The terrible state of CD-R quality :/

I won't be either from now on. Memorex are often on sale in my area, so I used them for daily video recordings and Maxell, Sony or Verbatim for data backups. Also, it would seem that Memorex is now just a re-branding of discs made by Imation. :/

 

Never had a problem with Maxell, either the printable 'white tops' or regular standard discs. As for burning speeds my laptop writer will burn CD-R's at 4X and in my PC I've got a Pioneer 114D which won't go any slower than 8X but still hasn't given me any issues with bent discs (I point blank refuse to use the term 'back up', no matter how you look at it it's a pirate for fucks sake. Back up, who are you kidding?) on various incarnations of the PSX, PSone, PS2, Saturn, Dreamcast, original Xbox or Neo Geo CD.

 

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I remember someone recommending Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-Rs on this forum:
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Vinyl-Multicolor-Spindle/dp/B00009WO51

Multi-colored, high quality, stylish, and cheap. I've never looked back since.

 

I haven't seen them for ages, places are still selling these? Better buy a few packs

 

I haven't had a problem with a CD-R since the very early days of CD recorders. I use Sony CD-R's now and I've never had any problems with them.

 

I have an 80% success rate burning with IMGburn

100% success rate with NERO

10% with Disc Juggler

 

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The other day I saw this guy selling a used but still OK 1950s GE stove

Dude was asking like $4000, I thought he was nuts

Later I heard there were people running to get it, and that the price went up to $6000

Turns out those stoves were really good, better than current models according to some, and the fact that one lasted 60 years under regular use shows how sturdy it was.

TBH thats the case with almost everything made up to 30 or 40 years ago, I've found computers from the 70s that still worked perfectly, yet I think most iPads and X360s will be bricks in less than 10 years

Of course in the 70s a computer would cost like $5000, while today people bitch about the iPad being too expensive at $500

 

Buy taiyo yuden and have no problems.

Also have a good writer, spend some time at cdfreak (now myce?)

 

Dark blue dye for the win!

 

Thanks every one for the help, sorry for the late reply, Ive been without a telephone or ADSL for a few weeks now, as some decided to steal the copper cabling and janked out the actual connector box for our whole areas phone system XD, could log in from my phone but was anable to post.

Just thought I will update every one on this, after I posted I started hunting down, both Verbatim Digital Vynal and Verbatim Gold archive discs.

I managed to source a pack of five Verbatim Gold discs, and a spindle of 25 Digital vynal Discs.

Edit: Still looking for TY discs, it seems that every one that has them seems to try and sell me rebranded ones, and I dont want to take a chance.

Verbatim Gold, was by far the most expensive working out to nearly R32 per disc($4 ish), but the retialer told me its old stock and the price will probably drop when new stock arrives, I noticed a remarked improvement over anything else that I tried, all 5 discs worked perfectly, no DRE or stuttering, and the and both my Psone and Saturn, seemed to read these better and was generally less noisy than any of the other discs.

Verbatum Digital Vynal. I was very pleased with them, they worked out to R8 per Disc (Or $1 ish), out of 12 I have burnt only two is giving me a bit of hassle reading, they are very close to what I had before with the older discs, and considering the fact that they are relatively easy to find compared to the Gold, the Price, as well as the availability, This will be my disc of choice from now on.

It is worth noting, that visually none of the two discs physical "burn" looked as good as the old discs, but I regret I wont ever find those again

 

South Africa.

PS Dont I know you from Psx-scene, back when Ps2 mods just started appearing, I recognize your user name for some reason?

 

This ^

The floppy disks had this similar issue, quality control was used, the disks that passed the QC were marked as 2HD disks, the ones that failed the QC were marked as 2DD and would work fine with that formatting.
When they stopped making 2DD disks the quality check stopped.
Since I often bought both types of disks for my Atari ST and PC I noticed this first hand.


As for optical media, since there's a low demand for cd-r media, the quality control went down the drain.
I have also noticed a quality drop in DVD-R media, I used Sony DVD-R on my PS2 without a hitch, now a new cake of Sony DVD-R and every single burn fails to read.

As for CD-R media, my local shops usually have Mitsai brand, which is working perfect on everyithing (MegaCD, Saturn, DC, etc)

 

If you'd like I can purchase a cake box of 100 TY CD-Rs and forward them to you if you pay for them and shipping to South Africa. Probably won't be cheap to ship but it'll likely beat $4USD per CD-R by a long shot.

 

I been a member of psx-scene for several years. I'm still very active in the PSone section.