In message <33412.64.169.63.74.1113776553.squirrel at 64.169.63.74>
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Floor scrapings are the only kind CMC Magnetics makes.
Amen to that. I had one a CMCMag disc delaminate inside a rather expensive CD
recorder. Thankfully they didn't
I did call the company I bought the discs from to request a refund - they
refused on the grounds that it was more than 7 days since I bought the discs.
Mentioning the Sale of Goods Act only resulted in the sales rep hanging up on
me. I gave up and used the discs as coasters - it's about all they're good
for.
TDK CD-Rs used
to be Taiyo-Yuden, which is the best.
I'm viciously protective of my "secret stash" of T-Y CDRs. I've got half
a
dozen left and I still haven't found anywhere that sells them in spindle
packs (or jewel cased for that matter). SVP have got packs of 100
shrink-wrapped for a bit over ?20, but past experience with shrinkwrapped CDs
suggests they're going to be scratched to hell by the time I get them open.
My first pack of CDRs (after the CMCs) was a pack of TDK Reflex discs (ATIP
checked as "TDK Corp"). They were damn near perfect - even now, four years
on, there aren't any data errors on them.
Then I bought a pack of ten and ended up with CMCs...
I can only guess that some bean counter at TDK
refused to pay for T-Y when CMCM is so much cheaper. Possibly TDK has
switched to something else by now, but I'll never find out first-hand.
Same here. They still make their own DVD-RWs (Media ID on mine was
"TDKsakuM3") but they outsource CDR manufacture to CMC. I've been buying
the
Verbatim DLPs for ages and never had a bad burn. They also seem to take
Pressit labels quite well (certainly better than the TDKs).
No, I don't use Pressit labels on my backup CDs - I've got a water-based CD
marker to label those.
Later.
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