>Just buy some quality CD's will ya? ;-) > >Its amazing how bad cheap CD's can be. If you really want your data, get >Fuji or some hi quality brand, not the $20/spindle stuff which have >extremely thin data layers, which are hard to read on many players. >Quality does mean something in this case.
Its funny you say that... the CDs I'm having a problem with ARE quality CDs. They are 3M branded blanks. They are sold in unlabeled bulk pack for duplicators. They cost be about $45 for a spindle of 50, which by today's standards puts them in the top of the line pricing for bulk packed CDs. Although the 74s I am using that work fine are even better quality in my opinion. They are Verbatim top of the line discs. I buy the 74s for my video CD burner where I am recording meetings and selling the VCD to the client for $50 a meeting (2 discs per meeting). So I only buy top of the line for that as I need to make sure they work right the first time and every time. When you are selling them out at $25 per disc (on top of room rental and everything else... basically figure a normal night will be billed at around $800-$1500 depending on what all they get), you can afford to spend $1.00 a blank (although, I was only spending about 60 cents a blank on the Verbatims). The Verbatim 74s have become very hard to find (like all 74s), and I wound up with the 3M's by mistake when my regular dealer shipped me a similar "replacement", not realizing that I can't use 80 minute discs in my Video CD burner (the burner only works with 74 minute blanks). I didn't ship them back as I was just about out of data CDs anyway, so I kept them for computer archive use. I had no problems with the first half of the spindle, but now they are all doing this goofyness. So IF it is a CD problem, then buying quality CDs didn't help any, as these are very good quality CDs. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
