Blank-Media Reviews

This wouldnt play at all in my DVD player, the menu never came up and it wouldnt even detect as an audio CD for some reason. It did, however, work great with my CD player and even allowed to find out my speakers were out of phase which I easily corrected by reversing the positive and negative leads for one of the speakers.

I'll be looking for another cleaner for my DVD player as this one seems to be made more for audio and has no video features as far as I could find.

After pouring over all the DVD/CD Laser Lens Cleaners here, that vary quite a bit in price, I took the advice of the last reviewer who said they all work about the same, so for the price this one will do the trick.So thanks "an electronics fan from New York"..You were right. The"Memorex CD/DVD Laser Lens Cleaner" cleaned and restored the performance of my DVD player(which is also a CD player), and more. It has 6 little brushes on the disc designed to remove dust and other small particles that may be lurking on your laser lens after hours of play.This ensures a crisp/clear playback.

What the buying info here on the product page didn't tell me, was that seven "Quality Tests and Optimization Tools" are also included on this terrific little gadget.The whole process between the cleaning and the tests took all of about 5 minutes. Once the nice voice told me my lens was clean it instructed me on making sure that I was getting optimum effciency from my set up.

The tests included are 1.Stereo Imaging and Channel ID Check-checks set up of left and right speakers. 2.Polarity Test - checks positive/negative set-up. 3.Sweep Test - will let you know if all your speakers are working correctly. 4.ProLogic Imaging- checks your surround sound. 5.System Balance Check -adjusts for optimum volume levels. 6.Rattle Test - checks for vibration during low frequency emissions. 7. System Purity Test -checks for unwanted interference. If your system doesn't "pass" any of these tests, "the voice" will also tell you how what to do to correct it, or will tell you that your system is at it's optimum level.It will also advise you on how often to clean your DVD player.

I love this thing! It's multifunctional, reusable(keep it stored in the case it comes with), a good brand name and the price is right. Go for it....Laurie

I own a Sony 2001 SCD775 CD/SACD Player. Until recently it would play any burned CD's perfectly. During the last several months, it would refuse to recognize burned cd's at all most of the time. This problem seemed to be dirt, as burned cd's are more difficult to read than regular cd's. This Memorex CD/DVD Laser Lens cleaner worked quickly and restored my CD player to perfect working condition for burned and regular CD's. Give this CD cleaner a shot--it's definitely worth the money!

I have often relied on HP for quality in computers, and it is no surprise that I have had to rely on them comfortably here. Their CD-Rs are among the best so far (like Verbatim) and I have had the least errors with HP discs compared to other brands. Since cutting my first audio CD six months ago (using a Brahms symphony as a demo) I have had no problems with the recorded disc as it plays well, and I have made a good choice so far. Overall, I can only say that I have struck gold in using this type of CD-R.

On the contrary to the review "Don't waste your time," HP's CD-R/RW's are the highest quality out there. According to HP's website, HP makes the best CD-R/RW's in the industry (at least so far). Their CD-R/RW's has the longest data retention, are less likely to error, and are much more durable than bargain brand discs. There is a reason for their expensive price tags. If your data is extremely valuable (such as for important backups) go with HP CD-R/RW's.

I have an 1995 sony cd player in my truck and it is very picky about which cdr media I use. HPs have always worked the best for me.

Hewlett Packard CD-R's are okay, I have a couple of them and they work great. However, I don't recommend these CD-R's because they are so ugly. Pretty much, CD-R's are the same, I have preferences based on looks. I recommend getting Memorex 80 minute CD-R's because they are bigger and the look cool. Ricoh Platinum is what I use for storing data. Memorex 80 is what I use for music.

Of all the CDR's that I've tried, I've never yet had HP CD media fail. I had about a 20% success rate with other brands. Since I have an external HP CD writer, I even contacted HP's support site, thinking there was something wrong with my hardware. But they said to go with HP media, since they're processed with the strictest quality controls in the industry. I thought, yeah, of course they're going to say that. But I've found HP CDRs and CDRWs to be extremely dependable (even though it took me a while to stop holding my breath while the recording time ticked down towards zero!) You can't go wrong with HP CD media.

Unlike the other reviewers, I have never had any problem at all burning these CD-R's - and I have made over 60 of them. They make a perfect recording for me all the time (I have an internal ATAPI drive by Philips), with music and data, and the music CD's I make, play on every player we have - boombox to Pioneer Elite, including the car! One reviewer complained about how they look (huh??) - but I frankly don't see the problem. To me, these are flawless CD-R disks. You can't go wrong.

I was extremely disappointed with this company. After I had not received my order after three weeks, I contacted this company about my order and they didn't respond. After the second attempt to find out about my order, I asked them to either respond to me or refund my money. They chose to refund my money rather than even bothering to give me an answer. I will never purchase from them again

Burned 50 CDs (Musics & Games). None of them had problem. Great value for the price!

As someone who generally believes 'you get what you pay for', I can confidently say that with CD's, more $$$ doesn't mean better. A CD is a CD, provided that it doesn't have manufacturing defects. After burning 150 of this brand's discs, I've only had a couple that had problems - but I can't prove that the CD was the culprit and not the drive software. These discs appear to be just fine. So save your money on popular name brands - shop by price. I do.

So even with 2 'coasters', I'm still far ahead ($ wise) than if I bought Sony, Maxell, or any other brand name.

I was excited to start using my DVD burner after filming my family reunion, and creating a production to burn. Of the first 5 DVD+RW's that I bought, 4 of them worked with the last one hanging up about 15 minutes into the DVD.

I had another project going so I bought some more of Memorex's DVD+RW's, and out of the 10, 1 worked. The other 9 locked up my computer, or weren't even recognised by my computer as proper media! If you look online, you will see that many people have problems with these DVD's and there are message boards devoted exclusively to this product!

I would not suggest these. However, I have also used Verbatim DVD+RW's extensively with no problems and would highly recommend them instead of Memorex. Apparently there's a reason Memorex is the cheapest DVD on the shelf.

I bought these to back up my data and I'm happy I did. First of all I have never had a Memorex disk (CD or DVD) go bad unless I did something to mess it up. Every one of the pack worked (as do all the DVD-R Memorex disks I also bought).

You can find cheaper DVD-RWs out there, but you usually get what you pay for. I'll always look for the Memorex label in the future.

If you've been using DVD+RW, you know how great the format is. I find that the DVD+Rs are compatible with a whole lot more existing DVD players than the +RWs, but the +RWs are wonderful for everyday use. I use a Philips DVDR985 DVD recorder and even after using the same disks over 10 times, I haven't noticed any problems or had any of my disks go bad.

Yeah the colors are beautiful, but the problem is that most (80% at least) of the colors don't work in CD burners. I could only get the yellow and the black to work in my CD burner, the rest of them I had to throw away because the burner didn't even recognize them as blank CDs.

I have one of the newer, top of the line burners that is supposed to burn information on just about anything. Well, it wouldn't burn on these pieces of crap.

Never again!

I have been looking for these as they were the last blanks I had that worked well in my cd player. Not to say they work any better than other high quality cd-r's only that I cheaped out and bought a big pack of maxell discs and they don't work. I've thrown out at least half of the discs I've tried to use.

These discs are great, and the colors are so nifty. It's not just a colored label, the entire CD is the color. They're lovely. Great for gifts, especially for people who like shiny things.

These cds are great! They have great amounts of time on them (80 minutes) and they work on just about every cd. I had a box for quite a while and just couldn't stop using them. I made a bunch of cds for my friends and family. I definitly recomend these blank cds to anyone who knows how to use a cd burner.

Wow! A Cd that plays music, uhh and only music. It is rumoured (but I confirm it) If you put a music-only cd into a music-only cd burner then force the drive open, put a cheap blank cd in. It doesn't complain, and does the job. Buy the Memorex, they're cheap and do the job. Whats all this about 'sound quality' Its digital? Get a new cd player. And scratch-resistant? Just don't use it as a drinks coaster, put-it-back-in-the-box! For people stuck with a music-cd burner forced to pay rediculous Cd prices, swap it for a Pc burner.

Great sound after I record on this TDK CD!

For the avid CD maker, TDK offers the best deal. Above all the rest in the scratch resistent catagory. Don't mess around with any other disk, this is the one!

I ordered the zip 750 to go with a new computer, that would no longer recognize my old, parallel port zip 100. Overall, i have been extremely pleased with the drive. The 750 mb disks are massive, compared to my old 100mb disks. With the firewire connection, it is as fast or faster than another zip i have with a atapi connection. There are only a few things that prevent this drive from recieving five stars. Fist, in order to connect it to a computer with a four-pin port, you need to call iomega and ask them to send you a power supply. Although they send the adapter quickly, and it is free, the additional step is a pain. Another problem i encountered is that the drive only comes with a six pin cord. If you want to attach the drive to a computer with a four pin port, be ready to shell out another thirty bucks for another cord. Although this should be no suprise, for some reason, the new drives can read but not write the old disks. It is evidently clear on the packaging that this is the case, but i still am frequently annoyed by that. My final complaint is that occasionally, on startup, windows XP does not immeadiatly recognize the drive. If you pull out the chord, wait a few seconds and then plug it back in, the drive is accesible. Agian, not a serious problem but an occasional hassle.Other than these minor problems, the zip 750 drive is an exceptional piece of equipment, and a true heir to this long line of sturdy, well designed storage devices.

A year ago, I would have cheerfully told you that there was no reason for anyone to waste money on a Zip drive. The largest capacity model then available was the 250, which was less than half of what a CD-RW could hold. CD burners were shipping pretty much as standard on all new computers. I grudgingly shelled out the money for a Zip drive on my new machine only because I needed some way of transferring data from the old one, which had a Zip 100 drive but no CD burner.

It didn't take me long to realize what a very wise investment I'd made. I prefer to synchronize my important documents and system settings using something like Windows Briefcase (barely useful) or Scooter Software's "Beyond Compare", which does a tremendous job of not only synchronizing files and entire directory trees, but scanning each file byte-by-byte for any signs of changes and/or corruption. It's very easy to update or repair any file the program flags.

What I discovered very quickly was that CD-RW drives were utterly worthless for this task. It didn't matter whether I used Roxio's "Direct CD", which came with the computer, or Nero's much-touted "InCD". The former constantly and reliably corrupted my data, while the latter just as reliably crashed my computer every time I tried it. Windows XP has built-in CD-writing software, but it is useless for the kind of file synchronization that I do.

"You can treat your CD just like a giant floppy!!!" Yeah, right! Nice try, guys!

Worse yet, as I troubleshooted Roxio's software, I discovered their nasty little secret. CDs created under Version 4 of "Direct CD" could not be read by Version 5, and people running Windows XP couldn't load Version 4 without crashing their computers. I wondered: What would happen when Version 6 came out?

So suddenly I found myself using that Zip 250 as my main means of file backup, along with a spare external hard drive. But, of course, 250 MB is not, by today's standards, a great deal of space. I needed three disks to do the job, and these were almost full. Plus, the Zip drive was painfully slow.

Thus, when Iomega announced their new Zip 750, I took immediate notice. I have actually worked with two of these devices. The one at work is a USB 2.0 model running on Windows 2000, while the one at home, running on Windows XP Home, is the nearly identical FireWire model featured on this page.

Setup of the FireWire device on Windows XP is very simple. You plug it into your FireWire port, wait for Windows Plug-and-Play to recognize it, then insert a Zip 750 disk and start working. Windows XP has built-in support for Zip drives, so you don't need to install anything from the included CD for basic file system operations. If, however, you want to write- or password-protect your Zip disk, you'll have to install Iomega Tools from the CD. They also offer a basic file backup utility. Since I haven't done anything with these, I can't comment on how well they work.

I started using the Zip 750 at home on December 10th of last year, and basically I've been very happy with it. While not as fast as a hard drive, it's certainly a major improvement over the Zip 250. I have yet to see one file be corrupted, and "Beyond Compare" has done literally dozens of very thorough scans on my backups. This is the very first time in my nearly 20 years of working with PCs that I can say with reasonable certainty that my backups are secure.

One performance bottleneck I've encountered is, according to Iomega's web site, due to the way Windows XP operates. Namely, copying (or comparing) large numbers of small files is drastically slower than copying small numbers of large files, even if the overall byte count is the same. So I use PKZip in a few places to create larger archives for faster copying.

The only reason I don't give this drive five stars is because of a dangerous design flaw. This is a very handsome-looking drive with a bright, shiny, metal plate on top. Unfortunately, said metal is an excellent conductor of static electricity. The very night I installed the drive on my home computer, I zapped it with my finger while attempting to insert a disk. This immediately knocked the drive off-line, and nothing but turning the computer off, then back on, would get Windows to recognize it again. My heart about stopped until I was satisfied that no permanent damage was done, either to the drive or to the computer.

Considering how light the drive is, there is no way to avoid touching it while doing an insert. Otherwise it simply slides backwards as you push.

The solution? Decidedly low-tech! I powered everything down, unplugged the drive, took that handy little anti-static bag the thing shipped in, wrapped it around the drive, and Scotch-taped it in place! Since then, I've had peace of mind and no problems at all!

The Zip 750 will reliably read and write the older Zip 250 disks (albeit more slowly), and will even read (but not write to) my ancient Zip 100 disks. Unlike some of those CD writing programs, Iomega takes backward compatibility seriously.

So, if you want speed and reliability, this drive is well worth the money.

We have several Peerless drives along with 10 extra 10g disk plus 5 extra 20g disk, all used for backups. The drives replaced the discounted several Ditto Max tape backup units and have been working for over 8 months with only minor software issues. Installation is a snap, as for the speed difference, yes the Firewire is about 5 times faster then the USB, Our USB drives Avg. transfer rate is around 30MB per second and the Firewire drive is around 130MB per second.

I disagree with one of the former reviewers who said he feels that Iomega Drives are flakey. I have run 250MB Zip drives both ext and int for several years w/o problems. This new peerless is easy to install and use, it's speed is fairly fast with USB 1.1 and will no doubt be even faster with USB 2.0 when it becomes widely available. A 7GB back-up of my entire Hard Drive took only 110 min with my USB 1.1 connection. As I understand it; changing to a firewire interface will require only the replacement of the base unit. The receptacle and Disks can be used with any base. I disconnected my tape back-up drives and put them in storage!!!

This product is great. We haven't had any problems with it - and we really work it hard (the drive is shared and accessed by several different PCs at once).

In my opinion there is basically no point in buying this product. You could get a 100 pack of Memorex 80min/700mb on this site for a lower price. The Memorex's are of equal quality to these so I recommend them unless you have a ton of money and like 74 minute cds for some reason.

UNLESS YOU HAVE MONEY TO BURN, DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!

Do you have a cd player that won't play your burned discs? Many older players can't handle an 80 min./700 MB CD. In many cases the 74 min./650 MB media comes to the rescue. Since it follows the standard of the original CD, the older player accepts it.

Some might respond that any player that can't play the newer CD's is too old and should be cheap to replace. Unfortunately my Honda Civic CD player (circa 1998) is neither, and it won't play anything but 74 min./650 MB CDs burned at 4x. It isn't worth the few dollars saved for the more expensive media or the 6 minutes playtime (which commercially pressed CD's don't use anyway) to upgrade.

I saw a photo of this on amazon, so I couldn't resist. It's EXACTLY what is on my headboard on my bed in my room right now. I don't do too much burning any more, but for what I do use it for, I use these discs. I've used about 1/3 of the spindle, and they have not failed me yet. These are also BLUE-bottomed discs...which are the best in my opinion. They are heavily scratch resistant, and they look cool and bring you back to the days of only 4x media. I've used other TDK products in the past, and I expect the rest of the spindle to be no different. TDK stands alone as one of digital media's best sources for quality sound and trustworthy media.