FujiFilm CD-R's are the best brand to make copies from
922879
FujiFilm CD-R's are the best brand to make copies from, you can get cheaper media but with FujiFilm I can copy a disk and put it away knowing that it was copied right and not be surprised that it doesn't work when you try to use the copy later. Well worth the extra money!!
4951971
I'm a musician and I must be able to record material for practicing and working with my band. I also record the band at live gigs as well .I've been using Sony blank cd discs for years and have never had any real issues. These recordable discs do the job. They pick up every bit of the what I want in the music. You can't go wrong with these discs.
1520806
These are of such high quality, anyone here who "could not get them to burn in their HP" as the ONE guy said below simply does not know what they are doing.

I have burned over 400 of these (this 100-spindle price at Amazon, even without rebate now, blows away the prices even at Costco, Sam's Club, other online retailers, etc.) for this great media.  This is not the bargain basement, dime a dozen junk you see advertised sometimes in the paper or online.  Verbatim 8x discs are made with a special, high quality dye process that allows faster DVD burners (Plextor, Sony, NEC, Ben Q, etc.) to burn these discs as 12x!  That is correct, buy these Verbatim 8x rated speed for DVD, and these will always burn at 12x.  Why? These Verbatim are high-quality, and no special gimmicks nor additional programs make them burn faster - they just do it on their own as long as your burner is that fast to begin with :)

In summary, the only coasters (out of 400) I have ever made with this media was due to my own error - not the Verbatims.  These are of equal or greater quality than the expensive Tayo Yuden brand.  So, for that fella that had problems, your problems go beyond the Verbatim DVD+R discs.  The discs are not your problem.

Great quality, unbeatable price, and speeds that exceed the 8x printed on the side (you can get 12x with a good burner - my Plextor flys with these).  You can't go wrong.  Thanks, Amazon.
1847603
I read the reviews on several recordable DVDs before getting my first 100 of the Philips.  There were 13 bad discs in the pack.  All the rest copied perfectly and fast.  I took a chance on the next 100 I bought and they were all good.  I just bought 50 more and there have been no duds.  I now recommend Philips for +R DL DVD discs.
2555409
I purchased some Amazon DVD+R DL discs in the hopes of reducing my per disc cost, but the quality was extremely sub-par and resulted in bad burns.

There is just no comparison to verbatim discs, as they continue to work flawlessly in all my laptops and desktops for many years now.
1790046
Memorex and Maxell are pulling a con with their music only CD-R's. First of all Maxell shockingly and the other both don't work in my Phillips 760 recorder, But my last batch did as Sony. Memorex Music were cons and weren't working at all for years and there pretty much phased out. I think they are trying to phase out these discs all together. They don't really make these machines anymore except Tascam. I personally think they are marketing them as music only but are regular CD-R's. Sony might be the last legimate company to use the Music Audio only format. I don't know of any other brand.
1986045
After much experience with other brands of music CD-R(s), this is only brand that will work reliably with a Sony RCD-W500 Compact Disc Recorder.  Any other brand often results in TOC errors whenever the recorded CD is finalized.
247094
These BD-R DL discs are amazing.  Some very good quality when it comes to burning using these discs.  I have used roughly 115 of these and only have 4 failure to complete writing errors when burning them.  I have not had a single issue with them playing in my Sony bluray player at all.  No artifacting, digitizing, skipping or pausing and then jumping forward.  With these you will be able to back up anything digital you own that isn't the cloud which could be erased with out your consent or a hard drive with mechanical parts that could stop working.  And from personal experience these things hold a ton of photos, A TON.  Like other reviewers have said I would check to make sure your bluray burner can burn these disc before you buy.  I had no problems with an LG burner I bought 3 years ago.  A very high quality product which I would recommend and will keep buying for my own use.
3709434
if your looking for DVD-R writable discs, this is a very affordable 100pack on a spindle with a convenient handle of VERY high quality discs.  I've been using these to burn countless DVD ISO files of movies that I've made into DVD's, and I've never had a bad burn a single time.

Great quality, i mean, it's HP, not some crap, so they have manufacturing quality controls over the optical discs, and found very reasonable for the price point.  I continue to purchase these as needed.
726695
These are the best BD-R DLs I've used.  You can find them for good prices and I have a zero coaster rate using them.  Haven't had a single issue with them yet and they are widely acknowledged as the best 50gb BD-Rs on many blogs that are dedicated to people making movie backups and for data storage.
3403077
I have burned almost 1,000 DVDs and every brand I have tried has had some failures in a spindle of 100.  With one brand, I had as many as 18 that failed out of 100.  I am on my second spindle of 100 Sony DVD-R reprintables and not a single one has failed so far. (Actually one did, but it was my fault.)  Out of all the brands I have used, they seem the best.  I only use 3 brands now: Sony, HP or Verbatim.  I would buy Sony again anytime.  Note that every brand I have tried fails if I go above the minimum burn speed.  Could be my old slow hardware that causes the problem with not being able to burn at higher speeds.  I have also experienced playback problems with certain brands.  They appear to burn okay, but then have problems playing back.  No issues with any of the Sony disks so far with recording or playback.
4519080
First off, I'd like to address all the reviewers who say they've had problems with Memorex CD-R's.  I also had problems in the past with Memorex.  They would seemingly burn fine, but they wouldn't play even when I put them in my brand new cd player which is designed to play CD-R's, MP3 cd's, and all of that.  It would either skip so badly that you couldn't listen to it or else just freeze and not play anything.  BUT, those days are over, I believe.  I just recieved these new Memorex CD-R's a few days ago, and they've been perfect so far.  I tried them in all my cd players and they've all worked beautifully.  I had no problem with the burning process either.  Memorex has apparently fixed these problems.

So, now that that's out of the way, if you're looking for cheap, quality CD-R's, this is the way to go.  There's nothing wrong with them that I could tell.  The sound quality is fine (although this depends almost entirely on the quality of the mp3 and not the quality of the CD you burn it to) and the price compared to the amount of cd's you get is the best I've seen (actually it's dropped 3 bucks in the last few days...I should have waited to buy them!).

In the end, it's only 4 stars because of course there are higher quality products out there.  If you're looking to buy these, don't let the bad reviews hold you back.  Buy them and start burning some great music.
2680435
I purchased HP CD-R inkjet-printable discs and they are perfect for what I need. I used to purchase them in the stores, they stopped carrying them. How rude. So I check on Amazon.com and they have 'em. Thanks Amazon.com - dj papi
694630
I recently received a Fuji Finepix F601 as a gift; the giver, a professional photographer, included a Fuji 128MB Smart Media Card as a matter of course. Thank goodness he knew what he was doing in terms of storage needs, at least -- the 601 only comes with a 16MB card, which on the 601 is only enough for 5 images at the highest recording level. If you're getting a compatible Fuji, Olympus, or other-brand camera, you really need the highest storage card possible.
But it turns out these cards are fragile, and fingerprints can short them out or cause problems with the camera or reader being able to access their contents. So the best way to keep them around forever is to get a 128 MB card and never remove it! Ideally, then, this should be a solution coupled with the purchase or ownership of a camera which interfaces directly (USB or firewire) with the PC, so there won't be a need to remove the card. Ever. That security, and the ability to store over a hundred 8x10 print-quality pix on one wafer-thin card, makes the bigger sized card easily worth the extra cost if you're getting a Fuji or other-brand digital camera.
As for brand...well, after trying a Fuji and a Viking card, and checking the wiring stats on both, it turns out the brand names of Smart Cards have almost nothing to do with quality -- these are, for all intents and purposes, interchangable -- so buying the cheapest one out there is the best bet. And, with rebates, the Viking card IS the cheapest Smart Media brand on the market -- by a factor of about 10% or more.  With no complaints and lots of joyful picture taking happening in my house, I therefore give SanDisk five stars for the basic product, then...but take away one star for a higher cost.  Sorry, SanDisk.
3626616
Ive bought these discs for a long time since i burn xbox 360 games. Hands down the best quality and most recommended anywhere. The biggest reason, and also of course the most important, is the lack of times these will error out on you. You want to be pissed go by some cheap kodak brand DL discs and watch as you throw more than half of those pos discs away. Anyways not to get side tracked but yes these cost more than a lot but you pay for the great quality. I used to get these at Frys electronics but the store is just horrible, customer service, theres never one really close to you, and they constantly had them out of stock. Ordering off amazon simplifies the whole thing and i just wait to get them at my door for about the same price as in store.
2096610
These CD-RW music discs work perfectly in my Sony RCD-W3 recorder. Have rewritten discs more than 10 times & still OK
1479722
I chose these for data backup because they write immediately and faster than dvd-r and rw (of similar speed like 4x of course). The discs are all coated and feel studier with no flex compared to the thinner more common media- that is, unless I go out of my way to find "premium" media.

These are made in Japan- much like the best media Taiyo Yuden and older samples from brands like Pioneer. Out of dozens of older discs from Japan and two hundred Taiyo Yuden discs I've had no coasters. Couldn't say the same for TDK/SONY and the modern thin pieces from Taiwan.

I highly recommend these if your recorder and reader supports this because they write fast enough in Windows 7, granted your stuff fits in the capacity of one or two discs. I wouldn't bother with this though if you are backing up movies or huge things that span many discs. For that you'd be better off with blu-ray or portable hd.

For me,
these are used almost daily in my ThinkPad running Win7 and often on three IBM servers- an x86 Bladecenter, X455 and a p570 for backups with no problems. For me the value is in the ease-of-mind due to durability and error correction. I have fewer discs laying around than with dvd-rw since I don't make duplicates and I have way less plastic waste/disposal than with dvd-r media.

Other use for these are for things like video recording but those users are moving to solid state media now. I could use something like a flash drive or external HDD for all this but even FAT32 formatted ones don't have driver support in AIX. I also sleep a little tighter at night knowing the data is in little plastic slabs instead of complex electronics with either the possibility of mechanical or electronic accidents.

I'd love to use Blu-ray media since I can duplicated data like five times on the same disc or just store more stuff :p but alas the ancient niche software I have (excluding windows osx) don't really appreciate cutting edge tech.