Balck CD-Rs

[Marxs]

anyone got any info on these except how cool they look. A lot of poeple say there awesome for audio and worse for video is that true or just some idiots?

[likkletree]

R U of this earth ? What the hell R U on about ? Please verify and elaborate .!!!

[likkletree]

OH ! Black CD-Rs I Get U now..... They R brilliant 4 PSX & I have had no problems with them on audio ! Don't know about VCD though !!

[Marxs]

Yeha sorry about that it was 4am in the morning and having bad typing skills doesnt help i seem to press A befor the letter instead of after like ill write "ahte or balck" well i guess ill or a pack found a site where their cheap they look cool so ill buy some.

[D_Knife]

I have used two types of Black CD's
The first was "Pyrod" brand and these work fine for most things. For me the downside was it has a black & white label, blocking the use of a decent label.

The second brand is some unknown brand. They look very good with just a plain white top , just begging for a glossy colour label.

I'm watching a VCD on one of these in my Pioneer 535 at the moment with no problems, however the same disc in my cheapo Palsonic (Chinese) the picture is just a rainbow blur of macro blocks. I used some of these to with DivX movies and some notebook CD-Rom drives spat the disc back as unknown, even just trying to read the filesystem. I have also had some PC CD-Rom drives failing with the same errors as well.

[Marxs]

hmm anythign you suggest i dont want them since they sound liek they create to many problems. Any CD-Rs with plane Silver(like professional games). Im sick of these green/blue CD-Rs with lame company logos on the top. Any links to a good site.

[vitualis]

Commercial CDs (e.g., games) aren't burnt on CD-R. They are pressed CDs.

Regards.

[Feslmogh]

I myself bought "teh" Memorex Black CD-R's and used them on my Philips DVD711 they work Great! The reason they use the black covering aside from looking cool is to add extra protection from scratches (hence the young kids playing their Playstations). Where they got the BLack CD-RW on the comparasons I don't know...

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[vitualis]

I doubt very much the black colouring provides any sort of scratch resistance. This is just a dye added to the polycarbonate substrate.

Regards.

[mijman]

Actually, I keep hearing that it IS for scratch resistance, especially in the case of PSX games, but whenever I rent them, they are simply OBSCENE with scratches. What would they look like if they weren't "resistant"? I'm getting tired of buffing out scratches on discs that I don't even own. That applies to DVDs too. What is wrong with people that they abuse poor defenseless cds like this??

[homerpez]

I think that the scratch coating and black layer co-exist, but are not synonymous.

I've used Kodak Gold CD-R's which had a virtually transparent coating which worked nicely, so I don't think the color matters.


I don't know if it's worth the "looking awesome" factor to have a CD-R not work on my Apex...

[pacmania_2001]

I have read on a lot of sites that the black layered CD's do offer better protection then other colours but whether they are the best. I thought Kodak's gold layered would be. As for Pyrod CD's mentioned above i would recommend staying away from them. I bought a 100 pack of them not knowing how shit they are. To burn them i have to lower the burn speed to 4X and even then they only last at max 2 months. My record for shortest lasting was 2 days.

[dancoe]

there is a coating on some cd-r's and i beleive there are different patents, one brand being INFOGUARD.

but as vitualis said the dye would have no relevance.

[Greg12]

the black you see protects the recording dye from uv rays.

iomega zipcd hates gold cd-r's.

it burns them at 1x and sometimes can't focus the burn laser at all.



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[Brainchild]

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On 2001-08-14 05:32:12, Feslmogh wrote:
I myself bought "teh" Memorex Black CD-R's and used them on my Philips DVD711 they work Great! The reason they use the black covering aside from looking cool is to add extra protection from scratches (hence the young kids playing their Playstations). Where they got the BLack CD-RW on the comparasons I don't know...

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The Black is to protect the CD's from U/V light