{"id":528,"date":"2005-05-15T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-05-15T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:53:00","slug":"avoid-ritek-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Ritek media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of Ritek branded media, both for DVD-R\/+R and CD-R for a few years now.  It used to be a brand you could rely on for consistently good results, but that has been changing.  I&#8217;ve been having problems making DVDs lately, and at first I thought it was one of my burners.  But when I found I was having problems with BOTH burners, and that scans of the &#8216;good&#8217; burns had very high error rates, I came to conclude that it was the media and not the burner.  I went out to buy a few other brands of media today and burned a batch as a test.  Those came out with NO problems and very low error rates.  Looking around the web on sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/club.cdfreaks.com\/\">CD Freaks<\/a>, it turns out that there&#8217;s a lot of complaints about Ritek quality declining lately.  The sad thing is the bad spindle I bought is Ritek labeled, not an OEM brand like Ridata or another.  The Ritek labeled ones are supposed to be only Grade A rated media.  What has happened to you, Ritek?<\/p>\n<p>I recommend not buying Ritek-made media from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of Ritek branded media, both for DVD-R\/+R and CD-R for a few years now. It used to be a brand you could rely on for consistently good results, but that has been changing. I&#8217;ve been having problems making DVDs lately, and at first I thought it was one of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avoid Ritek media&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}