Wednesday 1 July 2009

Amazon #26: Verbatim 43549 DVD-R, 16x, 4.7GB, 100 Pack

4 stars - link

Amazon has requested that I write a review of this product, and I am only too happy to oblige - although I don't really have too much to say about them at the moment, as the majority of them are empty!
I will try and let you know what I think of the seven I've already used though, so I hope this will be good enough for all you amazonians out there.

1. This was a test burn DVD, that I made to test the new Verbatim DVD ares that I bought. It contained a text file of the word TESTTESTTEST. It was a succcess!

2. Number 2 was an exact copy of the first DVD mentioned above, that I seemed to have burned by mistake. Although the DVD burned successfully, due to human error I can only call this one a failure.

3. This was a picture slideshow of my wife's bus trip round the Pennines with members of her woman's club. Thankfully I didn't have to sit through the whole thing while it was being presented, eh gents?!?!?!? It burned successfully.

4. Volume 2 of the aforementioned slideshow mentioned above. Again, success!

5. Yet another DVD of the TESTTESTTEST test disc, as I wanted to be absolutely sure it was working. It succeeded!

6. This one is currently somewhere under the rear garden hedge, a few feet from where it joins onto the garage. Mr Weston's cat from a few doors down was hovering around by the bean patch, and I was anxious to scare him away before the little beast had a chance to do whatever it was it was going to do. The DVD stack was the nearest thing to hand, so I picked one off the top and hurled it at the little furry behemoth, catching it a third of the way down it's spine - needles to say, it certainly did the trick! It is still there as I am reticent as the sight of blood, but I still call it a success even if the good people at Verbatim never intended it to be used thus.

7. A kind reader sent me a video file of Ralph Bakshi's animated Lord of the Rings, so I burned it onto a DVD - it burned successfully, but the filmed leaves me just as baffled as the original film trilogy.

I hope this is of use - I will endeavour to add further reports in the comments section in future times.