Although this is a very subjective test, I was staggered [given the number of peeps CD players which wont read CD-R discs] to find my CD player (about eight years old) happily recognised a single 70min or so track on a data only CD-R which it played as white noise. I then copied a standard music CD onto CD-R (cyan coloured media from Verbatim) to see if it was a fluke but my 8 years old CD player happily reads CD-R recorded discs. No problem whatsoever. What gives? My CD player is eight years old but it happily reads cyan (blue-green) CD-R audio discs and I can copy a recording from such a disc throught its optical output to MD. Then again it reads discs that most other decks jump like hell with so perhaps I was lucky with my chosen Aiwa XC-900 CD player. I had been led to believe the laser power may be inadequate due to CD-R lower reflectivity, and that while CD-RW may be okay-- I'd be unlikely to find my old CD player worked faultlessly with a cyan CD-R. Why then does this eight year old unit perform fine with cyan CD-R, including copying thro' the optical interface from the CD-R to MD? Are some CD players just c**p these days? Cheers, PrinceGaz <- Feeling very pleased his CD player bought 5 yrs before any thought of digital copying had an optical out that works properly, and is able to read CD-R discs without any problem. Go Aiwa, go. All hail the Aiwa XC-900, unit of the future. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
