According to a DigiTimes reporter quoting "industry sources"; media that are in reality, 8x and 4x DVD+R/-R discs, are now being passed off as 16x and 8x respectively and the problem seems to be on the increase.
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The article mentions that among Taiwanese manufacturers, only CMC, Ritek, Prodisc, Daxon and Lead Data are capable of producing the 16x discs. The smaller producers are limited to the slower 4 and 8x speeds.
Source: DigiTimes
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There is no word on infomedia whose 16x media was earlier full approved by Philips as let's say riteks own and CMCs own media and yes infomedia is still making decent 16x media.
No word on Optodisc. Why they reported earlier that optodisc was making 16x media. (And still is !)
And there is princo. BUt maybe they left these out because Princo might not be making -R because they are not paying some royalties so there disc's are not official dvd-r :-P
Princo & Optodisc 16x on digitimes.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20060822PB201.html
Also what's prodisc doing there ?
Prodisc currently is unlicensed incase of Philips.
So at the moment there +R media is actually not DVD+R media.
