chewy Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 looks like the provincials are using up all the verb dl's http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...=&langid=EN
dontasciime Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 $24.99 for 20 not suprised they are out of stock. The rating of 3.11 is a bit strange
kevdriver Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 That was an exceptionally good buy, bought 6/20 cakeboxes of them. They also had 50 cakebox of the Verbs Sl on sale for 18$, bought 4 of those as well. Never know when a deal like that might come around again.
Grain Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 Good thing FutureShop gives rain checks! I got one for the DL's, also have a rain check for 100 16X Verbs for $19.99 each, only problem is my local store only has the Prodisc made Verbs in stock, so I may not use it.
dontasciime Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) benq 1650 BCDC us verbs Grain can i ask which firmware you have in your benq 1650 Edited January 19, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 I didn't know Grain had a 1650, I thought he had a 1655 like me I know he has posted scans in the media section with the 1655 and BCIB firmware.
dontasciime Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Good thing FutureShop gives rain checks! I got one for the DL's, also have a rain check for 100 16X Verbs for $19.99 each, only problem is my local store only has the Prodisc made Verbs in stock, so I may not use it. -------------------- BenQ 1650, Pioneer 111L, Plextor 716A, BenQ 1655, LG GSA-H22N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grain's Simple DVDInfoPro Ratings Guide 98% + Excellent 95-97.9% Very Good 90-94.9% Good 85-89.9% Acceptable Less than 85% unacceptable listed in his sig
dontasciime Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) gonna burn one of my UK verbs and have just flashed benq to BCIC to see any different, then set fire to all the benq's i have and chant Edited January 19, 2007 by dontasciime
lfcrule1972 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 http://www.benq.us/support/downloads/downl...cfm?product=817 Is this firmware newer than yours donta ?
lfcrule1972 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 You found the newer firmware as I posted it !!
dontasciime Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 i already have all t he latest firmwares for loads of drives, i collect them, never know when you will need them.
lfcrule1972 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 That is v.similar to what my US Verbs scored mate.....
dontasciime Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 i give up with the first pack of 20 us ones, as straight after burned a us one with 1650 with bcic firmware and down to 78% quality , will just burn them with my liteon 1635s and be done with it not even going to bother scanning them anymore, may have better luck with the remaining unopened us verbs, whatever. got plenty of UK verbs now anyways, the us ones i have well first pack look substandard compared to UK ones, build quality wise like the glue in middle ring is smeared etc, UK ones are crystal clear and look better quality. Out of my control they are what they are, like i said remaining 40 maybe better. The scan has finished now and quality rating went down further to 73% burnt on 1650 BCIC and scanned on same drive. LOL, it will still work so i can live with it.
lfcrule1972 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Mmm, been burning a few more of my US discs lately and all have been reaching 96% plus on the Pioneer DVR-111 donta. I will order some more from the US when I need em cos at the price I am happy to use the DL's a bit more regularly. I have to admit tho the one failure I have had with DL's was on the BenQ DW1655 with latest fw, I just burnt all the others on the Pioneer so I don't really know whether it was a 1 off or an issue with the BenQ's....
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 I burnt my first one of the US ones with the LG Blu-ray burner... I was very happy with the result (It's in the Drives & Media forum if you're interested)
lfcrule1972 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Yeah I saw the Blu ray tests mate - nice work ! Pleased your US DL's are ok as well
kirk1701™ Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 OK you guys lost me somewhere about two pages back Someone said Verbs were made in China? No? Now your talking about US verbs and UK verbs? Whats the difference if they are all from China or was I misinformed?
lfcrule1972 Posted February 15, 2007 Author Posted February 15, 2007 I think they are all made in the far east mate, we are referring to the place we bought them from - So US Verbs were bought on the link above and UK Verbs were bought here probably from www.svp.co.uk
kirk1701™ Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 (edited) Thanks lfc Edit due to piss poor touchpad which does not work right Edited February 16, 2007 by kirk1701
Pain_Man Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 (edited) Price seems to have gone back up again. They were down to $1.60-$1.75 there for a while. Now they're up to $2. I bought a 20pk a week or so ago and the cost was $38 and change (free shipping US only though). From meritline.com. As for difference in qualities, I suppose being flown over the Atlantic in an unheated cargo hold could cause problems with the discs. I'm sure Lightning's better informed on the subject... The scan dontasciime got was about the average got when I had my Bink 1650 up and running. In my new rig I've got a Plex 760A (I know, shoulda bought the SATA one but I had an incidence of cerebral flatulence when placing the order) and an Optiarc AD7170 (Sony-NEC partnership, but the website sucks, not product info; the burner works quite well and reads/write DVD-RAM for $35). FutureShop.ca has them on for $24.99C again Edited April 9, 2007 by Pain_Man
chewy Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Has anyone seen the made in india ones yet, as rumored to be in shops last month? Are disks on the continent(incl UK) even labeled by country of manufacture?
Pain_Man Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 No, I haven't seen them. Are any types of media made in the US? I think Taiwan & Japan are the optical media manufacturing capitals. Has anyone seen the made in india ones yet, as rumored to be in shops last month? Are disks on the continent(incl UK) even labeled by country of manufacture?
chewy Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 Well they are here and the first report are discouraging, scratched disks, discolored, etc $1.40 apeice Sam's Club 50 pack http://forum.digital-digest.com/attachment...mp;d=1177591764
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