Product Description

AmazonBasics products are quality electronics accessories offered at a great value.

Product Details

• Brand: AmazonBasics
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 4.35" w x 8.00" l, 2.02 pounds

Features

• Ships in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging
• One spindle containing 50 8.5 GB capacity, 8x write-speed dual-layer DVD+R recordable video disks
• Stores up to 4 hours of DVD quality video or 8.5 GB of data
• Stable, reliable, accurate writing at high speeds
• Backed by one-year Amazon Basics warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
This spindle of 50 AmazonBasics 8X DVD+R Double Layer disks provides a natural storage solution for video files and other high-capacity data. Each disk offers a capacity of 8.5 GB--enough space to store four hours of DVD quality video. These DVD+R Double Layer disks support fast write speeds from 2.4X to 8X and provide a recording time of up to 240 minutes.

The AmazonBasics 8X DVD+R DL disks offer a capacity of 8.5 GB, write speeds from 2.4X to 8X, and a recording time of up to 240 minutes.

Recommended Uses: Storing up to four hours of DVD quality video for play on DVD players. Backing up and archiving up to 8.5 GB of data and media. Technical Specifications: Capacity: 8.5 GB Format: DVD+R Double Layer Recording Speed: 8x Recording Time: 240 minutes Warranty: AmazonBasics 1-Year Limited Warranty [PDF] Documentation: Helpful Hints [PDF] Compatible Drives: Compatibility List [PDF]

DVD+R Double Layer Disks: Double the Storage
DVD+R Double Layer is a Write-Once format with a storage lifetime that's intended for storing videos and archiving important business or personal data. DVD+R Double Layer disks offer a storage capacity of 8.5 GB. Because the disks can hold nearly twice as much data, they are a low-cost, space-saving storage choice that can be used for a wide range of applications.

Each AmazonBasics DVD+R Double Layer disk can record up to four hours of DVD quality video programming, so you don't have to split up long programs onto several disks. A single DVD+R Double Layer can also hold six hours of VHS-quality video or more than 120 hours of MP3 audio.

DVD+R Compatibility
There are two types of recordable DVD disks available. Almost all recent DVD players and drives can handle both burned DVD-R and DVD+R disks, but some older players can only read one format or the other. It is important to check your player's manual to determine which DVD type it supports.

8X Write Speed and Organic Dye: Built for Fast, Accurate Writing
AmazonBasics DVD+R Double Layer disks enable fast write speeds from 2.4X to 8X for quick, clean data transfer. (To take full advantage of these speeds, your DVD burner must burn at speeds of at least 8X. Consult your computer or DVD burner product manual for this information.)

An 8X transfer speed translates to 10.56 MB/s, which means that you can burn a full disk in less than 14 minutes. The organic dye used on the write side of these DVD+Rs ensures stable writing at high speeds for reliable, accurate finished disks.

AmazonBasics: Quality Products at Low Prices
AmazonBasics is a collection of consumer electronic "basics" created by combining quality and low prices for an overall focus on value.

Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging
This AmazonBasics product features Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging that is recyclable. It comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, or wire ties. The packaging is designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife, and it will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. Products with Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box, saving on resources and reducing waste. In addition, the packaging materials that we do use are easily and frequently recycled, composted, or reused by our customers, and all the inks and dyes are biodegradable.

Warranty and Helpful Hints
These disks are backed by an AmazonBasics 1-year limited warranty. To view the full AmazonBasics warranty, click here. If you are having trouble with these disks, click here for the AmazonBasics CD/DVD Helpful Hints Guide [PDF].

What's in the Box
Spindle of 50 8.5 GB 8X DVD+R Double Layer disks and warranty card.

Customer Reviews

Good Solid Media
Dual Layer DVD's are harder and harder to find. It's almost impossible to find them on sale anywhere. I was excited when Amazon introduced this Baiscs program and included Dual Layer discs in the mix.

The discs do not disappoint. A spindle of 50 arrived in a nice neat cardboard box. The packaging was easy to open, except for destroying the packing slip while opening. The spindle is a 'cake box' type, and it seals up very nicely. The outer shrink wrap is clear plastic. The DVD+R DL you see in the picture is a paper wrapper around the discs inside. Fortunately the DVD+ DL words are printed large and in dark black ink on a silver background on each disc, and the cake box is crystal clear. If this hadn't been the case, it would be extremely difficult to identify which discs are inside (I have spindles of four different single layer manufacturers, and two other dual layers).

The first question I had, do they burn at 8X and do they work? Well a good solid resounding yes they do burn at the published speed. They do work well. They are not a magic silver bullet. I have a DVD player that refuses to play any dual layer discs; I've tried Sony, Verbatim, Memorex, and now Amazon Basics - none work at all on this player. However, the Basics disc does play in players that are happy with dual layer discs.

The critical question everyone should have on their mind - the manufacturer. Pretty simple to fire up DVD Identifier; and voila RicohJPND01, revision 067. That should make everyone fairly happy. They fall exactly in the class of DVD blanks with Sony and Memorex - dual layers (the Sonys I have were moserbaerIndiaMBIG101's), not the first class grouping.

I'm very pleased with these discs. Any time I can find Dual Layer discs for under one dollar each, I'm happy. These fit into a very sweet spot of media quality and price per disc. If you need dual layers, this is a good place to purchase.

September 28, 2009 - Burn number 10, not a single flaw yet. No failures, no disc problems. For the record, my two DVD burners are under 1 year old, with current firmware, and are both manufactured by TSST corportation, Models S203N and S223Q, Samsung burners. Product links for my burners: 20X DVDRW DVD Burner - Black SATA, and Samsung SH-S223Q/BEBS Internal Half Height Supermulti SATA 22X Lightscribe DVD-Writable Drive.

Marginal quality
Mission: Backup nearly 8 GB of photos

Tools: Roxio Creator 2010 and a Sony DRU-830A drive

First attempt: Failed part way through write--"media error"

Second attempt: Failed part way through write--"media error"

Third attempt: Failed part way through write--"media error"

Concerned that I might have a problem other than the disks, I popped in a +R DL of another brand. Wrote without a problem.

Tried a fourth Amazon disk--"media error"

Up to this point I'd let Roxio default to the 8x the disks are rated for. I set the speed at 4x, and at that speed I was able to write (and subsequently read) a disk!

I then tried 6x--"media error"

To make certain the 4x success wasn't a fluke, I wrote another copy at that speed. Another success.

Based on my initial experience, these disks will work at 4x, but not at the rated 8x, in my system. Given that I'm using a common software package and a decent drive I believe the quality of these disks is marginal.

Wonderful
I ordered a pack to try these out since they are fairly new and there inst a lot of information on them. as stated in another reviwe the media code on these as of this date are Ricoh, which are not great, but there are worse, mine were made in china.

that being said, they worked great, i had no problem burning them in my liteon drive.

re: xbox360 backups, they work, i tested these on a liteon drive and a benq drive, both read these disc wonderfully without a single hitch, i usually burn at 4x, but i burned a 360 backup at 8x just to test and it has been reading perfectly no problems at all.

at this price point i can say i am very happy with this product.