Memorex 4x Blu-ray blanks

[jgwatt]

Originally Posted by sebasd5

I have an LG GBW-H20L, which is probably very similar to yours. In my experience, Memorex BD-R media is absolute crap. I bought a spindle of 15 back in January. Back then I burned 3 of them with personal videos that I had edited in Vegas Pro 8 and encoded to MPEG-2 at 40 Mbps to conserve the highest quality possible. After burning them I played them in my Sony BDP-S300 player and they played perfectly well.

About four months later, I wanted to play one of them in the Sony and it wouldn't play. I'm extremely careful with all my discs, I never put a fingerprint on them, I always grab them by the edges, and I use a dust remover can (the kind that blows out with high pressure) to make sure there's not a single dust particle on the surface. Even so, this disc wasn't recognized by neither the player nor the LG burner.

So I tried the other discs that I had burned. They would play, but they would freeze the motion for a split second every second or so, amking them unwatchable. As I said before, all these discs had played just fine after burning them initially in January. So it's obvious to me that these Memorex crap media is of extremely poor quality and the materials in them deteriorate rapidly, so I would not recommend them to anybody, even though they are very cheap. The first reason I bought them was because I rarely had any problems with Memorex DVD or CD media, but after this experience I will not buy any Memorex media ever again.

Thats very helpful and thank you.
What do you use now.
I am finding that the TDK BD-R 4x are fine but you have to wonder about the long term deteriation, if any.