News of Recordable Media Discussion

I’m having a problem burning CDRs with my NEC 1300A (IDE), which is five years old. I also have another computer with an Optiarc 7200, but I would like to figure out why I’m having a problem doing CDRs on the older computer, which I still use.

For the first five years, I had no problems, but now, most of the times when I insert a blank CDR into the NEC, I get nothing at ...

I was wondering what people had to say about printable media (cd's and DVD's) and the printers that print on them. Mainly, I am interested in a general all-purpose color inkjet that can do the job and not a fancy dedicated (ie: expensive) printer. I haven't bought a new printer in years and years with the exception of a used HP 4050TN monochrome laserjet (best purchase ever) and I remember looking at inkjet printers at ...

Hi Folks,
I'm about to order a Sony AD7220A (IDE) for my ACER T120 machine (all IDE) - XP SP3 2Gb (max) Ram.

I'm almost too embarrassed :oops: to ask, but what is a decent quality DL media for such a drive ?

I’m guessing at +RW (as apposed to Minus) & +RAM.types,,, but what about Brands, Speeds, models etc ?

The machine is a normal, general ...

According to this, Mitsubishi Chemical will stop selling media under their own Mitsubishi brand in Japan and will introduce Verbatim brand media in September.

http://www.mcmedia.co.jp/japanese/news/press/0078.html

Mitsubishi Chemical media Ltd. (The headquarters: the Tokyo Minato Ward and president: Otsuka heavy morality) introduces a global brand its own " Verbatim(R) ()" that develops by 80 countries or more in foreign countries like Europe and America and Asia-Pacific, etc. into a Japanese ...

Erik has released a new version of Opti Drive Control. This one supports FE/TE tests for BenQ, Plextor and LiteOn drives.

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http://www.cdspeed2000.com/download.html

Added Focus Error (FE), Tracking Error (TE) test for BenQ, Plextor and LiteOn drives
Added function to load and display Opti Drive Control and ImgBurn performance information files
Added function to show temperature and laser current with Pioneer drives ...

I am planning to us Taiyo Yuden DVD+R's in the future to backup important files. If I label them using the Lightscribe technology or other thermal lacquer technology, will that in any way decrease the longevity/reliability of the disc? Thanks for the advice!

hi
while using audacity i found these dat files that audicity added to my documents...its part of the saved files for audicity.
could i safely delete these dat files?if so how?thanks

lenny

Has anyone tried Erik Deppe's Opti Drive Control software yet? It looks like he's taken the functionality from CD Speed and InfoTool with a new interface.

http://www.optidrivecontrol.com/

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Opti Drive Control is a test and benchmark utility for optical drives. It can be used to verify the performance, quality and reliability of ...

hello...

I use Taiyo Yuden blank CD-Rs at my mastering studio for both red book cda & referrence cdr's, for my clients.

On Taiyo Yudens...which number on the disk identifies it as an official TY...the # on front hub or the one on the edge of the back hub ???



I want to be able ...

IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT DVD’S MEDIA ID (MID)

If you’re having PROBLEMS OUT OF THE BLUE with ANY brand of DVDs or CDS that you have used successfully in the past, then consider that even when the physical appearance of a DVD hasn’t changed, it doesn’t mean the manufacturer have not TINKER WITH THE MID, they could have recently outsourced their operations or gotten a cheaper media provider (e.g. China and Malaysia are famous for their ...