>From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: CD's >Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:19:37 +0200 > >At 13:06 16-07-2002 -0700, Jeffrey Miller wrote: > >> > Talking about burners >> > I have a HP x8 burner. It fries one in four CD's. Pretty sad >> > in a country where a compilation of 100 coverless burnables >> > is around 120$ Please write back, that you feel sorry for me :C >> >>Ouch! We'll have to figure a way to inexpensively ship you cheap American >>CDs.. > >That might not be such a great idea. IIRC, fairly recently someone here >posted about those cheap American CDs; I recall something about "most CDs >in the 100-pack were faulty"...
It all depends on what brand of disks you buy. I tend to avoid bargain-basement-priced packs of 100 CDs without any boxes. I usually buy Verbatim DataLifePlus w/AZO Blue (not the multicolored packs), and I have never had a single one of those go bad (they may have been the SuperAZOs or the Metal AZOs, I don't remember for sure and I'm at work right now so I don't have any with me). Of course, I believe the AZO Blue dye in them is the same dye that Germany requested the EU to ban from use in clothes about a year ago... http://makeashorterlink.com/?U3CA11741 At any rate, I get them at Sam's Club very cheap; unfortunately I don't remember the exact price. The RW version is about $18 for 20 of them, for comparison purposes. I buy the CD-Rs in 20 packs with jewel cases, and they work great. I know someone who purchased a spindle of 100 of them and had no problems. These disks also work fine with DirectCD, which basically lets you use a CD-R as a CD-RW on other machines that have DirectCD. As always, YMMV. Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
