Hi,

I wonder what brand is best in USA for CDR media?

I buy alot of these brands:

Imation 40x

Memorex 40x

Sony 48x

TDK 40x

Optimum 48x

Fuji 32x

Cirquit City (this is store brand) 40x

Staples (store brand too) 40x

In the USA, all of your discs are made by CMC except the sony and Fuji. Personally, i won't use anything but Fuji (TY) for important data.

Mitsui Archive GOLD
or
TDK Medical

depends on what color you prefer

Fujis are excellent. You can also get Memorex media that's not CMC. The cake box label says "Made in Japan". The top of the discs are also a little different. They have a shattered glass logo on them. I haven't bought any 48x certified, but I checked some 40x, and they were TY manufactured.

About Sony media. . . I was desperate and bought a spindle of 80 min 32x discs. label on cake box said made in Taiwan. These were indetified as manufactured by "maybe" LeadData,SONY. Nasty!!! The SMART-BURN speed limit on these was 32x, but the discs produced were loaded with errors. I had to throttle all the way back to 12x to get error free burns. I'm sure Sony makes better media than this, but I'll definitely be staying away from the silver topped 32x "Supermas"

Well my Sony CDR's are gold colored, and speed rated on the box x48, I didnt tried them yet, becose I just fixed my problem with my Sony burner, I was getting a lot of not readable CD.So now I got that straitendout, so yesterday I burned like 4 CD at x48 speed, no errors averaged 3.00 min. burn time. And media was cheap, I buy all my CDR at Circuitcity, BestBuy, so with the mail in rebait it's cheap, say I boght 100 CD spindel for 20$ at Staples, an I'am getting 20$ mail in rebait back, can't beat that
So thous CDR where Optimum brand, I thought they gonna be shidy, but turn's out they Ok, no errors, just one thing, when I do surface scan with Nero CD speed the very last cluster comes out red (unreadable) it's 0.10 %, but CD's works fine I record a lot of movies, I played them they work just fine!
Now I have a question, what means CMC & TY, and what the diferents?
So so far I came to conclusion that FUJI & TDK is best CDR.
And where you getting that smart-burn limit is it in nero? Becose I'am using Burnatonce!

rdgrimes

maybe you could "sticky" this quote and this would help all newbies answer their questions (including me) . From reading the forums, most posters would say that your statement is accurate.

Alan

The Memorex Black CD-Rs are made by Ritek; what about those?

These are covered in the media test thread.

48x Fuji (TY) seems to be the choice.

Questions:

Ignoring price for the moment, are 48x TY's (such as those at cdrplanet.com or blank-cd-cdr.com) at the same preference level as 48x Fuji's or is it preferred to buy the Fuji labeled ones?

48x Fuji:
Are all 48x Fuji's TY's?
Can they be specified?
If not are there any vendor(s) who will always give you the right 48x Fuji's?

48x TY:
Is there a way to specify the versions preferred by this forum?
Are there any vendor(s) who will always give you the right 48x TY's?

In the USA, all Fuji 48x are TY.
All TY are the same, they only make one type of CDR. Older TY media is rated from 24x to 32x by various packagers, but all 40x and 48x TY media is the same.

Thanks.

I am a CRW-F1 owner (apparently in a sea of happy Lite-On owners). Is it a reasonable assumption that 48x Fuji (TY) would be an equally good choice for my use?

Yes.

TDK Medical -- you can get these from C&C -- www.ccmedical.com

Not in the US, but your Northerly neighbour Canada, and I use Mitsui Gold (52x) media... these things are great...

fufifilm MIT is made by prodisc, TY fujifilm is getting rare, and I haven't seen any good deal on the fujifilm media lately, I used to see $9.99 per 50, but now they are $19.99.

In Korea, TY is the best media and Verbatim Azo is also very good.

To be the "best" media in this thread means both good and cheap. Taiyo Yuden CD-R media in South Korea may be just as good but not cheap (due to monopoly and tax.)

Congrats, you just bumped a 2 year old thread. Just to add my .02 cents though, I agree that TY is definitely the way to go for CD-R. Especially if you live in the US.

TY CD-R is getting RARE, most Fuji I find are MIT prodisc, back in the old day, almost every spindle of Fuji is made in Japan, now good luck finding Fuji made in Japan. The only TY media that are readily available is the Maxell Pro and Maxell Audio, but you have to pay the premium for the "Pro" and "audio"

Sam's Club has a 75 pack of 32x Maxell CD-R Music discs (TY) for $16.33. That's 22 cents a disc.

DRF

Not bad if you have a Sam's club near you. Although you can get 100 unbranded TY from rima.com for just a little bit more and they are 52x. www.rima.com *EDIT* also, the music CD-Rs are limited to just one application.

What do you mean by that?

DRF

No there is no law limitting you burning data on CD-R music disc, just that CD-R audio has tax already added to the disc so you are paying levy premium for audio disc.

Ah, okay my undestanding is that those were ones that were specifically designed for music and wouldn't deal with data. So "music" just means a higher price-tag? Lame.

At 22 cents per disc for TYs, this isn't what I would call a high price tag. at rima.com, 52x TYs are 26 cents per disc.

DRF