[scaught]

i bought some CDRs off ebay. a big brick of blanks all in a stack type deal and they suck. they take forever to spin up in my CD drive for some reason while other CDs(and other CDRs) spin up immediately.

anyway. im gonna get some new ones. what do you all use? whats a reasonably good (relatively cheap) media and whats the flat out best out there?

[-Q-]

Originally posted by scaught:
<STRONG>i bought some CDRs off ebay. a big brick of blanks all in a stack type deal and they suck. they take forever to spin up in my CD drive for some reason while other CDs(and other CDRs) spin up immediately.

anyway. im gonna get some new ones. what do you all use? whats a reasonably good (relatively cheap) media and whats the flat out best out there?</STRONG>

I've had some really good luck with Memorex media. They've been read in every drive I've used with them so far and they're a good price. Not the cheapest, but good quality.

I also got a spindle of black CD-Rs from CompUSA and while they're very cool, I've had a couple older CD drives not be able to read them. And they're a bit more expensive than the regular CD-Rs.

[xyber233]

I prefer Imation or CompUSA cds (they actually work well).

[LeftWingLock]

I've been using Sony and Maxell with no problems.

[Paco500]

I buy the best deal I can find on a name brand (tdk, imation, maxcell, etc.) I bought some supercheap generics I ended up tossing because they would not play in my car cd player. I've had equal success with all the name brands.

Paco

[Cellery]

I stocked up on 700MB imation discs at Best Buy when they were super cheap and now have a stockpile of 400+ blanks sitting around. The slimline cases are cool and I've never had a problem with the media being bad.

[dvd]

i usually buy TDK. i heard the ones made in japan were the best.

[Cipher13]

Verbatim and Mitsubishi are the best.

Dark blue dye is much better.

[Paul S]

I usually use Imation, Maxell, or Sony. I've had cheap ones from free deals that were OK, but those 3 brands have never produced a coaster for me. They read in all of my computers (back to a beige G3) and have played in the CD players of each of the last 2 cars my wife and I had/have.

[fulmer]

heheh. I go for the really cheap. Durabrand (a 50 piece pack) or Teon are the most recent brand purchases. both cd-r audio. they play in the car and elsewhere.

[VRL]

Sony (I prefer). Also no problems with Maxell, Fuji, Imation.

[Justin W. Williams]

Me gusta TDK (I like TDK)

Mitsui, light-teal coloured media.

Brands alone don't say the whole story, since some brands use different media for different lines. I have found the light-teal media to be the most compatible with stuff like car CDs and ghetto blasters and the like. I find the green and dark blue media problematic with rare non-computer CD players. Light blue and gold usually are OK though, although I seem to remember a couple of problematic gold discs.

My burner is a Teac 24X. For my most important stuff I buy the Mitsui 80 min 24X certified light-teal media.

For everything else I buy 16X certified cheapo light-teal media. It works fine at 24X 98% (but not 100%) of the time.

[mike one]

i usually go with whatever is on sale, that is a name brand of course.

on this topic, where can i get cd-rs that are blank on top, without any of that crap company commercialization? any ideas?

[Walter J. Ferstl]

Ricoh CD-R 1x-24x

After some disappointment with some other brands, I am using preferrably Ricoh CD-R 1x - 24x (gold/yellow, in red boxes). They work very good on my SCSI Yamaha 400 drive (very old, I know, no CD-RW capability even, maximum speed is 4x - but reliable).

An Iomega USB burner I used for some time was very picky when it came to CD-R brands. It especially loved to eat TDK CD-Rs for breakfast, a horrible drive.

Walter.

[ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: Walter J. Ferstl ]

[scaught]

Originally posted by mike one:
<STRONG>i usually go with whatever is on sale, that is a name brand of course.

on this topic, where can i get cd-rs that are blank on top, without any of that crap company commercialization? any ideas?</STRONG>

thats what i had bought off ebay. just search CD-Rs on ebay and youll find auctions selling a big brick of blank CDs with no printing on top. the ones i got seemed to have a problem spinning up my slotload imac and my ibook. i burned a disk the other night with my G4 though and they seemed to work ok so im not sure...

[iKevin]

Mitsui and SKC

We do alot of duplication at work(1000-2000 a month) and we haven't had any problems with either of these 2 media brands.

[Secret Vampire]

I have to say that I personally have never had any problem with branded media, that said the experience of others has led me to avoid Pioneer and Traxdata discs, the pioneers were virtually unusable in car CD players, and the Traxdatas were somewhat prone to burning coasters.

So as one of the other posters said, go for whatever is branded and cheap.

I've got some old philips 6x ones that I bought before I had a burner and had to get friends to make me CDs, they were cheap at the time, now I don't want to use them because they're expensive compared to newer ones

[rogerkylin]

Originally posted by -Q-:
<STRONG>

I've had some really good luck with Memorex media. They've been read in every drive I've used with them so far and they're a good price. Not the cheapest, but good quality.

I also got a spindle of black CD-Rs from CompUSA and while they're very cool, I've had a couple older CD drives not be able to read them. And they're a bit more expensive than the regular CD-Rs.</STRONG>

I burned Memorex CDR's in my LaCie drive, and the LaCie drive is the ONLY drive that will read it (data cd)...not my ibook drive, or even a pc at work.

[Paul S]

I've also had problems with Memorex CD-Rs. I had 2 10-packs and burned 4 or 5 coasters with them. I've heard similar complaints from other people as well.

[suprz]

the best cdr media i've used to date were kodak gold. but, i cannot find them anywhere anymore....(maybe stopped making them) but since then i have used sony and tdk and have had good success.. ( i prefer the sony however)

[neps]

Originally posted by mike one:
<STRONG>on this topic, where can i get cd-rs that are blank on top, without any of that crap company commercialization? any ideas?</STRONG>

try a place like macwarehouse.com. Do a search for cd-r print, and you should get hits for printable surface disks.

we have gotten both immation (my choice) and verbatim blank top disks from them.

[G4ME]

I have had some probelms with my memorex CDR spindle, not with the acutal burnning of the CDR but the life or if, I kept the Cds in my car and ever now and then I noticed that the edges of the media, thin flakey plastic that has the information, started to buble and peal back, its happened to about 5 -7 out of 50 and the Cd plays fine for the first half of the CD but when it come up to the damaged part it can't read, I am not that disaponited, it only cost me about 20 cents to replace it but still a little agrivating,

Right now I picked up a 100 pack, 2 50 spindels of Imation 700BM CDRs and haven't had a single problem. I am down to about 40 right now, I will be looking for some more by the time fall comes around,

I only use CDs in one two out of the three cars I drive (my parents like to rotate cars), I use my iPod for anything else.

[Tristrami]

Try the Memorex Black CD-Rs. They work great and they look really cool, too.

[PeteWK]

TDK 32X. Cheap and haven't had a coaster as yet.

PeteWK

[vasu]

www.cd-recordable.com

and add another vote for Mitsui and Ricoh discs