11 Nov
2002
11 Nov
'02
4:56 a.m.
Tothwolf <tothwolf(a)concentric.net> wrote:
You can't always trust that data though. Its
unfortunately common for
some CD-R manufacturers to sell off old glass masters to budget CD-R
companies, who (obviously) can't change the data (that would require
creating a whole new glass master).
I can't imagine that any reputable CD-R manufacturers would sell off
the masters. In fact, I would assert that selling off the old masters
is sufficient cause to consider a CD-R manufacturer to be disreputable.
The reason you stop using a master and start using a new one is that
the old one is worn out. Making masters isn't that expensive; it would
be a stupid place to try to economize on the manufacturing process, but
I can believe that some companies might do it.
A more serious cause for concern would be if some of the manufacturers
deliberately falsified the ATIP data to counterfeit a different
manufacturer's ID. I haven't heard of that happening, and I'd expect
that any reputable manufacturer upon discovering such behavior from
a competitor would take legal action.
As a data point, I have NEVER had any trouble with any CD-R that has
the Taiyo Yuden manufacturer ID. If I've gotten any conterfeit ones,
they're good enough that I didn't notice. On the other hand, if
anyone is counterfeiting CMC Magnetics discs, they're doing just as
bad a job as CMC.