CDFreaks Most Popular DVD Mediacodes

As nominated by you guys, here is the poll for the most popular mediacode.

A few have been removed due to lack of availability, and one or two added.

The choices are assuming the media is legit and best grade.

Cast your votes!

Very late edit: To avoid any further confusion, this poll is multiple choice

The previous polls can be found here:

Poll: Which DVD-R media is best for long-term storage? [2006-2007]

Poll: Which DVD+R media is best for long-term storage? [2006-2007]

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Last edited by Arachne; 21-06-2008 at 16:18. Reason: Re-iterated the multiple choice thing.

Aaah, I prefer that! I was about to post about the lack of this important precision... Same comments as above

C'mon people!

Sorry. I'm multitasking.

Might be something wrong with the percentages....

I thought you didn't like my post from the other one you started

I need to get busy on these FTI TTH02's and see how they burn I've been sick lately and no desire to try them out.......

Yes, that is very odd. I'll have to check that with Admins.

Edit: just checked with Drage, the percentages are fine. Mind you, percentages aren't my thing, so I wouldn't know if they were wrong LOL.

Percentages are correct.

Percentage = (number of votes for a choice) / (number of voters) x 100%

Dividing by number of votes (instead of voters) would be incorrect and strongly misleading for a multiple-select poll.

I hope you understood that the "Cm'on people" part was not directed at you?

Maybe if the question was: "What ARE your favorites mediacodeS", this percentage thing would get less confusing..? (and it would make the multi-options feature more self-explanatory..?) My two cents..

Yes

Poll edited

Me glad Glad to be of some help

Arachne, which did you vote for? MCC 004 or the TY's? I've only had experiences with a couple of brands of blank DVD's so I haven't voted yet.

MCC004, and quite a few others, including YUDEN000 T02 and TYG03

I voted for Yuden000 T02 and TY G02.
A couple of years ago my choice would have
been MCC 003, but their quality started
getting unreliable from batch to batch.

I am the first who voted "Other" and I have to say that this other is PRINCO (Princo 4x). This media you can find it everywhere here. As I said before due to the lack of TY or Vebatim, I have tried other different media being this media the most popular (maybe for other guys, also this could be true). So I have to say : Where is PRINCO mediacode?
EDIT: Just to add this media has been improved, the old days of being the worst media are over, in fact they are pretty good now; compatible with most of my burners.

Okay, I missed the multiple choice part (see Francksoy's comment above)

It wouldn't hurt to clarify then that the percentages represent the % of individuals who have voted for that mediatype.

Hi
MCC 004 (MIT)
YUDEN000 T03 (MIJ)

Exactly
http://dvd-r.jpn.org/test2/qcheckfor...me=SuperX_4x50
http://dvd-r.jpn.org/test2/qcheckfor...me=SuperX_DS8x

The PRINCO media code was nominated but excluded from the poll because it's old 1-4x rated media and we'd rather have some modern and more widely available media in the poll.

Glad to hear that it's working well for you.

PRINCO8X02 was never nominated for the poll during the 2½ weeks the nomination was open, so you can blame yourself for not nominating this media code.

no TYG01 or T01

Hehe awww

Re: Princo - I never actually tried any, haven't even seen it here

Oh, I see. Yes in fact this media can be slow (up to 4x) but I thought that it could be in the poll because of the wide availability of this media.

Is this thread also the replacement thread for media longevity discussions, since the old "Which DVD+R / DVD-R media is best for long-term storage?" threads have both been closed an refer to this thread?

Or will there be a separate new thread for that as well?

I'm mainly interested in the current views on media longevity, especially now MCC 004 seems to be the media of choice nowadays and even Optodisc media seems to become popular amongst members here.

There's only this poll for favourite media codes and another poll for favourite brands.

Polls tend to be popularity contest anyway, so even though the previous polls were about media for long term use, I think people voted for the media they liked the best then, and they will vote for the media they like best now in the current polls.

I totally agree. Polls for "best longevity" will mainly show only favorite media, not media actually tested for longevity, even less since very few members actually test for stability.

I see things in reverse actually, even in my everyday use of media: it's easier to pinpoint inherently unstable media and name it, than declare something as stable, because even the best media can become unstable under specific conditions (lousy burn, lousy storing, high humidity, lousy handling....).

@schweino :
So far, I found to be unstable or suspect in my own collection of well burnt and carefully stored media:
TDK003 - made in Luxembourg (slow degradation, all)
TTH02 - made in Luxembourg (slow degradation, some)
RITEKG05 (very fast degradation, all)
RITEKG04 (fast degradation, most)
TYG02 (slow degradation, 3 discs out of 200)
MBIPG101 R04 (all under the RICOH brand, none under the IMATION brand)
TDKG0200 - made in Taiwan (only overspeeded discs degrade)

All the rest I've used gives no sign of degradation. There are too many brands and MIDs to be cited here. *LOL*

A notable exception: ALL discs (including some of the best -R around) written in a JVC DR-M10 standalone recorder are degrading. Fast. But they were very lousy burns to start with, which backs up my previous explanation about lousy burns probably being more prone to degradation than good burns.