Staples brands DVD give me no problems at all. You would think that just about *any* DVD media would be reliable at this point, but apparently not; so it's reasonable to expect compatibility problems on Blu-ray which is obviously a much newer technology. I'm changing this to a 3-star review because although a newer burner did help, it did not solve the problem. Be careful about compatibility when buying this media.

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I have the LG GGW-H20L and was having trouble with these discs: they wouldn't burn, not even coasters. They just seemed not to be compatible. I updated the drive to the latest firmware and still the discs are unusable. Because of this I have to rate this product 1-star.

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