On Wednesday March 19 2003 08:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Wednesday March 19 2003 05:19 am, Peter Watson wrote:
> > There was a recent thread which talked about identifying the
> > manufacturer of CD-R'S using ATIP information. I have since come
> > across the following, I've no idea how true it is but it makes
> > interesting reading.
>
> Thanks Peter. I've never had any reason to doubt atip info
> till I read what you posted below. Guess I need to do some
> Google'in ;)
>
> If it's fact, then there is no way to tell who to heck made
> the CDr's. Which if that's the case, I'm left with 'the greener the
> better' when looking at the uncoated side ;)
OK, I did some Google'in. Nothin very concrete, but most of what I
found said the atip info is accurate with possible exceptions. Either
purposely false info, or incapable burners (usual fix was to upgrade
the drives firmware). A few sites were aware of the of the article
Peter posted and here's the general answer to it:
"There is this one article on the interenet where this "expert"
claims that ATIP information is unrealiable. However, this expert
happens to be a bulk CD-R retailer and it is not his interest if
people start snooping around for the manufacturer info."
OTOH, I found one that seemed to somewhat agree:
"In the real world, the blank dies used to press CD recording media
may have bad information on the manufacturer and dye system .. so use
that info at your own risk."
That came from a CD-RW drive manufacturers site, Yamaha. It could
be construed as the 'purposely false atip' warning I found on many
sites. But, those warnings most often said the recording time and/or
speed was overstated. Something I've long suspected.
There was one general consensus tho. There's only a few CDr
manufacturers, but those are sold under 100's of brand names.
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