Eproformance:



Here are independent test reviews of eProformance 4.7gb DVD-R, as submitted by members at <a href="http://www.mediaforums.net/" target"_blank">mediaforums.net


Chodax/Daoc
Mine arrived this morning and is burning an xbox backup as we speak, LET THE GAMES BEGIN! I like the pakaging on these, they do look like a quality disc and there was not a single micro spec of dust on the writing surface which always bodes well. I will post back later and give you a heads up on how the disc fared.


Griff
Same here. The quality looks good, looks a bit like the Imation's, though hopefully more reliable. I'm preparing a high bitrate DVD movie to see what this disk can do.


Tiblin
Mine arrived this morning. Look like a nice disk, getting a movie sorted out ready for burning

Update : The disk itself looks to be very good quality, no crap or scratches on the disk. The case it came in had some damage to the inner spindle but this could have been done during posting.

Update : Tested the disk in the 104 using Nero 5.5.9.4 burning Evolution with one of the special features swapped for a trailer to make it fit. Burned without issues, but all disks have so far.

Put the disk in ASUS 16x DVD-Rom drive, disk reads very fast. Movie plays perfectly in PowerDVD XP. Skipping through the movie gives a very rapid seek time.

Plays in the Sharp DV-600 too, but with difficutly, this drive has not had an easy read of any disk so far so this was no supprise.

I would rate this on par with the Whitelabel disks which i currently use for movie backups. Hard to really judge from a single burn though.


Tezzi
Got mine this morning at 5.30am... I'm glad i'm a postman sometimes I'm just preparing to buy a PS2 game with it!!


Drfruitbat
Ok, arrived this morning, first impressions good, nice looking disc,
I do prefer this plain silver look as opposed to the 'white label' style
as on the Datasafe Gen 3's.

checking the writing side, nice smooth lines where the dye meets the clear centre, Datasafe Gen 3's are more jagged, but these disks are comparable to the Traxdata (although the dye colour to the
naked eye is the same as Datasafe Gen 3's)

Pioneer A03 writer accepted disc and PrassiPrimo DVD pretty much instantly recognised as blank DVD-R (some discs take forever to be recognised).

Burnt a full DVD rip of Romeo is Bleeding. Checked disc after burning, there was 1 blemish in the writing surface.

Watched movie in Pioneer 717 standalone player, disc recognised straight away as DVD as continued to play without defect.

Checked again in PS2 (chapter flicked) again flawless playback.
And again (chapter flicked) in PC using Power DVD - no faults

After watching the movie I then used fast forward and went through the whole movie again, I have found that on poor media the player 'loses the plot' after a little while, however there were no such problems with this disc.

EDIT - I had another of these discs floating around so as a further test I burnt 'Enemy at the Gates' (DTS) This time the dye had no visible marks in the burn (unlike first test disc) again playback was flawless in all players no blocks or artifacts present. Permanent fast forward again showed no problems.

Summary.

If E Proformance can get their prices to around the <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/”>Bulkpaq or Datasafe Gen 3 price level then they will gain a lot of customers, me
included.

Is it worth the extra 25pish to buy these ? tough call, I have tried two discs and been happy with both, but I have also tried
plenty of Datasafe Gen 3's and been happy with those.

Good Discs though and definately an alternative if my usual discs are unavailable !


Nemasis 2002
hi i got my disk this morning and what can i say filled it up with 4gig of music and works like a dream works on every dvd drive i have got and even in my dvd player what can i say lets have more of theese disks please WHERE can i order them From?????


Riptoff
received disc this morning-first impressions...a very nice,tidy well presented case....clean uncluttered disc appearance and nice even dye colour no bleeding.. using prassi and my a03 dropped a movie with no problems

playback was faultless on my SMART DVD 2000 of which i base all my tests on 'cause its a right funny b^&*&&d when it comes to blanks recognised quickly,chapter skip was quick with no lag in the catch up..fast forward and review superb

very happy with the results


Banzai_uk
received my disc this morning. made a PS2 backup (Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams) using the standard equipment & routine (PIII 800 Mhz, 512Mb RAM, Pioneer A03/103, NT4 SP6a, PrimoDVD 2.0).

i've had toruble with this particular game with laser read problems on my ps2 under gen3 Datasafes l8r in the game but it still works (loading times are a little longer). It works A1 on verbs so i was expecting something good from these Eproformance. boy was i disappointed. the disc just stalled & refused to load the part i was having trouble on previoulsy. totally unplayable.

closer inspection of the writing surface revealed a couple of minor blisters. not impressed.

maybe i received a duff but based on my test i shall not be investing any further time pursuing this as a choice of media. i'll stick with gen3 dsafes until something better comes along.


Scoop
Recieved disc this morning and luckily had a Rip of Lord of the rings ready to burn. All 2 hours 56 minutes of it.

This is the 1st disc I've ever been able to burn to 99.9% of capacity and it played to the end without a glitch on my Phillips 762.

Excellent DvD-R.

Who can beat this disc for quality.

Ps I'll add to this post as I burn some of the ones I've bought, just in case the are not consistent.


Doory
Got mine this morning pretty much same feelings as most
well presented disk looks class (prefer silver to coloured disks) burnt 13th warrior with no probs played sound in sony Davs300 took longer to load
using samsung 709 but inall pretty sound disk!


Chodax/daoc
TEST : XBOX TONY HAWK 3 PAL ON ENIGMAH FINAL MOD

DRIVE : PIONEER 104 (UDMA OFF)
SOFTWARE : PRASSI 2.0 (BUILD 2.0.800)
SIZE OF CONTENT : 3.2GB (BUT PADDED OUT WITH DUMMY FILES TO 4.55GB)

The disc arrived in excellent condition with nice packaging. No blemishes or dust on the media. The silvery finish on the upper surface looks good and the writing surface showed no defects. The dye distribution was extremely even and no bleeding was evident. Prassi recognised the blank very quickly and burned the backup in just under an hour without delay or error.

After burning I checked the writing surface for defects, no blisters to be seen. I then inserted the disc into a Liteon x16 DVD-ROM to confirm a good burn, the drive recognised the disc within 5 seconds and Win2k gave a directory listing of the disc effortlessly.

Fired the XBOX up and booted to the dashboard. Inserted disc then waited, disc was recognised quickly and the game logo was on screen after 15 seconds. Video playback in the game was flawless and switching to some of the different extras video worked well and flawlessly. Switched XBOX off and then did a cold boot with disc in the drive, boot time was marginally longer but playback of all videos and audio during gameplay was perfect.

CONCLUSION :

A very good disc for my XBOX load speeds are much faster than the Datasafe DVD-RW and a few seconds faster than any other disc I have tried so far. The disc is pleasent on the eye and seems to be reliable for the XBOX. I can't 100% recommend this disc yet as one disc is not enough to base a large purchase on, however I was very pleased with this disc from start to finish. The game has run in attract mode for 6 hours without error, something no other disc under £4 has been able to do. Nice job Eproformance, a good disc at a resonable price in quality packaging.


Big pops
Got my discs this morning.

Hardware used
PC with Pioneer 104. Pioneer DV-340. Pioneer DV-444. Toshiba SD-2109. Sony Playstation 2 (V5)

First Impressions:
The disc came professionally packaged in a jewel case, and a quick look at the disc, it looks like a high quality product. Flip it over, and look at the writing side, and you'd swear you were looking at a gen3 Datasafe silver, or white top.
A quick look at the pre-recorded information lead-in, shows this:
Code:
00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 8A 0D 14 .B...@....P.....
88 88 80 00 03 50 52 4F 44 49 53 00 04 43 47 30 .....PRODIS..CG0
31 00 00 00 05 CC C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1...............

Which exactly matches a gen3 Datasafe (non 2x one).

I will be burning this disc as soon as i've prepared some source material.

Burning and testing
After working away for a week, I finally got around to burning the disc. I prepared a copy of Iron Maiden's Rock In Rio, but with a twist. Seeing as one of the guitarists (Janick Gers) completely ruins 2 perfectly good songs by 'doubling' the guitar solo. So, i decided to edit his garbage playing out, and overdub the other guitarist (Adrian Smith, who wrote the solo's in question) over Mr. Gers. What can I say, it sounds fantastic now. After re-authoring all the animated menus (thanx Yohudi), ended up with a title set of 4.26GB. I then loaded up Stomp Recordnow Max, and burned with the speed set to max. The disc burned at 1x, and i removed it from the burner, checked it for blemishes (none visable) and stuck it in my Pioneer DV-340. Skipped through a few chapters - nice and fast access - I got the the last one, and watched it for any sign of skipping. There was none (i'm pleased to say). Next, the PS2. Same procedure as above, but i found skipping at the end of the disc. In my 444, it plays perfectly. The tosh won't touch it, but that is yet to play a DVD-R, so i'm not suprised.

Overall
It could have been a bad disc, but as we only got one, i'll never know. They're better than the Bulkpaq polo ones. Not as good as the original Gen3 Datasafe (the silver ones are still the champions), traxdata's, white label, or ICE white top. Obviously, you may get different results with your equipment, as always.


Vampire
Received mine this morning and my first impressions were a nice looking disc, quite impressive looking.

Unrar'ed Onimusha2, burnt@2x and played perfectly in my Messiah'ed PS2, nice load times and no stutters in cut scenes....


Wilt
Got my blank disc this morning....

Used Prassi 2.0, Pioneer 104 oem firmware 1.20.

Copied a PS2 game.
Works a treat. All music and FMV plays flawlessly.
I've yet to test a disc that i'd not buy.

Just ordered some.


Yorkie984
Got the disc this morning. Front of case was cracked but that's most likeley down to the post office. No physical problems with the disc and very clean and dust free (the ONE advantage of sealed, jewel cased discs). Nice label side writing surface.

Burned one of my own converted from Divx movies which I know to have worked fine before on other brands.

Dansai 1010
Played fine, movie started about 2 seconds after insertion. No skips.

PS2 V5.
No picture (down to being an NTSC film) altough my PS2 usually plays NTSC no problem. The sound played fine, no skips. I do not beleive the missing picture was down to the disc but more likely the PS2 having a fit as it does go through periods where it wont play NTSC movies.

Panasonic A160 (the real test!!)

Took only 2 insertions to get the player to recognise the disc. This player is becoming progressively more and more temperamental as time goes on as it is over 3 yrs old and has seen a great deal of use. Some times takes 4-5 insertions to get it to play a disc (and occasionally refuses to play real DVDs) so 2 is good going. Once it recognised it, played virtually flawlesly with only the occasional freeze every 10 mins or so. This is as good as it gets with this player really so this disc is faring well.

Conclusion.

Technically this disc is as good as any other in it's class and better than most. On a par I would say with the Datasafe G3.
HOWEVER I will not be buying these at this stage for 2 reasons:-

1. Price..£1.09 is around 20p too much. If they want to compete with Datasafe, they need to be on a par with the price.

2. Packaging..These discs need to come either on their own (@approx 87p) or in a DVD case (@approx 99p). Jewel cases are a waste of time and seeing that I just bin them, they can't be good for the environment. Also they greatly increase their shipping weight so ordering these would cost me a fortune in postage as opposed to bare discs.


Mike.P®
Mine arrived this morning.
Nice to see it in some sort of case for a change..keeps it nice and clean.

Anyway, did a multi film conversion using The Animal & We Were Soldiers, took the disk up to just over 4 gig.
Played fine in my Pioneer 444 & Scan 2000 with no breaking up at all.

Got to say thought that I have the same result with White Label disks which are 25% cheaper (no case though) but as dvd cases are approx 12p each I can't see any reason to change...although having the disk nice and clean from the outset could sway my opinion.


Chodax/Caod
Mike.P® wrote:
Got to say thought that I have the same result with White Label disks which are 25% cheaper (no case though) but as dvd cases are approx 12p each I can't see any reason to change...although having the disk nice and clean from the outset could sway my opinion.

Thats pretty much my feeling too, it is worth a few extra pence if the disc is perfect everytime and it looks like a quality product.


Bigup
burnt MGS2 for v5 ps2 messiah mod,

FMV worked perfect, loaded up promptly and played perfect aswell, no aguements with this media,

thumbs up!


MartG
Got my disc today and done Fast & the Furious with my 104 using nero plays great on my dansai nice disc will be spoilt for choice now with the gen 3 being a decent disc to.


Steve00021
Disk arrived this morning, Very high quality looking disc.
Set up to burn a full 2hr movie(pioneer AO4 firmware 1.20), Burning software Vob Instant 6.

Disc burned fine and no visable marking in the dye. Next the test, Player pioneer 444 and pioneer 530. Both machines played this disc perfectly with no skipping at all even right up to the very edge.

Tell me if I am wrong but these look very much like the same disc that Datasafe use for there cream top gen3 disc. even made by the same company Prodisc.


Mel349
I was fairly excited when I got up this morning, far later than I should have done, to find a gleaming brown envelope containing the new eproformance disk. I was quite impressed with the picture on the front of the box, which makes it seam like this disk would be perfect for video – and the legend "Entertainment Media” along the bottom confirmed my suspicions J

For test media I used ‘Without A Clue’ which was released by Carlton video, and is only 3.8 gig. I always use this film because it’s better than having to spend 24 hours ripping and preparing a new disk.

It burnt without any major problems but taking the disk out of the machine I noticed several blemishes on the surface – not present when using most of the disks I’ve tried. This could have been due to the burner or just a one off incident so I’ll be interested to see what everyone else has to say.

Because I am an idiot and love buying things, I have 10 DVD players at hand and the disk was tested in all. Of those tested the only problems seamed to be with the PS2 and an old Sony, which both failed to recognise the disk. I put this down to the blemishes as it worked in all of the others. Of all players tested the X-Box recognised the disk the quickest – good old Microsoft (never thought I’d be saying that you know.)

So does the disk live up to the boasts of the company? Does it leave the competition standing in the water? Well – no. It’s a very nice disk and if the price was dropped then I think it would become a favourite among casual burners but if the blemish problem is widespread then this is something that would put off professional users.

The back of the case boasts Lifetime Durability, full compatibility and superior quality and on the last two points it has performed favourably. I wouldn’t say this is the most compatible disk I’ve tried but it does give most of the others a run for their money and the quality of the video was not lost when skipping fast forwarding or rewinding during playback. As for lifetime durability then I’ll let you know when I’m dead, but in the meantime you might want to consider sticking with your favourite disk for the time being, unless this one is cheaper.


Ferkh10
backed up a movie using my pioneer a03. Worked without problems at all on both stand alone dvd player and ps2.
an excellent disc.



Sigsphotos
Got mine yesterday and burned it last night on my Panasonic LF-D311 using Nero to back up a 4Gb movie.

No problems at all - it reads perfectly on all my internal DVD-ROMs, as well as on my fussy Sony DAV-S300 stand-alone player.

Quite impressive, on a par with the Datasafe Gen 3, although I like the plain writing surface of the Datasafe better than the eProformance.

However, let's see what the price is, as there is some very good competition out there (aren't we lucky!).

To summarise: Nice disc, how much?


Welshborn63
just received my disk copy music to it and it went very well and can play it on all my player


Triggerh4ppy
Got mine this morning burnt scooby doo (movie) on it wit my pioneer 104 and had a blemish. But i got it to write at 2x wich is great.

I triedthe disk in my H&B 5415s and it worked beutifully.

Also tried it in my ps2 also worked flawlessly.

So its a thumbs up to eporformanne.

will be buying some of these.


Lesley
burner 104 - used smartripper - spruce-up and prassi

did a back up of a dvd movie, full disc to test the playing edge. prassi immediately saw this as a blank disc which with other discs can take a while sometimes.

tested in ps2 - H & B - 104 - and both dvd rom drives. All picked up the disc within secs, played flawless on all players - no skipping or jumping at all.

very nice disc, compares well with the data-save gen 3 I usually use.

thanks for letting me test


Tezmitch
Mine arrived this morning, Thanks for the opportunity to try them!
I used it for a much needed data backup (just over 4GB) on a 104 using Nero. Very good quality disc from what I can see. I'll definitley consider buying these discs.


Matthew12345
got my disk this morning, burning a copy of minority report in nero in my A04, the disk looked pretty smart and no scratchs on the disk. The movie burnt as usual and plays flawlessly in my dansai dvd player, the burner, and my lg 16x dvd. FF is very good and usually i get some jumping after ff for a few seconds but worked perfect.
I would recomend these disks to anyone as good disks, but whether or not i buy them depends on the price.
Wonder how good their cdr are?

thanks a lot for letting me test this disk
matthew


Cal_G_UK
Burned a full backup of the Parol Officer last night, no bleeding at all.
Disk played through perfect on a V5 PS2, an Xbox, PC DVD ROM drive using Power DVD. Also played through perfect on an Alba DVD114 (not my machine )

Think i might be buying a few of these, I personally prefer the jewel case as standard, the disk is near enough guaranteed to arrive in perfect condition. Spindles are a nightmare

Cheers for the test

Cal_G

(Edit. Just watched the credits which i never done last time, it stutters about 5 times, i change what i said, not impressed at all. Will not be buying these disk ever unless they improve. Even at 99p i dont see the point when Datasafe gen 3 and white label are cheaper and more reliable)


Griff
Visually these disks remind me of the Imations. The jewel case is standard CD, which suggests a sensible price point – what is the price of these DVDs

Anyway, I put together a compilation of videos (Re:Covered on BBC Choice) captured from the Nova-t, which are high quality non-DVD compliant mpeg2’s. Transcoded the mpegs using TMPGenc with a CQ setting of 100, max bitrate of 8Mb/s, 10 bit precision and motion search set to highest. Burned the DVD using Nero 5.5.8.0, in a Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW

The resultant DVD played flawlessly on a Pioneer DV 717, with a max bitrate of ~9Mb/s as reported by the DVD player. Also played the DVD on a variety of DVD ROM players, again no problem.

Overall, a good quality disk, which compares favourably with my preferred choice – Datasafe Gold Label.


Seanmast
got the disc and it looks good as well as burnt without fault- no complaints so far with this- probably need to try out in various modes before definitive view though.


Odo
I recieved my sample today used it to back up a film
heres what I found

Not too bad but do I need a firmware update? It only writes at 1x this is doing a backup of region 1 movie (the one) takes forever is it my pioneer or is it the disks other media eg Datasafe will write a 2x after burning though the playback in my player seems fine no jitters or blockiness so overall not bad I spose

btw jewel case is a good idea as long as this dosen't affect the price too much

Just tried it in the ps2 and it seems to playback fine there too there is blockiness but i think thats the hardware


Ukrevrend
I got mine on wednesday 14 aug, haven't had a chance to burn a back up yet. I prefer my disc to be packaged in a sealed jewel case, so thumbs up to that, all though the case was broken once I opened it. Checked disc, no blemishes, no marks, looks a bit like a Datasafe Gen 3, the dye I mean, will edit this post after my burn.


Yohudi
Disc arrived this morning...

looks like good.. i.e. consistent writing surface... and disc seems to have been well manufactured..

more when I've prepped something nasty to test it... we'll see how well it p*sses... and if the competition get wet !!


Brk
Burnt a backup of GT3 A Spec for the PS2 last night using Nero . Up came the message burn successfully completed . Tried it first in Neo 4 PS2 , booted up to the first two screens then nothing happened . Tried the Ps2 with Messiah next , booted up exactly the same , first two screens then nothing . Put it back in the PC to verify and found an error at 84% . The disk still seems good to me as it booted up on both PS2's even though it did not work properly as not a lot of disks I've tried will boot in both PS2's.
Will have to get a couple more of these to try using Stomp Record Max as I backup GT3 to Neo DVDr's without any problems . Maybe I've just got a faulty one even there are no signs of blistering on the surface . If I haven't got a faulty one then eProformance should be p****d all over


Bcuk
Got mine this morning and done a disc to disc copy on a panasonic A04 with primo of a multiple movies disc (starwars trilogy vcds) and played it in my aiwa 370 and pc's toshiba 1502. was most impressed as both drives played all three movies flawlessley. time to buy some i think.


Stonereaper
burned a copy of Behind Enemy Lines using pioneer 104, works fine on
standalone, playstation 2 and X box, will lend 2 friends with different
players any probs will post here
but can`t see should be any problems
nice disc


Mattsq
First impressions of the disc, looks nice, prefer having lines to write on than a large blank surface. It does look identical to Datasafe gen3, with the silver rings on the inside and outside edges.

I burned a 4.25 gig DVD video onto this disc with a DVR-104, there are no obvious defects on this disc after writing. It produced an error at 95% when I ripped it back to my hard drive with a Lite-On 163D, a retry got it to read past this, though it struggled. My hitachi GD-7500 read the disc perfectly. During actual playback there was no breakup or stuttering on the GD-7500, and seek times were fast.

All in all, seems as good as Whitelabeland Datasafe gen 3, but DVD-r doesn't seem to be nearly as reliable as CD-r yet


Mrbingley
Received my "freebie" yesterday, burnt about 4 Gbs of data with it and encountered no problems.
How do decide if this disc or that disc is better, the only way I can see is if it doen't work. All the discs apart from the 2Xs Datasafes have worked fine for me, including the "el cheapos" <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq.
Nicely presented disc in it's case. So it really comes down to price I suppose.
I've applied to test the "Choice" 2Xs, looks promising with it's very competitive pricing.


Wint
First impressions are good as the disc looks quite snazzy with its matt silver finish. Wrote a copy of We Were Soldiers using Nero. Plays fine in my DVD-Rom, plays fine in my Sony machine, and as a bonus plays fine( after a while loking at it) in my mates Mico machine.
Overall, really satisfied. Haven't looked into the price as yet, but would be interested to see where it is positioned in the market.


Britneyfan666
just tested my disc put a ps2 game on it, intro played fine game loaded quick, so good for me but as Whitelabel are cheaper and equally as good il stick to them

ps thx for all these test


Ukred11
put a movie (godfather) onto 1
played fine in my standalone (dansai 952) & my ps2
these r good discs for movies!


Mad Ass
received my disc yesterday, many thanks.

I was very impressed by the look of the disc, the top coat and the underside where spot on and just looked class from the off. I put a copy of the grinch on it and it played first time with no problems what so ever in my pacific pdvd1000 player and had a fast search time using powerdvd xp. The discs also had a wide silver center peice so if you where inclined to put a label on to the top of the disc you wouldnt see any colours just around the outside of the label which is something of a minor niggle with my copies especially with the Whitelabeldvdrs due to the full colour right into the very center of the blanks. There is only one down side to these discs and that has to be the price, is it realy worth paying extra for these discs when I have had no problems with Datasafe gen 3 or Whitelabeldvdrs? I would get these if there was no Datasafe gen 3 or Whitelabels offerd to me but i wouldnt buy as many, just enough to tide me over untill I could get some of the cheaper and equally as good Datasafes/ whitelables.


Nigelthepirate
I received my disc this morning and I was instantly impressed with the packaging and presentation.As with most of the other testers i like the plain silver surface rather than the mulitcolours offered by some.On inspecting the disk itself I found no marks,scratches or blemishes on the writing surface.
I decided to backup a PS2 game (scooby doo - night of 100 frights) using the following equipment and software :amd athlon 1000,pioneer 103 writer,pioneer 116 reader and prassi primo dvd 2.0.
I burned the image at 1x speed and set about testing it on my version 5 ps2 chipped with a messiah.The disk loaded very fast and i let the introduction run to check for any flaws.
Once or twice during this introduction the sound did stutter so i reset the ps2 to recheck and the same thing happened each time,the game from then on played flawlessly with perfect picture and sound.
I already had a few of these disks and i would like to try backing up another ps2 game and probably a film to give them a further trial before i can give an opinion on this media.
I'll let you know how i get on. Thanks to stealth for the chance to take part in this review.


Scottish Nutter
i done a 1-1 copy of a movie with my vivastar dvd-r, the disc loaded fine in the dvd-r drive and my sony dvd rom drive, it also loaded fine and played fine in my jvc dvd player for about 1 hour then the picture went blocky for a few seconds and about 30 mins later the disc had a slight pause. i have used a few types of dvdrs even <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq without any problems at all, so these discs are the worst i have ever used and i will not be buying them id rather stick with the white lable


Alan1812
had disc today made a backup of The Fast and the furious works on all stand alone DVD players I have tried so far with good quality play back tried with liteon DVD drive worked fine tried with Hitachi gd 5000 DVD drive but it would not recognize there was a disc in the drive but i have not been able to play any dvdr disc’s in that drive yet so I will try some more of these disc’s as they look good quality and one is not enough to compare with other disc’s I have used


MikeyB
First impressions were a nice looking disk, well packaged and no scratches or dust on the writing surface. The top surface has a nice professional finish.
Burnt LOTR (4.3GB) onto the disk using a Pioneer 103 using Prassi to test out movie playback at the edge of the disk. The disk plays perfectly on my V5 PS2, XBox, Liteon LTD163 and Pioneer 454. Chapter changes are great, movie playback towards the end of the film was perfect, no complaints at all.
All in all a very nice disk for movies, I would have no hesitation in buying some of these.
Many thanks to Stealth and the sponsors for the free disk


Sharpy_uk
Wrote a two movie dvd-r onto my test disk using Pioneeer 104 and Prassi.
Disk plays back fine on my Dansai 1010 but not my very fussy v4 neo 4 PS2.
So i will be sticking to White Label for the moment, more compatible for me


Bobbo
Wrote a movie on the supplied eProformance disk and got rather disappointing results. Registered pretty quickly on my Panasonic A160 but did get more blocky/sound drop from midpoint than I'd be comfortable with. Will still stay with Datasafe Gen 3 for the moment.


Boggle
Recieved disc i like the look of them and like the fact that they are factory sealed so no dust or dirt.
Copied a movie Purple Rain and burnt no problem, watched it back on my Dansai 1010 and the quality was great fast access to chapters and no quality loss
would use these again but would only buy them all the time if the price came down



Billt
received my disc Wed but only got round to testing it this morning.

Impressed with the look of the disc, no dust particles or blemishes - nice looking top surface

Using a 104 I was surprised how quickly it recognised the blank disc, others I have used take somewhat longer. Burned a backup of a movie (4.2 gig) using prassi. Played perfect on the 104, no skipping or pausing even toward the edge of the disc. Played perfect in my H & B but then most things do. I will pass the disc onto friends this week and let them test on their ps2 and sony standalone.

seems like a very good disc, just the price that would stop me from using them if the data-safe gen 3's are available.

thanks for letting me test for you.


Gazanimal
Got mine on Thursday but been busy....

Nice disc well presented (top surface) & seemed to have a nice dye colouration.

But the case that it was in had all the tiny `teeth` which holds the cd were broken & some had scratched the surface of the dvd-r quite badly.

I gave it go at burning a full size film...nearly 4.3 gig & it `seemed` to burn Ok but.......

PS2...nope didn`t like it at all disc unreadable.
PC....managed to get to the Menu then skipped like a Kanagroo on `E`.
Standalone Acousitc Solutions 551 - Read `PC`.

Not able to test the dvd really as the packaging has damaged the dvd but I think I`ll stick with Datatsafe/Whitelabelor Choice 2x as they seems cheaper & better.

Can`t be all good.


The_Nuke
Sorry This Is The First Chance I Have To Post My Reply??

First Thing I Though When I Receved This DVDR Was How Well Presented It Was Not To Sure On The Blurry Effect On The Top Makes Me Feel Dizzy

Though I Would Try A Movie With This One As Quality Of The DVDR Looked Good

Backed Up A Copy Of The Matrix Worked Very Well No Skipping Or Sound Problems I Would Defanatly Buy Some Of These For Movies


Liam007
I've just tested the disc, I burnt a smallish film 3.3gig, using;
Pioneer 103
Firmware V1.80
Primo Prassi
It was a stragiht forward enough burn but it was only 1x : ( However once burnt the disc played perfectly in the 103, in a mico DVD player and a PS2. The disc was picked up very quickly by all the machines. I must admit i like the presentation of the disc, although i dont really use jewel cases and they tend to end up in the bin!!!
DID THEY PISS ALL OVER THE COMPETITION???
I would say certainly not, it only burnt at 1x, it's more expensive and IMHO are only as compatible as Datasafe whitetops.
WOULD I BUY THEM AGAIN???
To be honest probably not, because they are more expensive than discs that are just as capable, this does no mean that they are bad discs, just you can get discs just as good only there cheaper!!!
P.S.
Thanks for the oportunity to test them


Backupking99
Just burnt Matt hoffmans pro bmx 2 on the sample we recieved.The loading times are slow compared to the Datasafe gen 3.Somebody said in an earlier post that he thought these were the same disc,well we have burnt 8 Matt Hoffmans on the Datasafe & they load quicker.We will stick to the Datasafe.


Kynoch
I got my a couple of days ago but have been busy to test it out, but i did it this morning, by burning c copy of a PS2 game for a mate of mine, took it round to his house and tried it- it worked fine.
I was surpised to see the disk arrive in the proper casing.
I would use this make of disk again


Shue
got sample friday morning burnt 2 disney movies on to it plays perfect in my pioneer 444 reoc a5 and naiko 2051 but not in my ps2 or samsung 709
will have to stick to verbatim or apple until something else comes along.
thankyou for letting me test this dvdr


Fatmanuk
Pioneer 103 firmware 1.55
Prassi 2

Straight copy of a previously mastered dvdr with a high bitrate

no blemishes on the disc after burning, works fine on my Yello 800, PS2, and my m8's three players, which is good because I very rarely manage to get a disc to play on all 3.

Would I buy? Well, I'm getting excellent results with White label and it would take alot to make me change. I looked at the price online and it seems like we are paying for the jewel case in the price, and a dvd looks better in a dvd case. I would like to see them cheaper and either spindled or in a dvd case.

conclusion:-
If I couldn't get my usual brand I would try a small batch of these - say 10 or 20 and if they were still fine would use these as my second choice - maybe even first if the price dropped!!!


Djsy
seems pretty good. burned without american pie without a hitch. works fine in my ps2 and a samsund dvd-709.

on a par with Datasafe gen3.

Sy


Marty
Received my disk on Thursday but have been unable to do anything with it until today (Sunday)
Test equipment:
Gigabyte mother board with 1200 Athlon
Pioneer 103 firmware 1.80
Movie:
Prepared a 3.65gb film using Dvd Workshop to create a dvd directory.
Opened Prassi primodvd and transferred the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS files to the program.
Burnt the disk in the normal way and an pleased to say that it plays perfectly on all the players I am able to test it on.
PS2
Sanyo 1500
Supervision 2500
and Dansia 852
Thanks to Slealth for allowing me to test the disk.
If the price was to fall I would buy them
Regards Marty


Red321
Mine arrived with the jewell case smashed. (thought they would be more careful now they are the post office again )

Burned a really full DVD-Video, 4.32, to see if it played "right up to the edge" usinfg a pioneer 104, and prassi primo.

Disk worked fine in my wharfedale 750s, without any glitches in the main movie. Due to a c***k up in the authoring I couldnt test the exras that were probably at the edge of the disk, so an incomplete test. Recognition of the disk in my Wharfedale were on a par with Whitelabeldisks


Kevinwb
RECIEVED MY DVD YESTERDAY.
BURNT A BACKUP OF EMPORERS NEW GROOVE ON MY AO3.
TESTED ON:

MICO : OK

DANSI: OK

PS2 V3: OK

APEX: OK


THIS IS THE MEDIA ID

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 8A 0D 14 .B...@....P.....
88 88 80 00 03 50 52 4F 44 49 53 00 04 43 47 30 .....PRODIS..CG0

OOPS LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO FWS AND Datasafe GEN 3 TO ME

THIS ONE DISC TESTED OK BUT LIKE FWS AND DATASFE THE QUALITY IS SO INCONSISTANT, IT IS A LUCKY DIP WETHER YOU GET A GOOD ONE


Julian
Got back from hols late last nite (sat), usual rubbish to open but was pleasantly surprised at the packaging keeping the disc clean, also appreciated the cheque from IR from overpaying tax !.

Used the disc in Panny DMR E - 20 this morning to back up 4 episodes of League of Gentlemen, well I am a local man to Royston vasey.
No probs after finalising , played perfect on the Panny and Pioneer 444.


Mojo123
Hi got the disk and just burnt an xbox game starwars jedi starfighter the game is 3 gigs and has burnt flawlessly worked 1st time on bootup although i am using a an attached liteon dvd rom drive even so load times were very fast compared to other disks impressive just an update i was impressed with these disks so i bought 50 and so far burnt another 4 without any problems whatsoever very happy


Guide maker
Got mine a few days ago, but just got a chance to try it out.

Like others have found, the teeth on the jewel case had broken, but it didn't seem to have damaged the writing surface, which was clean.

I have a Panasonic DMR-E20, and I used this disc to archive some episodes of Friends from my TiVo at SP quality.

The first three episodes went fine, and I titled them as I went, but when I came to title the fourth, the player would shut down. This is a problem I've had before with other discs, so I thought I'd have a coaster, but I thought I'd persevere. I had to try a few times, and only succeeded after I set the disc to play from beginning to end. I don't know why this problem occurs - could be alignment problems.

Anyway, I eventually was able to title the fourth episode, and finalised with no hiccups. The disc plays back fine, both on the Panasonic and my Cyberhome standalone.

So, to sum up, whilst I don't want to blame the problems on the disc, it would make me nervous, and I'd much prefer to spend less money on the proven Datasafe Gen3, which are a steal at their current price


Phailes
ok... here goes with the test:

Burning Gear:
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Pioneer 104 DVD writer

DVD Players:
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Philips DVD633, Sony DVP-S336, Samsung DVDROM

Movie copied:
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A copy of LOTR

My first impressions of this disc where good, a nice sealed case, no dust on the surface and the dye looks very like the Datasafe Gen3s. The top of the disc is fairly nice too, I liked the white tops, but this silverish top with the discreet logos looks a bit better IMHO.

Burning:
--------
The disc was picked up straight away by Stomp RecordNow MAX (the Datasafe Gen3s have been taking a little while for it to pick up lately..) and took the standard 1x time to burn.
After burning the bottom of the disc has no bleamishes/blisters on it that I can see.

Playing:
Plays spot on in my Samsung DVDROM drive, chapter skips perfectly etc. I read the disc back in with DVDdecrypter, and it took 11:04 mins to read it in, compaired to a 11:24 mins for the same movie on Datasafe Gen3. So these could be a good choice as master discs as they come in jewel cases for easy storage and read in a touch quicker than the Datasafe Gen3s!
Next on to the standalone players...
First I tried my Sony DVP-S336, it picked the disc up straight away, and played flawlessly, i skipped chapters, and played at x2 speed to see if it kept track, and it did. So the same standard of performance as i get with most Datasafe Gen3 discs on this player.
Next I tried my Philips DVD633, the disc performed flawlessly on this player also, skipped chapters quickly and kept track when fastforwarding.

Conclusion
This disc is of good quaility, and plays on all the players I have tried it on so far (unlike the <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq gen3 that neither of my players liked). I would say it is on a par with the Datasafe gen3s and now it is only 99p each from ONLINE RETAILERS I will get a few more of these on my next order to test out on some of my m8's players. I like the packaging of the disc (though maybe it would be better in a DVD case instead of a jewel case) and the writing surface of the disc is free from dust and dirt as it is sealing in it's jewel case. If only it was 2x I would be ordering a load of these discs...

Cheers for letting us try out these discs Stealth!
(soz it took a while to get the review done but I got a set of 80GBer for my rig and had it down for a couple of days transfering and reinstalling everything off my old raid array)


Shakey
Finally got around to testing my e-proformance sample disk tonight.

A Professional looking disk. Unfortunately the jewel case got smashed in the post and a fragment had managed to get under the disk, badly marking the recording surface.

I chose a short film to burn (hunchback of notre dame II), hoping it would fall short of the scratch and it did. Burned at 1X on an A03 with primo.

Plays perfect on PC, and Awia standalone (which normally won`t play any <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq disks (no surprise there!). chapter scanning and 2x play perfect too. Ran the disk round my neighbours house to try on his PS2 (V5) no problems there either.

In my experience, most problems occur at the end of the disk, so this wasn`t the best test I could have done. I may buy a few with my next order and see how they go when filled to the brim. To be honest, I am very happy with white-label disks, and probably won`t seriously consider changing for anything else untill a good low cost 2x speed disk is available. Hurry up with that new choice sample stealth!


Exc!aim
Here's my brief review of this disc. First impressions of the disc was good as it came in a jewel case which gave the impression of quality which I'm sure is what the manufacturers want. Without trying to get over excited over a disc(!) I thought it was quite nice too. The surface had a satin kind of finish to it which ismore classy than the Datasafes that I use at the moment. The bottom of the disc was neatly finished unlike the Datasafes where I find the blue ring near the centre jagged as though there was an error in manufacturing.

Right, the most important thing about these discs are that they work! I decided to use my sample to burn a xbox game (onimusha) which I have had trouble getting to work on my xbox with a Datasafe disc. The game booted up flawlessly and I'm am quite confident that if I had burnt a movie that this disc would have worked on my DVD players fine. I won't say that these discs are better than the Datasafes yet as I have only used one and so far the Datasafes have only failed to work on a couple of occasions, but I would not hestitate to buy some more of these eprofermance discs for future use.


Mick2
got round to using mine tonight, did a backup of lord of the rings which used more or less the whole disc and am happy to say played faultlessly right to the very end, chapter skipping etc was perfect.
used dvd decryptor to write the iso file on my pioneer a03.
played in my ps2 and xwave, will test on a bush 2023 in next few days but dont expect any problems.
i liked the disc but as i dont have any problems with Datasafe gen3's and they are cheaper i will stick with them.
thanx for allowing me to test again stealth


Darthbane2k
Okay recieved one of these babies in the post. wasnt impressed with the packaging at all, the jewel case and insert looked cheap but none the less I peformed a 1:1 copy of the music video dvd Death Row Uncut. The burn took up most of the disc surface and I played it back on my standalone without a single glitch.

Not a bad disc, maybe a bit too pricey - curious to know whether its any good for PS2 backups though


Tezzi
Whoops, just realised i've not given you my review yet.

Recieved it quite a few days ago..... Sorry!!

burned a copy of Final Fantasy X for a friend of mine, using Prassi. checked it out on my PS2 first, it worked flawlessly, All the FMV worked like a treat, no slow down at all. gave to my mate and checked it out on his PS2, normally he has problems with anything i copy him...
But it's working like a treat as well, he's a happy bunny and looks like he'll be buying some for the sole purpose of "BACKING UP" my entire collection.

Conclusion, very good.. Won't hesitate in purchasing these in the future!!


Chain
Well got mine end(ish) of last week, so finally got to check it out today.

First the packaging, nice to see someone that is brave enough to go for the Jewel Case and I think I will most likely buy these *in* cases due to the amount of problems currently seen buying media in tubs.

Inital thoughts were pretty good the disc looked clean, but then pretty much everyone would if it was packed in a jewel case

I burnt a backup of some PC data (lots of PDF files) that came to about 3.4gb, they worked in both of my systems fine and were seen very fast, fastest so far in fact!

I'm actually sending this to a friend who has been unable to read *any* of my DVD-R's up until now so fingers crossed this one will work if it does.. well I'll certainly be buying them.

Well the disk has been sent round a couple of people now and seems to be one of the best, if not *the* best I have tried so far. Certainly going to place an order soon for some of these.


Vectra1
But was away all day so when I got back it was straight at it Very Impressed when I saw it in a jewel case, Saves scratching like I get sometimes in Bulk/tubs. anyway again I burned Tony hawks 3 for the ps2 as they are choosey as to what media they will read
But No problem to this baby of a disc booted up first time, Gonna lend it to a m8 with a very picky ps2 tomorow and will post back the results
Thanx for the oppurtunity to test these discs.


Flash
Got mine last week initial view the sealed jewel case is nice to keep the disc clean but it is almost impossible to use the tear tab to remove the outer protection, a gripe I always had with the CD's. The missus also complained when she had to pick the wrapper off the floor.
Opening the case revealed the centre securing clip had bits broken off it and they were floating about in the case, I blame the postal service for their heavy handedness.
Well that’s my usual gripe over now for my opinion

The discs are a matt silvery gold colour with not too obtrusive mirror finish writing, the writing surface is a light purple dye similar to the Datasafe gen3 with no visible defects, they look good. I burnt a movie on the one I received and tested it in all my DVD players checking FF FR and chapter skipping both ways. I scrutinised playback on the last 10 mins of the disc and could not fault it. Not whishing to give a false report with just the one disk with which I am impressed I purchased another 50.
Having now burnt my first 2 packs of 5 on my A03 & A04 without any failure whatsoever I am satisfied that these are a good disc and if the price matches the likes of Datasafe & WhitelabelI can see them being a best seller.

On the down side the first 2 I used in my Panasonic DMR-E20 were perfect, but the next 3 were not accepted before burning, so they are not 100% suitable for my Pany.
The rejected discs being unwritten to were still useable and burnt without problems

I also have solved the problem of unwrapping!! I let the missus do it a box at time and she no longer has to complain about the mess.

EDIT
Having purchased 50 of these in the light of the original test I have had 5 fail now due to flaws in the media which are only visible after the burn, so I am sorry to say IMO they do not piss over the competition. 10% failure is not acceptable to me at the price they are.


Paulleahey
Apologies first of all - got this disc last Thursday but was away so finally got to burn it tonight!

Burned a SpruceDVD authored DVD-movie rip with chapters, menus, Dolby Digital sound and anamorphic widescreen picture. Used PrimoDVD to burn the authored image I had saved especially for this disc.

Have tested the disc on a Toshiba Region1 player brought back from the states and a Pioneer 646 Region2 chipped for Multi region DVD player. Both played the disc no problem at all, fast forward, reverse, chapters, menus, Dolby Digital sound, not one problem.

I was impressed by the jewel case, uncluttered silvery-shadow writing surface and basically this disc has encouraged me to now buy some more to see if they will work for my PS2 (which my <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq's do not!)

Can't wait to see what the competition bring out to beat this disc!

Highly recommended and thanks go to MediaForums.net for the chance to test it out first - keep up the good work guys!


Roland_Da_Rat
just burnt l##d of the rings on mine and must say it plays great

no skipping or breaking up

when can we buy some of these


Bpsmith
Sorry for delay but have been abroad on holidays until late Sunday evening and just had a chance to test this disc.

Very professional looking product at first impression and it soon lived up to this once burnt.

I had done an image of Blood Omen 2 for the PS2 on my hard drive and had just burnt this onto a Datasafe Gen 3 before going away and had not tested it.

Basically it would play, but the FMV on the intro's was jerky and even stopped the disc spinning and you would have been lucky to hit X early enough to get to the menu! Once starting a game it played flawlessly though and this was the first problem I had with Datasafe discs!

So, decided to burn the same image to the eProformance disc and see what happened. Success, the FMV plays as smooth as silk and the game is perfect! Very pleased with the results and am wondering about moving away from Datasafe to these, unless Choice media has something up its sleeve?


Ukrevrend
Did my back up of Lord of The Rings, re-encoded to fit one disc,. Playback was flawless, in my Limit 8702, fast forward, rewind, no holding back, no blockiness.
Looks like a very good DVD-R, but I always reserve my opinion until I have tested a few of these disc.

I 'll probably order a few to make a full test.

For now, dually satisfied.

ukRevRend


Huge Monster
Sorry for the delay in posting my reply, i've been on me hols

When the Disk arrived I was quite surprised to see that it was packaged in a CD case, nice to know that it wont get damaged in the post !!!

Burnt a DVD movie with MPEG 2 Video and MPEG audio
Played faultlessly in the 2 players I tested it in and even the PS2.

Dansai 852
Sony 535
PS2 version 5

These are very nice looking discs.
I would have to say I am impressed with these discs, I am planning on buying some as soon as I’ve used up all my other brands.


Pk24
sorry not tested before now been ill in bed with gastro... whatever the doc called it

anyways burnt a copy of h.potter using my pioneer 103 to burn it , went through burn flawlessly but so many other discs i use do this as well now so aint suprised

plays fine ( sellecting through chapters ) on pioneer dvr-7000 , both dansai 852 , both pc's and laptop as well

so far so good , next i thought id test it on my new toy my 5-dvd stacker sysem from technics .

watched disc start to finish , no probs discs fine all way through , so all in all disc is fine but the latest revison of all dvd's so far seem to have made dud dvd's a thing of the past , now just waiting to get some cash to try some of these 2 speeds out ...lol

hope this helps


Blue
Got the sample DVD-R, been to busy to test but tested now......

Burned with A03 ver 1.68 Burned at X1

dvd movie
played on pioneer 717 np
played on ps2 np
played on cyberhome np
played on Deka dvd player np

The disc arrived in excellent condition with nice packaging. No blemishes or dust on the media. backup was burned in just under an hour without delay or error.

Very good disk just the price now


Rmsspecial
After writing a film on the test eproformance disk.
Everything went smoothly
i'm very impressed with the look of it .
There have been no signs of any faults on playback.
im quite impressed


Yohudi
Been saving mine for something special...

happy to report I got a loan of the Sn*w Wh*te live action version thats been recently released...had a look at it and was 4.425GB as an image. I've managed to burn 4.37's and 4.39's in the past, and they've worked NP...Anyway I thought.. b*gger it.. I got the disc free so I'll give it a blast... and wonder of wonders.. it had it and worked, I get a gnat's tadger of break up on the end titles.. but other than that no probs in my players. Will be passing it round my testers this week.

I'm suitably impressed.. with the test disc.. but I've been impressed by test discs before.. and then disappointed by the production run media I've gone on to buy.

I'm going to invest in about 25 of them in a couple of weeks... give it time to get the test-run batches out the way...and will know better after that.. but.. they've got my interest.. I'll give them that..


Phailes
Just a quick update on my review...
I got a couple of mate's to test the disc, one has a fussy Panasonic player that doesn't like the latest Datasafe gen3 disc but worked fine with the eperformance discs! And the other has a fussy PS2 that also doesn't like the latest Datasafe gen3 discs and worked ok, but with a little break up now and again.
So I'm gonna get a few more of these to try out as they seem more compatiable with different peoples players


Premiercfc
Excellent DvD-R, Unlike some other brands it plays the DVD Movie I burnt on all of the players I have tried!


Pugsy
Got the DVDR last week this is the first time I've had chance to use it...well actually I burnt it on Monday, but as I was typing in a review my PC turned itself OFF.....first time I've had a PSU die on me:-( Anyway a new 300W PSU later here's the review..

Burnt a film in DVD format onto the dvdr with my Pioneer A04 and Prassi. Burnt DVDR has no blemishes (always nice to see), played back the film fine in my standalones (Wharfedale M5 (checked 100%) and xbox (skipped through the film and all looks fine)) also reads fine in my fussy SCSI Pioneer 103.

I'd buy these again.....but I'm tempted more by the cheaper Choice 2X media which is supposed to be as good......we will see.


Swaff
A bit slow, ben busy but here are my results;
Disk looks nice, packaging good.

Burnt ScoobyDoo with A03 and prassi

PS2 - No probs, and mines ben a bit unreliable lately
Cyberhome ADM512 - again no probs, although I never do with this box.
Also got same disk going to some other players, but it seems as if it gonna work in about anything.


Bairn2
using a pioneer 104 copied Jason X at 1x
played ok on these standalones
Sony 336
Pioneer 530
Pacific 750
Pacific 1002
disc looks nice but is no better than Datasfe Gen 3's which are cheaper


Jimg
worked fine on my 104 dvd writer and played perfect on my sony dvd player and ps2 i ff it nps then rw it np i think its not a bad disk at all np will be buying these disks from now on.


Steve118
Burnt Harry Potter using Pioneer 104

Plays fine in Scan 2000,but coming up as bas disc in Wharfedale 750s.

I've played FWS,White Label,Datasafe no probs in Wharfedale,so I wont be getting any more of these as they dont work in both my standalones.


Robbielogan2
got mine 2 days ago sorry for the delay
visual inspection was good no marks and looked like a good disk
burned 4 gigs worth of pc games and it worked flawlessley when extracted back onto hdd all in all a good disk.


Utha_pendragon
Got The disk in the post on saturday but the disk and case were badly damaged, on opening the disk case the disk itself was badly scratched and unusable. They sound quite good from the other replies, maybe I could get a replacement one if poss stealth.


Thechippyowner
Finally got round to writing my thoughts on the eproformance DVD-r. Burnt V-rally 3 for the PS2 with A03 and prassi 2

The Disc looked nice upon arrival, so lets see how it performs!!

Have tested the disc on 18 consoles thus far all with no problem, load times are good, no skipping FMV on any of the consoles, will continue to test with all future consoles that come my way.

Overall impression is that these discs are OKAY!!!!


Emanef
I've now had a chance to test the E-Proformance dvd-r I got and, was very pleasantly suprised with the result.

My writer is a Pioneer DVR 104, and my playback DVD player is a Toshiba SD210E, which it connected to a 36" Toshiba tv via component connections, and to my Marrantz SR4200 amp via coax.

My test burn was using the first half of Apocalypse Now Redux. I'd borrowed it off my Bro-in-law, so ripped it to my hard drive and split the vobs over two disks. Playback time was around 1 hour & 30 minutes.

My Toshiba DVD player is quite fussy (actually, very fussy!), and has not liked Bulpaq Gen 3, Datasafe Gen 3 and Princo, plus a few unbranded ones. The only ones it happily plays back are White Label. However, the E-Proformance playback faultlessly all though the movie.

I wouldn't buy in bulk until I've tested a few more, though that's clearly not a criticism, just general scepticism. However, I've just ordered some more blanks, and ordered a couple more of these to try. If they're also a successful, I will buy more, as the label is somewhat more subtle that the gawdy White Label ones.....!


Chrom@
just given my disc a quick test.

1st impressions of the disc and packaging are great, as said before with the disc being sealed no dust etc on the writing surface, also my postman must like me as the jewel case didn't have a single mark let alone a crack.

well look's are one thing but how did the disc perform, this i'm sure is the most important factor ?

well performance i must say was super, backed up my backup of LOTR, using stomp max 4, when i played it back in my tosh 220 it was read straight away, chapter seach was fast and played to the end without a single problem, having said that the tosh works fine with blukpaq gen2 though they take a bit longer to be recognised.

conclusion : appearance/packaging is first class
writing/playback : just as good a d/s gen3

would i buy more ?
well yes i may well do, got a few d/s gen3's to use up first, and will then see whats on offer, price of the e-performance has already dropped.

thanks for the test disc


Energize
I like the pakaging on these, they do look like a quality disc and there was not a single micro spec of dust on the writing surface
Pioneer A03 writer accepted disc and PrassiPrimo DVD pretty much instantly recognised as blank DVD-R (some discs take forever to be recognised)
Watched movie in JMB standalone player, (Not DVDr Compatible)disc recognised straight away as DVD as continued to play without defect.
Permanent fast forward showed no problems. If E Proformance can get their prices to around the <a href="http://www.bulkpaq.co.uk/” target="_blank">Bulkpaq or Datasafe Gen 3 price level then they will gain a lot of customers, me includedIs it worth the extra 25pish to buy these ? tough call, I have tried two discs and been happy with both, but I have also tried plenty of other Gen 3's and been happy with those.

Lose the case I preferr spindle this will get the price down a little


Grilla
Good looking disc, burned a 3-movie compilation on it with my 104,
plays great on 3 different standalones, overall I am pretty impressed with this disc and will probably buy more.

System_Error

been away on holiday so just got chance 2 burn mine,
copied a ps2 game using an 104.
no prob

Added:  Tuesday, October 01, 2002
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