People using RITEKG03 dvd-rs... Got some ?'s...

I have had extremely good results with Ritek G03 at 1x Speed. I burn a coaster in perhaps only 1 out of 50 DVD burns. However: i tried to burn at 2x speed with the V1.31 firmware. At first everything seemed fine. However when i started watching the movies i recorded at 2x speed, almost all of them had artifacts and stuttering playback. Out of 10 disks that i burned at 2x speed, about 8 had these problems. So i switched back to 1x speed burning and i have no problem at all any more. I think Ritek GO3 is a very good and extremely compatible media for 1x burning (also reads on PS2) but is crap for 2x burning. This is probably the reason why Pioneer removed 2x support for these media in their v1.32 upgrade... So if i were you: i wouldn't bother to downgrade: you'll burn coasters all over the place...

I'm using Ritek G03 at 1x Speed for both movies and PS2 games backups, and I've had excelent results, no coaster out of 30 burns. I did not try the 1.31 firmware for my A04, cause I've read mostly negative stuff about burning at 2x with this media. Here in Brazil, even Ritek's are expensive, so I can't afford burning coasters to save half an our per disc (I don't do this for a living). Hope my information help you... Cya!

I know this post is a little old....... 

I haven't had any problems with the G03's ... I've burned data and movies with them at 2x on my Samsung SR-T03B burner. The movies play back perfectly on my Panasonic A160 DVD Player. Anyway, from what I've heard, the Ritek G03's are the best media for most burners / DVD players. Hope that helps, lat3ralis

1 - I never do data verification... takes too much time, after 30 mins of burning i want my disc! I burn at 2X always. 2- These work perfectly on PS2. I have approximately 25 burned for that purpose, no problems at all. I dont own A04... I'm interested where you are going to get these discs at, I can only find G-04.

For what it's worth 

ritek g03 work fine 

i have the pioneer 105 and the sony dru 500 and i burn the g03 at 2x on both at the same time and hardly ever have a bad burn

Out of 250 Ritek G03 and Datawrite (Ritek G04) not one coaster. G03 were 1x and Datawrite 2x. I allways rip back the dvd-r to hd using decrypter and always burn using an image from imgtools. They play all to PS2 and xbox smoothly. Go for them bindfold.

Is anyone burning at 2X with G03's using Nero on a 104 at v1.31? After reading this I burned 1 more at 2X and it failed data verification (I do verify because I don't always have time to watch it before I delete the image). I watched it. An entire chapter played in 9-10 frames. What is K's Probe? Is it reliable at finding skips etc.? Is it faster than Nero?