Second time posting, can anyone help?

[Demily]

I am very new at this process and am having some difficulties. First of all, I am using an RCA 5220P DVD player. It does not work well with many types of cds. The compatibility pages you have show that it will work with blue layered CDRs and Siler layered CDRWs. I have been using silver layered CDRWs and have found that it takes them sometimes and other times it will not. I attempted to find blue layered CDRs and had no luck. Of course, Ihave a real problem telling the color green from blue, so I guess that doesn't help. Do you have an idea of what manufacturers use blue layered CDRs?
I have also downloaded Sefy's templates for TMPGEnc and am having problems with blockiness on a finished VCD. What can I do to improve that?

[next]

The Verbatim Data Life Plus are a deep blue. Be careful because the regular Data Life are not.

[thxkid]

Be careful sometimes blue means it wants the lighter blue
like the CD-RW and I know of only 2 brands that use that color of dye the Frys older brand of CD-R's GQ 8x and the Sony 8x or 12x CD-R's. My toshiba 2050 will only use these to play.

[FLASHOFLANAGAN]

this may be a little off the subject, but why does the CD ink color have anything to do with whether it runs or not? ust wonderin. (a CD is a CD is a CD, in my opinion)

[FLASHOFLANAGAN]

bump...

[vitualis]

The organic dye layer is what is altered during the burning process. Some CD drives have a preference or an aversion to particular dye types. This usually isn't an issue for newer CD drives, however.

For DVD drives which are not designed to read CD-R/W media (many stand-alone DVD players), the dye type does seem to play a role (as do many other factors) on whether the disc will be read properly at all.

Regards.

[kinneera]

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Interesting way of putting it...all that's really going on is that the dye+reflective layer has to reflect within a certain range of light wavelengths. Different dye and reflective layer combinations produce results with a degree of variability, and with a low-tolerance read laser, some will work better than others.

[nightwing7]

Use Gigastorage, silver-blue, they work on most player i tried, there cheap too!!


Oh ya cd dye has to do with reflectivity too!