Apple Brand blank discs

I have just discovered the existence these from a recent post here. The Apple Store lists DVD-R only (no DVD-RW).
Are -R better than -RW for distribution to others, and if so in what way? For example, more reliable playing on various DVD players?
Same question, Apple DVDs compared to Tayo Uden?
Thanks.

Hi:
I'm pretty sure that Apple media is not "Apple manufactured". I never had a Apple media in my hand to check the real manufacturer.
You can learn about media manufacturer/brand in this page: Media Brand vs. Manufatrurer Brand.
You can use i.e. Toast to check the manufacturer ID from your media. Sometimes (very often) brand name is not manufacturer name.
As you can see in that link, Taiyo Yuden is clasified as first class media, and I have heard the same here in the forums (I personally cannot get that brand in my country and then never used them!).
Hope it helps !
Alberto

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Does anyone know if Apple has stopped making Apple blank DVD-R discs? I was looking for them on the Internet and couldn't find any -- not even at the Apple Store. Thought it was strange. I've never had any problems with them. I'd be very dissappointed if Apple stopped making them. Anybody out there still use Apple blank discs?

From what I understand, Apple never 'made' the DVD-R. I believe they were manufactured for them by Imation, a branch of 3M, at least that's what I was told by a videographer. We've found the Imation products to be quite reliable at our workplace. I would like to see if anyone here could confirm that Imation did, indeed, make the Apple DVD's.

IMac DVD Burner only burns on Apple Brand blank DVDs

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I have an iMac G4 Dome and just last week it stopped burning DVDs on any brand outside of Apple Blank DVDs. The CD burner works fine, it's just the DVD burner. Can anybody help?

maybe you just accidentally bought your first batch of DVD+R.
The burner in that machine can only burn DVD-R
THis is confusing to a lot of people. We're all so used to seeing CD-R, that we just assume DVD-R has a similar meaning.
The breakdown is something like this.
CD-R = Compact Disc (dash) Recordable
DVD-R = DVD minus Recordable
DVD+R= DVD plus Recordable.
I know it's dopey, but that's probably what's happening. The early superdrive, though actually ABLE TO DO IT, has the firmware blocking any DVD+R media, largely because Apple knew that +R media will not play in a lot of consumer decks, and didn't want to field the questions and irate calls (i.e. My iMovie and iDVD project wont play in my cousin's DVD player??!!!_
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Hello Everyone
I posted a message a little while ago about the back-up problem I am having and it looks like there are loads of other i-Pod users having the same issue. This is when i-Tunes keeps on rejecting the blank discs and asking you to insert another blank disc, ultimately meaning that you cannot back-up.
I have emailed Apple support and from the reply I got it looks like Apple know about this issue and are looking for a solution to the problem. I can only assume that this will be fixed in a future update. That said, I hope it is not to long in coming, as I have alot of purchased music not backed up.
If anyone has discovered a way to get around this problem on i-Tunes, please let us know! I know I could back up manually, but that is a real pain, as it takes ages to work out the amount of music that will fit on one CD-R, when i-Tunes normally does this for you!
Over and out!
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I was able to select a playlist, such as Purchased, and write it to DVD-R. It puts songs out as m4p files. I have done it (tried it) only once so far. It complained that it might take an hour to finalize the DVD but it only took a few minutes for me (only about 80 songs - sort of waste of a DVD). I think I selected "Burn playlist to disc".
I too had trouble with the backups after moving to 7.3. Worked OK in 7.2.

Have the Apple brand DVD-R discs been discontinued by Apple?

I went to the Apple store today and they were all gone. Does Apple plan on replacing those?

I've seen some lurking in dark corners of some CompUSA stores, but they're definitely old, since they're 8X discs only. I would think that if Apple were planning on continued production of Apple-branded discs that they'd have produced 16X ones.
Is there a particular reason you want Apple branded discs? Are they the only brand that you've gotten to work in your machine?

Now that Apple branded DVD media (DVD-R/-RW x2, 4, 8) No Longer Exists.....

I've had my Powerbook G4 for about 3 years now and have only been successful burning DVDs with Apple's own branded media. Other branded media has had a fairly high fail-rate with my UJ-816 Superdrive and there are no firmware updates for the model. Apple-branded media is just short of a ZERO fail rate (maybe 2-3 lost out of 200-300 DVDs and many hundreds of CDRs - honest, it's been that good).
Apple branded DVD-R/-RW media compatible with x2/x4/x8 (I have an x2 but it's been fine using x8) IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. I've dug through Apple stores, Best Buy, online stores, eBay, MacMall, J&R Electronics, etc. and nothing.
So, does anyone else with one of these slower burning Superdrives have any recommendations for other branded media that they've found works successfully?
Thanks - I'm desperately trying to complete backup of a 30,000+ track audio library to DVD and this is really the wrong time to find the only media that worked is no longer marketed.
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Sorry to hear that, but there's surprising hope: you want to shop by manufacturer, not Brand. Indeed, check www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm. Apple sold Mitsubishi discs. These are currently sold as Mitsubishi-Kagaku Media (MKM) by Verbatim & Infiniti (of England). You can shop by 'brand' locally, if you rewrite the 'brand' table on 'digitalfaq' by replacing the manufacturer by those manufacturers it subcontracts to (I assume the worst). :-[ Sony, Kodak, Panasonic, & Verbatim sell only the best, often Taiyo Yuden: reportedly the best manufacturer! But Taiyo Yuden can be bought directly from such internet stores as www.supermediastore.com/, where 200 8x Taiyo Yuden DVD-R discs in black, plastic sleeves are currently on sale for $40: that's US$ 0.20 each. Internet superstore like this are supposed to list the media codes, but all I've ever found is MKM listed. Other codes just list the brand's name: some brands don't even manufacture discs, and others that manufacture even the best discs subcontract to poor manufacturers when the company is in need. Taiyo Yuden doesn't subcontract. If you buy a mystery brand (which I don't believe is economical), check the return policy: they will replace discs that fail from visible damage, but who has the time for that? As a final note, many drives burn my MKM001s at 8x (because, I suspect, they consulted Verbatim when writing their firware table), whereas my LaCie writer (Samsung OEM) writes it at 2x (because, I suspect, they more responsibly consulted MKM for their table). If you burned Apple's DVD-Rs at 8x, check with Apple or http://www.cdfreaks.com/ and ask what speed your drive will burn the Taiyo Yuden DVD-R or the Verbatim DVD-RW, claimed to burn at 4x and currently selling for about US$1.00 each. I've a list of reputable internet stores selling blank media which I initially found, then added to from Germany (which are bilingual stores) & France (which wouldn't think of it). Apple likely prefers I offer such lists by e-mail. You're welcom to write, from a .Mac alias. PS. Check out 'Office Depot' brand on the first website.

Itunes no longer recognizes any blank discs I insert for burning.

While recently trying to burn a cd from my iTunes library, the program didn't recognize any blank discs I inserted. It kept saying 'please insert blank disc'. Every other program on my pc will recognize these blank discs which are brand new and of top quality. What gives ?
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Dell Inc. Dimension 8400
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CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
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Hi
the same thing is happening to me and I just opened a brand new package of
CD-R's. If I dont get that message I get the error 4280(see my main post)
I am looking for answers too.
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Optical Drive ejects Blank Discs

I have an internal optical drive Pioneer model DVD-RW DVR-104. Whenever I insert a blank DVD-RW disc it ejects it. If I am trying to copy a DVD in the Toast application, the blank disc keeps being ejected with a Toast message that says "Insert a recordable disc". If I insert a recorded DVD it plays fine and the Toast application copies it but I can't get it written on a blank DVD because the blank disc keeps being ejected. How do I fix this problem?

Yes, absolutely. From doing a search on the net, this seems to be a very common issue.
When I had the latest version of Leopard, all ran smoothly. Burning was fine. Ever since the installation of Snow Leopard, my superdrive ejects all blank CD's.
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- This happens after a reboot, or shut down, wait a few moments, start up again
- I've already done disk repair (which is standard practice after any software update)
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xfm,
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Today though, for some reason NOTHING works, I even left the Mac mini 'naked' (without casing) while trying ten times and blowing air in between each time.
I have two batches of Verbatim DVD-R (100packs) bought in two different stores about a month or so apart, and one batch of CD-Rs that are yet another make. All of them with the same problem.
I think this is a hardware problems and it absolutely stinks that it only happens after the Apple warranty has expired. I've done about a 100+ disks on the Mac mini, which in my mind is hardly any at all, so it can't be 'worn out'.
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PS. I also have a MacBook Pro C2D with a busted spindle in the SuperDrive (UJ-857D), so me no like SuperDrives very much.

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