10 Nov
2002
10 Nov
'02
9:13 p.m.
Kodak seems to be mostly out of the gold CD-R business,
but Mitsui and
Taiyo Yuden still make gold media. It's hard to find at retail, though
a Google search turns up plenty of mail order sources. Of course it
is much more expensive than silver.
Any idea about the quality of Verbatim's "Azo" dye? Obviously they hype
it as being far better than other media, but I didn't know if anyone
knows any "truth" about it.
I have been moving to those because that is what I have been buying for
my VCD recorder. I settled on them because they were the only ones I
could get to work reliably in my VCD recorder when I first got it. It
turned out to be a defective recorder (cooling fan was broken, so the
unit overheated within minutes), and now just about any 74 minute CD-Rs
work in it... but I have stuck with the Verbatim despite the slightly
higher price... simply because I was impressed that they managed to work
consistantly even in a broken recorder.
-chris
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