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Memorex HD DVD-R Available - Made in India

Postby aviationwiz on Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:06 pm

In case anyone is interested (not that drives are available yet), Micro Center now has Memorex HD DVD-R media for $22 a pop, and it's made in India.

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Postby dodecahedron on Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:07 pm

this post @ cdreaks beat you to it. cheaper too. :)
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Postby Ian on Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:39 pm

And I beat you both by like three weeks.. :wink:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=22178
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Postby dodecahedron on Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:46 pm

always first :wink:
but the point was about availability.
anyway it wasn't me you beat, i didn't post anything at cdreaks.
HD media available in Israel - LOL
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Postby Ian on Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:26 pm

Yeah, I have yet to see the media in stores but its readily available online. Not that I'd buy anyway as I have yet to get a HD DVD writer.

You gotta wonder how willing people are going to be to pay $20 for a 15GB disc that works at only 1x when you can get a 25GB Blu-ray disc that burns at 2x.
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Postby MonsterMan on Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:43 pm

Something I just noticed:
The Memorex HD DVD's are black.

Gonna be kinda hard to write a lable on those :o
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Postby RJW on Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:11 am

So we have
Memorex -> MBIL
Traxdata -> RITEK
PLATINUM ->CMC

Imation -> ? Probably MBIL as well !
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Postby Justin42 on Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:38 pm

Interesting Memorex is using MBIL. I'd *guess* (and I have no basis to guess this) that of those brands, MBIL is probably the best media at this time. Reminds me of when I used to swear by (instead of swear at) Memorex CD-Rs, back in like 1999-2000; didn't realise at the time they were all made by Taiyo Yuden....

It's like Memorex tries hard for a few years to build up a good brand in media and then burns through the goodwill with cheap crap for the next 10 years. [-X
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Postby [buck] on Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:01 pm

The Taiwanese makers sure are rolling out HDDVD-R quickly. I guess that makes sense though, considering it requires only minor changes to existing lines. Are there any Japanese makers other than MKM who are planning on making HDDVD-Rs?
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