I'm curious to know why?

[munkee]

Why are some CDR brands better than the other? I've noticed through burning some cheap ones that the burn process can be noisy sometimes. However, they still play and work fine.

What makes a CDR better? Is it the plastic. they all seem to be made the same way? Or are they?

[zypha]

Let take generic drugs for example vs brand name: insert what ever drug you want, ,what is the differnce, the both have the same chemical, but the brand names us a purer form of chemical, same with cd's, thats why if you use acme cdr's and then use TDK music cdr' the TDK will sound better, ,but if you use them for data not much difference. I hope that helps:x

[rmanet]

some cheap ones that the burn process can be noisy sometimes

when that happens with me it's because the burner or cdrom drive is spinning up and down trying to read some cra$$y compusa cdr......

media does sometimes make a difference if you're looking to play backup copies, or even music CDs in older home or car stereo players

just wait for the weekly sale and rebate offers - the unmarked and generic stuff may be good and cheap, but where does that get you when suddenly a CD doesn't read or play for you?

I started with that stuff and learned a long time ago that it ain't worth the aggravation - always had good luck with Maxell, TDK, Verbatim

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Personally i use cheapo £3 for a pack of 10 CD's from some company called Terayin and they beat the hell out of the ones i use to use from Philips which used to burn badly and then would be unable to read certain files after burning :mad:

--You dont always get what you pay for...

--Jakk:t

[Eric Legge]

Question

You have created a CD full of digital pictures for your daughter. The CD works fine on your Windows XP machine at home and on your Windows NT machine at work. But your daughter's computer will not even recognise the CD. She doesn't have any problems with the computer recognising any other CDs. You want to know if there is a way to make that CDs run on your daughter's computer.

Answer

You are experiencing the often-perplexing realm of CD-to-system incompatibility. Several factors can come into play with regard to system incompatibility, such as is the CD a CD-R, or a CD-RW?

CD-RW disks are far less compatible in older machines than CD-Rs, so you may be able to resolve the problem by copying the data to a CD-R disk. If it already is a CD-R, you may be able to solve the problem by copying the data to a different brand of CD-R disk.

When I first started creating CDs, the JVC CD player in my car would play from every brand of CD-R except HP CD-Rs, and my Sony 6-disc CD changer would play from almost every brand of CD-R except Sony CD-Rs. Strange but all too true. So, try a different brand of CD-R disks..

If a computer is elderly in computing years, and cannot read any brand of CD-Rs, then it is the CD-ROM drive that is out-of-date and incompatible, and you will have to replace it if you want to read CD-Rs on that computer.

Eric,

http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm

[Picard]

Originally posted by zypha
... thats why if you use acme cdr's and then use TDK music cdr' the TDK will sound better, ,...


LOL


Can you say Digital? Audio CD's are a digital format, same as data. They are going to sound identical.