dbminter

For the audio, you've got a freebie installed on your Windows PC in the form of Windows Media Player. Another freebie which has a wide variety of functions is Apple's iTunes. I'd use the former still if Microsoft hadn't screwed up Windows 10 so much with a massively stupid bug they refuse to address that only manifests itself in extremely unlikely scenarios but ones I encountered that prevent me from even using the software.

I'd build my own rig if my big ass hands were up to working in such tiny spaces. Even tower models aren't as spacious as I need for working around inside of. One of the drawbacks of being 6 foot 6 and a half. You have these massive hands. I only got a Dell because the only thing I could find in town besides HP, and I know from experience never to buy an HP product, was Dell. That was 2011, and ever since then, I've just stuck with Dells. Granted, each one has been "worse" than the last. Still, there's worse and then there's downright unacceptable. e.g. HP.

Wow, that new Dell XPS 8930 I got last year is now reduced by $400!

Got my DVD+R DL's. They are the quality DataLife Plus stuff from Mitsubishi! At least according to the MID. MID: MKM-003-00 Which can always be faked, of course.

That's good to know about CMC buying up Taiyo Yuden. I hadn't heard any stories, positive or negative, about TY quality since the buyout by JVC/CMC.

I've got 3 packages scheduled for delivery today. Here's HOPING the USPS delivers them all to the RIGHT house! Two of them are imported items, so if they get delivered to the wrong house, it will be a real pisser!

My DVD+R DL's are already out for delivery today. So, I should know some time later today.

I posted the change log in my 2nd post before this one. Not much was changed. Just a new error reporting tool and something about subtitles not displaying correctly.

I wouldn't bet my ass. If I wagered it and lost, I'd no longer be able to say CMC

Well, VSO DID release a new version of ConvertXToDVD... but it was a beta version! 7.0.0.67. 7.0.0.67 Released 2019-10-02 Upgrade bug reporting tools ============================================== 0013678: [Bug] Editable subtitles + Button Overlays => colours change after conversion 0013705: [Suggestion] Even if the project has been saved - it asks again when closing the software 0013715: [Bug] All VSO products not opening for no obvious reason 0013721: [Feature Request] VSO Reporting Tool is not user-friendly. Still, it does show some progress being made on the software. I guess the next gold release won't be until the software goes full blown 64 bit.

What would really suck is to get a mixture. Some cake stacks are the good MCC/MKM stuff and some are the CMC

I have some of the branded ones I use for temporary backups. I believe my order for the DataLife Plus discs came out to $56 before tax.

Amazon.com has already shipped the order I placed today for the Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD+R DL. We'll see what arrives when it does.

There MIGHT be a new release version of ConvertXToDVD "tomorrow." From a post on their support forum: " Jacques is working on the last 32bits version (to have clean versions before jumping to the big work like Coral advice rightfully said once :p) We are 99.99% sure we will release them tomorrow (maybe today but Jacques want the new reporting tool to be perfect) After that, we jump on the huge-amount-of-work 64bits versions. 8) " So, it looks like they will be releasing one last 32 bit version before working exclusively on the 64 bit version. That 64 bit version will probably be the next major release after that.

About inkjet printers. Are they also regular paper printers or just dedicated units for printing CD labels?

Just ordered a cake stack of 50 Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet DVD+R DL's. I'll see what I get. Probably some left over stock of the good MKM stuff.

Each disc has a UDF and ISO9660 label. The limited descriptor label Windows/File Explorer sometimes returns and the longer 128 character one that it sometimes returns. Then, the disc has a folder in the root directory that has some kind of brief description of the contents. And then there may be sub folders with further descriptions.

My discs go in Case Logic carriers. The slots have a Post It on them that tells what each disc in the row of 2 is. Plus, the discs themselves have descriptive labels and directory structures that tell what is on each disc in case one gets filed in the wrong place.

I use the inkjet printable surface discs in case I ever get such a printer, I can print labels to them. If necessary, I can write to them with a CD marker. Or apply stickers, but it's not recommended because even applying stickers to branded discs can cause them to spin unevenly in a drive. Last I checked a decade ago, Ritek made Sony's DVD-R.

My experience has been AZO discs are good. They have the MCC DID on them, which means Mitsubishi supposedly made them. However, of course, DID's can be whatever the manufacturer wants to make of them. I actually never noticed before that the DataLife Plus discs were only printable surface media. Inkjet and thermal labels.

OIC what you're saying. There is a sub-brand of the good stuff called AZO. AZO is the branded surface Verbatim good media you're referring to. I've had those before as well. DataLife Plus is what I get in inkjet label surfaces, and those are what I just received today. DataLife Plus Verbatim DVD+R inkjet printable surface. I still have some left over AZO Verbatim DVD-R back from when I was exclusively using DVD-R before I switched to DVD+R. I use the branded ones for temporary backups I don't want to keep.

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, DataLife Plus is the only good stuff. There's just Life Series, which is CMC, you find in stores, and DataLife Plus which is the good MCC stuff you only find online here in the States.

Amazon.com always adds the cost of shipping to their items. So, it never pays to pay for additional shipping on top. It's always best to gather $25 together for an order since Amazon.com is already factoring in the shipping in the cost for so called "free" shipping. Thus, Amazon.com is initially more expensive, but on par with other online shops which will charge shipping. And you can really only get the good stuff here in the States online. Don't know about elsewhere, but, here, you have to order them online. An interesting question. Verbatim had an online web store for ordering their discs. I wonder if it will still be up with CMC now the owner. I would bet ordering from them would prove relatively soon if CMC is shipping their CMC crap as DataLife Plus.

I'm half tempted to post a picture of the room where I store all my computer stuff to show you how much of a premium space is. But, you're right about it being only being 20 spindles of 50 each. I didn't do the math to see how many spindles that would be. And Amazon.com has 50 spindle DVD+R's for like $20, so that's $400. As for the BD-R's, you can get 50 of the quality stuff for like $36 on Amazon.com. So, for 1,000, that's (1,000 / 50 ) x $36. That's $720!

As I said earlier, I would stock up on a thousand each of DVD+R, DVD+R DL, CD-R, and BD-R, if I had anywhere near the money to do so and if space in my house wasn't such a commodity.