I got my 2 dvd-r's this morning in perfect condition.
Tested a movie (Dr Dolittle 2) and a ps2 game (Vexx)

Burning.
Burnt fine without any problems on my pioneer 104 (firmware 1.40) using Prassi Primo Dvd

Playback The movie played perfect, (no skipping or anything) in both my 2 standalone players. It even played great in my ps2.
The ps2 game also works perfect

Gereral Thoughts
It seems like this is the best Bulkpaq dvd-r by a long way. Lets hope the retail version is just as good, with a reasonable price to match.

Final PointIf the price is ok I will be swapping to this dvd-r in the future.
Look forward to testing more brands soon.

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recieved disks this morning. burned 1 movie & 1 XBOX game both at 4x on my A05
Both disks came out perfect.

Movie (Xmen 2 Screener) tested on:

Yamada 2100 DVD Player
KISS DP450 DVD Player
SONY DAVS550 DVD HOME CINEMA SYSTEM
PIONEER DCS303
PHILIPS LX8000
PIONEER HC 51S
YAMAHA DVX80
XBOX
PS2
Laptop with samsung dvd drive

Disk was picked up quickly on all machines and ran to the end with no problems. Chapter skipping was fast and trouble free
(no im not rich i manage a home cinema store)

Xbox game (Splinter Cell)

Worked first time on mine and 2 of my friends modified Xbox's

Conclusion

Great disks, Excellent price, what more can i say well done bulkpaq
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I got 2 bulkpaq disks this morning and i will be testing later on today if i have the time, or in the week. They arived in Mint condition, not a stracth or mark on them. They are an orangey colour, write at 4x.

Thankyou

cya

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Received both discs this morning, thanks for letting me test.

My hardware is Athlon XP with Pioneer 105 with firmware 1.00

Burned first disc at 4x with Stomp Recordmax, 4.3gb movie, took 15 mins or so - Plays perfect on my Pioneer 343 set top player, and my Pacific 1002 set top player. Previous bulkpaq have a tendancy to have reading problems on these 2 players.

Burned the second disc at 4x (again 15mins or so) also with Stomp Recordmax - PS2 Game - Plays perfectly on my very fussy PS2 (one of the original batch) - it hates all disks usually. No skipping which is what I usually expierence.

The disk seems like a winner here, so shall be buying them I think.

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My disks arrived this morning.

Disks burned using Pioneer 105 with the firmware 1.00 and prassi primo dvd .

On the first dvdr i burned a copy of defjam vendetta for ps2 xt 4x, played it in my v3 ps2 and it booted first time with no problems, played for well over 20 mins and playing with no problems at all, very impressed.

The 2nd dvdr i used to backup xmen 1.5 again burned at 4x speed. Just tried it on my dansai 1010 and xbox and played perfectly on both.

So all in all i am very impressed with these dvdr's, nice colour as well.

Thanks for lettin me test them

gjac1

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got both my discs today in mint condition. bit bright the colour.

AMD XP 2000 CPU
PIONEER 105
256MB DDR
100 GIG HD
WINXP SP1

burnt 2 movies i had on my harddrive both 4.36 gig. i used smartripper to copy the files to my pc then used DVD2ONE to shrink them.

Used prassi primo dvd to burn a copy of harry potter2 retail ,a full 4.36 gig in 15 mins. playback and chapter skip was perfect on my philips 622.

second disc burnt a copy of 1 hour photo again 4.36. playback again perfect. i also checked all the extras and these were fine.

these discs are superb and at 99p each i will be buying a few hundred of these. i will wait to see everybody else's review.

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Okay, first off, a big thank-you to Bulkpaq for letting us try these discs out.

Impressions
Discs arrived this morning. The jewel case mine arrived in was smashed up, but the discs were fine, so I guess it served its purpose..!

Orange.

Hmmm... Better than the nuclear yellow of the Datawrites, but am wondering what all of the budget-DVD media people have against white, grey and silver. But if the disc is good, I can look past the printing.

ADVDInfo output as follows:
00 6A 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 F7 0E 0B .J...@....R.....
77 88 70 00 03 50 52 49 4E 43 4F 00 04 00 00 00 W.P..PRINCO.....

System
My tests were both full-disc video (>4.6"Gb") on my Athlon XP2000+ / Gigabyte GA-7VRXP system running XP with SP1, a Sony DRU-500A writer, and using Stomp Recordnow Max as the burning software (in wizard mode for compatibility with Sony standalones).

Burning
First disc started out fine, no problems, but then unexpectedly dropped to what I suppose was 2x part way through the write (at about the 15% mark). Burn continued, and concluded in approximately 25 minutes. This is the first time that I have seen this issue with my writer, though I have read about it on the forum of course.

So, I upgraded the firmware on my drive from 1.0g (which it was using) to 2.0e as available on the Sony web site ( 500a20e1.zip ).

The second burn went fine with this new (new to me, anyway) 2.0e firmware - 4x all the way, concluding in just over 16 minutes, just as I would expect for a completely full disc.

Conclusions
Both discs play fine with no breakup right to the end of the disc, and no delays in menu access, in all of the players that I have access to, including my PS2 and a relatively picky Aiwa XD DV370, though this player is also happy with the Datawrite Yellows, which are also Princo.

I'm pretty impressed with these - 99p for a 4x disc that seems quite compatible is a good deal as far as I am concerned, though I do have, like many others I am sure, lingering doubts about batch consistency, and durability of the disc over time.

Still, it's good to see some 4x media below a pound a pop, and I think that I might even buy some of these the next time I make an order.

Cheers,
Spook.
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not sure on the color ????????

anyway burnt both discs at 4 speed on an ao5 firmware 1.30 ritek 24all
used primo dvd 2.0

burnt 1 movie in 15 minutes and 1 xbox game in 14 minutes

movie tested on a bush 2020 smart dvd 2000-played perfectly on both chapters skips fine

xbox loaded quickly no skipping in fmv (genma onimusha)

this disc is excellent and at a very good price

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I received the 2 discs this morning, Saturday and after seeing the colour liked them instantly. The label is easy to write on with a marker and the matt finish ensures it shows up clearly. The appearance of the disk overall is excellent, the edges of the disc are smooth and clean cut. The dye is purple and evenly distributed. First impression on looks is excellent, if you do not like the orange on the label, you cannot see it when it is playing anyway.

Tested first disk in Pioneer A04 and second in A05.
Playback in LG, Toshiba and Pioneer DVD players in PCs and Sony DVP-S735D standalone player in the sitting room.

Decided to try to burn a problem DVD film that had been sitting on the hard drive for a few weeks. It plays faultlessly from the hard drive. Used latest Nero version to burn it with the A04. Did a test and burn at 2x but it failed as usual, then tried a 1x burn which although took almost an hour and three quarters, finally succeeded. Tried to play it back in all the PC dvd players but it said the disk was either damaged or dirty. In the Sony in the sitting room it played faultlessly right to the end. So no complaints.

Burnt Spiderman on to the second disk with the A05 and Nero. It completed quickly and easily in about 20 minutes, unfortunately I left it to burn while I had lunch, so I am not sure of the exact time. Playback was a little hit and miss on the PC DVD players. The Toshiba and Pioneer both stopped playing it after a few minutes, again disk damaged or dirty. The LG played it faultlessly as did the Sony in the sitting room. As the DVD players in the PCs are quite old I put this down to a compatibility problem with the players and not the disks. Both disks played back fine in the A04 and A05.

Overall I am happy with the results, as long as the price is right then I will certainly be buying these. The problem DVD on the hard disk had produced many coasters while trying to get it on disk. I tried many different makes and speeds but always with the same result, even at 1x. So these disks were able to at last give me it on disk. I think that these are one of the best disks I have used and cannot wait for them to come out.

Many thanks to Bulkpaq for the chance to try these disks, and to the organisers for the opportunity to partake in the test.

Final note. I can only rate these disks 10/10 on the performance of these 2 disks.


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well got my discs the other day
burnt on 105 fw 1.30

first discs- 4x - ps2 game - played great no stops, no skips, quick loading and this game is heavy on loading as it constantly streams off audio !

second discs- 2x - film 4gig ! - played no problem on my ps2 or my standalone pioneer player.

thx for the test ! happily gonna get some more now at 99p u simply cant grumble !
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Thanks for the test discs, arrived this morning.

Nice looking disc, seems quite a thick sturdy disc too. Now in the past I have used Bulkpaq and as a result now stay well clear, will this disc change my views.... here we go.

PC Spec
Athlon 1600
1GB Ram
2 x 60GB HD
Samsung Reader
Sony DVD Writer

Burnt one movie at 4x in Sony DRU-500 and one PS2 games at 2x in the same drive.

Both completed well, movie was tested in the following devices...

Pioneer Standalone
Alba Standalone
Sony Standalone
Samsung DVD
Pioneer DVD
Pioneer DVDR

All worked fine right until the end of the disc and it loaded really well in the standalone too - skipping to chapters was nice and crisp also.
I will have to test the disc in a few players i know hate Princo stuff just to see so will edit the post later.

The PS2 game loaded ok, it wasn't lightning but nothing is in my PS2.

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okay, got my disks yeaterday in nice nick,,
not a bad colour at all a lot better in person than on the web as it were,

my set up

xp 2000
512mb pc133
xp - pro

a04
a03

dvd players
reoc A3
x-box ver 1.0
ps2 ver 4
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both disk burned at 2x
the first disk was a copy of red dragon shrunk with dvd2one, so a full dvd,
watched the movie last night fast chapter skip no freezing or blocking,
seem very good for films, played in dvd player and consoles without a problem.


second disk i did a copy of toca race driver for x-box, worked perfect
movies were smooth game loaded fast seemed to be no problems at all.

i then did nero cd speed on both disks both disk produced a smooth curve
on my pioneer 104 dvd-rom, with hardly any spikes,

conclushion.
seem like a very good disk the overall finish of the disk is bot bad at all
better than previous bulkpaq, but on a side note was gonna burn one of these
in my A03 but the A03 would not even pick the disk up so if your an A03 user
no good for you, for everyone else seem like a good disk, mind you at a pound
same price as ritek G3s and i have to say call me an old stickler but i would
have to go for the G3s at the same price,,

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got mins this morning


my test equipment

pioneer 105 with the latest rpc1 2x 4 all firmware



tested on

ps2
bush 2004
yamada dvd player
pafic 1002
pafic 750

i did my 1st burn at 4x with the movie two weeks notice burnt this as image 1st onto the hard drive then started the burn at 4x was burned using prassi done in less then 15mins so top job

i took the disk and tried it 1st in my ps2 chipped with messaih version 7 no problems whatsoever played a treat i used the fast forward option at 4x and it went through to the end no problem, i then watched the last half hour and not a problem

then on to the bush 2004 which played again with no problems at all

also tried it in the 2 paffic players i have access to also my new yamada dvd player all of them played it with no problems or skipping etc


the next was moto gp3 for the ps2 which i done on the fly in the duplictor with no problems at all burned great at 4 speed and read back with no issues

then tried it in my ps2 no probs

as for the disks the color is quite nice and alllows you to write on to nicely witha suitable pen

i always never had a problem with bulkpack and since the changed the dye trype to princo i think they have got better

all i can say if the prices is below the 1.00 they all say they will be i will buy them

and thanks again for letting me try them



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Ok first things first, a big thank you to all involved with sending out the discs as you just cant beat a freebie many thanks.

test system

1.7xp
abit mobo
512 ddr
xp pro os
teac dv-w50e

as like some of the people here my discs did come in a pretty smashed case but luckily the discs where untouched after deciding what would be the best test for the discs i decided on doing a backup of my original futurama series 1. I left both discs to a very big 4.2 gig so that the data would go pretty close to the outside of the dvdr. both discs burnt great and at full 4x so it was done in next to no time. both discs played great in my ps2, xbox and pacific pdvd100 standalone and infact was watched all the way through on the standalone player with no glitches in sight.
I am a little dubvious of bulkpaq discs due to the quality issues as one batch will burn flawelessly whislt the next batch could give you many bad burns. I have placed an order for 100 discs from svp so hopefully i will not encounter any of the problems mentioned previously. on the whole though both discs where great and had a very fast seek time on my pc.

keep to the same kind of coating and these will be superb discs at a superb price

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Got my disc's this morning and I must say I like the colour (Im getting fed up of the green 2X disc's). First impresions were that it didn't look like a cheep disc and my expections were high.
First up was a movie (Shallow Hal). Nero recognised this as a 4x straight away and ripped through the burn in about 15 Mins. The buffer indicator was working overtime, shooting from 14% -98% in the last 2 mins of the burn and I was worried that this was gonna be another coaster.
However I stuck it in my Toshiba 220e and played flawlessly, chapter skip, FF and boot up were all quick and I was even impresed with the picture quality.
Next up was my Narita DVD/TV combo, I bought this from Safeway about 2 months ago and it's very fussy when it comes to DVD-R's. No probs, boot up was a little slower but no other issues.
Lastly Xbox V1.1. This Xbox didnt like my green 2X Bulkpaq's so it was interesting to see whether it would like the 4x.
Again no probs fast boot up and chaper skip, no skipping at the credits.
Considering SVP state that these may have problems with video playback I think this disc performed very well. I also ran it through nero DVD speed. Here are my results.
Nero DVD Speed

12 April 2003 - 18:18:12

Drive information
Vendor PIONEER
Product DVD-RW DVR-105
Firmware Version 1.21

Disc information
Type DVD-R
Length 4.54 GB

Test results

Transfer rate
Average 4.32 X
Start 2.63 X
End 5.72 X
Reading type CAV

Seek Times
Random Seek 134 ms
1/3 Seek 146 ms
Full Seek 277 ms

CPU usage
1X 2 %
Max Speed 3 %

Interface
Burst Rate 20.04 MB/s

Spin Up/Down Time
Spin Up Time 0.01 sec
Spin Down Time 2.21 sec

Disc Eject Time 1.22 sec
Disc Load Time 14.85 sec
Disc Recognition Time 0.01 sec

Next disc was Xbox game. Halo

Not so many checks I can do to this only that it booted up as fast as my original. No skips in the FMV sequances, played it for about an hour in deathmach mode and didn't encounter any freeze's or abnormalitys.

All in all I am very pleased with my results and will be ordering these as soon as I'm out of the 2X.
Thanks to everyone involved in letting me test these disc's

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