best CD brand for VCD

[epic47]

What I'm looking to buy new CDs, what is the best brand of CD's for VCD's?

[Jeomite]

If you're looking to maintain this VCD for a long life span, get one of the good brands that use the Phalocynane dye aka Taiyo Yudan factory-made CDRs. Some popular brands are FuijFilm, *most* Sony and *most* TDK. Look for the 'Made in Japan' on the label. If it's made in Japan there's like a 95% chance it's Taiyo Yudan. =)

[epic47]

Cool beans....thanks.

[johare]

CompUSA has Fuji 80min/700mb CDR's on sale this week for $12.49 for a spindle of 50 and they are made by Taiyo Yuden...or at least the ones I picked up were. Look for the off-white screwtop on top of the spindle cover. HP CDR's I've seen at KMart and Office Max have also been Taiyo Yuden. All TDK's i've seen recently have been either Ritek or TDK USA.

btw: The $12.49 is $24.99 with a $7.50 instant rebate and a $5 mail in rebate. The CompUSA by me was just selling them for $12.49 since they messed up the UPC code on all the packages.


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[Erwin]

I would get Verbatim DataLife Plus, TDK, Imation, or Memorex. I don't know too much about Fuji though. I read somewhere on one site where they rated all the CD-Rs out there and Fuji was on the lower end (not sure which site though, but it was very detailed).

[VidGuy]

Interesting link on CD quality:

http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_quality.shtml

[next]

Great link vidguy. I've stumbled on it before and its got some good info. I don't think the Fuji's they rate are the same ones that are available today. I personally think just about any name brand will perform well.

By the way OfficeMax had a sale on the Fugi's a few weeks ago for $7.00 net after rebates. Haven't tried them yet but I'm sure they're fine.

edit -

There's also a good explanation of phthalocyanine and cyanine dye CDR's here:

http://www.cd-info.com/CDIC/History/Commentary/Parker/stcroix.html

I feel comfortable with either.



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[VidGuy]

The way you can tell is to get a copy of CD Identifier:

http://www.gum.de/it/download/index.htm

and compare the ATIP codes. I suspect for most things almost any CD today will work OK - after all, most of us aren't putting them into an oven! There's a lot of debate as to whether using temperature to accelerate aging is even a fair test for determine an MTBF.

[Erwin]

Thanks for the link, VidGuy- that was the link I was looking for.