Infiniti Electric Blue16x DVD-R review

Conclusion

Having already reviewed some of the Infiniti Samurai 16x+/-R media earlier this year, comparing a new addition, using a different stamp code and dye was foremost on my mind whilst conducting the tests for this review. Granted hardware has changed a lot in that time and the producer of the media CMC Magnetics is still the same, but changing production methods should not result in lowering quality standards in this reviewers opinion. CMC Magnetics, as one of the biggest producers of media have hopefully worked tried hard to get good hardware support in place. The fact that all recording devices used attained the rated speed of 16x shows that rated speed recordings are consistently possible with this batch of media.

But what about the quality of these recordings? As always here at CDR-Zone.COM, attaining the quickest recording time doesn't always mean that the quality of the recording is good. This is why many recording devices have advanced logic such as Power Record, WOPC, Smartburn etc to adjust to media variation and adjusting recording speed to suit. The very best media in the world can be made poor by a bad recording strategy. Recordings made on the Plextor PX-760A and Philips DVDR1660P1 showed that a quality recording could be achieved inconjunction with the Infiniti Electric Blue 16x DVD-R media, whilst the recording made with the Samsung SH-182M also seemed very usuable. However some improvement does look needed for both the Pioneer DVR 111D and Optiarc AD-7173A recording devices to bring them more inline with the better results achieved with the Plextor and Philips devices.

In summing up I would say that medea international have strifed to deliver a low cost, consistently good quality media where good hardware support allows. You may not get the same sort of reassuring quality that you would get with a Taiyo Yuden class of media but there is a huge difference in the price you pay and this media is very usuable indeed. CMC Magnetic media can come in various grades and Medea international assure us that they try their upmost to retain a high level of consitency in the quality of the media they recieve before they allow it to be sold on to the end user. Of course the tests carried out in this review are really only a gauge of quality and it is the long term reliability that I am keen to test at a later date. As always I look forward to hearing your comments and results with this media in the Media forum.

About the Infiniti brand :

Infiniti is a brand of recordable optical media, recordable CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R Lightscribe and other backup storage media made by Medea International, a British company based in Scotland. The Infiniti brand name has been very successful in Europe, and has been selling since 1998. Infiniti discs are considered amongst the best brands in Europe.

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Sponsors of this review

I would like to take this moment to thank the companies who provided the media as well as most of the hardware for this review. Without the generous and ongoing support of these companies this review would not of been possible in such detail - Thank you!

• Medea International for supplying the Infinti Electric Blue 16x DVD-R media used in this review.
• SVP communications for providing the Pioneer DVR 111D writer used in this review.
• Plextor Europe for providing the Plextor PX-760A Premium DVD writer used in this review.
• Philips For providing the Philips DVDR 1660P1 DVD writer used in this review.