I currently don't have problem with CMC but i'm still scare

[warlock110]

i stumbled across 50 pack of TDK CMC DVD+R and let me tell u, after i found out there's no way of returning them. So far i've burned about 15 disc, all have worked flawlessly on my DVD players as well as my xbox, but i still have 35 more to go, is there such thing as good CMC disc? hehe, oh well, atleast i pick up some good DVD-R at BB today, any one experience difficulty with the TDK CMC batch at Costco? man costco really gets me this time.

[Capmaster]

Even the bad brands have good batches. What makes them "bad", like CMC, is more the inconsistency between lots than anything else. Some will be very good and some will be unusable.

I have actually gotten good Princo discs in the past (before I knew about them). Then all of a sudden they were unusable in any of our machines.

Count your blessings that you got one of the good batches, and just avoid them in the future

[Treebeard]

Since you are scared about them take a few precautions when burning.
Burn at 2x only, dont go over the 4gb mark. Next time dont purchase CMC's.

[TerminalVeloCD]

Actually, CMC's latest offerings are really not that bad at all! I'm not a fan of CMC myself, preferring Taiyo Yuden and RITEK, however, I've been using some of CMC's 48x/52x CD-R media and 4x/8x DVD+/-R media lately and my tests show that error rates are more than acceptable. How well the discs burn will depend on your writer and the writer's firmware. LiteON DVD writers seem to work very well with CMC CD-R and DVD+R discs but don't work so well with CMC DVD-R. Pioneer and NEC DVD writers seem to write to CMC CD-Rs and all CMC DVD media very well, although you may need to slow CMC 8x DVD+/-R media down to 4x for excellent results.

YMMV.

Regards,
TerminalVeloCD

[888888]

i stumbled across 50 pack of TDK CMC DVD+R and let me tell u, after i found out there's no way of returning them. So far i've burned about 15 disc, all have worked flawlessly on my DVD players as well as my xbox, but i still have 35 more to go, is there such thing as good CMC disc? hehe, oh well, atleast i pick up some good DVD-R at BB today, any one experience difficulty with the TDK CMC batch at Costco? man costco really gets me this time.

CMC DVD+Rs are not as bad as their DVD-Rs. In fact, I remember seeing some very good KProbe scans for them. Don't worry, be happy. And if you are burning VERY important data or video, I suggest you buy some 1st class media. Otherwise, use the CMCs and verify with NERO.

[DVD_Ripper]

Even the bad brands have good batches. What makes them "bad", like CMC, is more the inconsistency between lots than anything else. Some will be very good and some will be unusable.

I have actually gotten good Princo discs in the past (before I knew about them). Then all of a sudden they were unusable in any of our machines.

Count your blessings that you got one of the good batches, and just avoid them in the future

I've noticed the same with some ProdiscS03's .... been working fine for a year ... now some occassional skipping / freezing on a few of 'em.

[Capmaster]

Even the bad brands have good batches. What makes them "bad", like CMC, is more the inconsistency between lots than anything else. Some will be very good and some will be unusable.

I have actually gotten good Princo discs in the past (before I knew about them). Then all of a sudden they were unusable in any of our machines.

Count your blessings that you got one of the good batches, and just avoid them in the future

I've noticed the same with some ProdiscS03's .... been working fine for a year ... now some occassional skipping / freezing on a few of 'em.

That's how the Princos started out. Then I got a couple hundred where only 30 or 40 were usable. Pure crap. I'm a Maxell man now ...life's too short to deal with the budget media anymore :P

[warlock110]

i'll let u guys know how it turn out after a couple of days, i'll finish the CMC batch real quick