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*cd pirate* · 06-10-2002

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Originally posted by H.K. Phooey
Hi. I've been doing a lot of videocapturing of my old VHS videos, mostly old anime cartoons & have been converting the mpeg files to PAL VCD's. All of them have been done on my Asus 4012a at 4x speed,as I want to be sure of the best possible burn, using Nero 5.5.8.2.

Originally I'd been burning the files to Mitsui Gold's 74min (1-12x rated). This had been painless & the home made VCD disk's worked fine on both WinDVD on the PC,& my Toshiba SD2500 DVD player.

I've since been using Kodak Ultima 80min Silver & Gold's CD-R's (1-12x) , creating a 2nd backup set of VCD's,(using the original Mpegs),intending to use one set & keep the other as the original master VCD's in storage & enable me to delete the mpegs off the PC.

I've since been discovering that whilst there are no FILE errors under Nero's Scandisk & CD quality check utils, the Mitsui Gold's have come up worse than the Kodak Silver & Gold's for read errors & yellow blocks,(say 1-2%), versus Kodak's S&G Ultima's with 0 errors on CD Quality check & usually 0-0.5% yellow blocks on Scandisk.

At this stage I'll probably use the Kodak's Silver & Gold's as my master backups & use the Mitsui Gold's for when I want to watch VCD's on my PC or DVD player. My question is,are the Kodak Silver & Gold's long-lasting? How well do they fare compared to the Mitsui Gold's?

Sorry for the long-windedness of the question, but I want to delete the mpegs off my Harddisk,but not until I can be sure they're safe.

i question the quality of kodaks gold cdrs. they were not very durable at all and lost their recording layer easily. the silver and golds might be alright but im not sure. i think it depends on where they are made, i might of got some ireland made ones. you should check where they are made just to be on the safe side.