What makes #### brand disc crap?

[Toaster]

I've read here and alot of places that "so-and-so" disc are junk- Don't buy them, they're crap, etc...

What makes them crap? for instance: If someone buys CMC disc, or Infosmart disc, or TY fake disc... whatever... and they burn them ok, and they play ok- why are they crap?

Just curious.

[Red96TA]

For some reason, the dyes don't stand up after being burned with the information....after a few weeks/months/years, the information becomes unretrievable.

You need to think about logevity...

PLUS quality of construction is also a consideration. I just ran across a Ridata dvd-r that had dye spilled all over the hub of the disk. If it were me, I'd just use the disk anyway and hope for the best. However, since my disks go directly to customers who are expecting higher QC from me, any disk that I find flawed goes directly into the trash.

So there you have it...longevity and construction.

[dxj40c]

The reason you get so many opinions on the same disks is an indication that the manufacturer lacks an aggressive quality control program.

For example, you hear a lot of bad comments on CMC disks in this forum, yet others seem to have no problems. That would seem to indicate they have 'good' lots and 'bad' lots, this doesn't make them good or bad, just unreliable. This is my reason for avoiding them. These problems could be caught before they left the plant if they tested them-obviously they don't.

Another reason disks are bad is that when comptition gets tough, manufacturers start going on the 'cheap'. They can't raise prices so they have to cut costs to remain competitive so they start using cheaper materials to make the disks.

This applies to all industry. Their only goal is to get the product on the market asap and in the process skip the testing. Companies love to tout their quality, but production will always trump quality. I read somewhere that General Motors has recalled more cars this year than they have made this year. As consumers, we demand the lowest price and usually suffer when we get it.

[wwjd]

What makes a brand or a particular spindle of discs bad depends on what you do with them. If you have one fairly robust dvd player and that is the only place you will ever play the dvd then some marginal discs may seem ok.

However, if the discs you burn are going to be played on a number of dvd players, given as gifts and so on, well that is when the weaknesses will be flushed out. I am assuming that these disks are being played in DVD players that accept their particular format (-R or +R for example). Poor media will stick and skip and stutter when played on a variety of players.

wwjd

[ZippyP.]

Better disks will be more acceptable to wider variety of DVD players and will give good burns on a wider variety of DVD writers. You will notice in the DVD media section that some disks perform better in some writers than others. So one person may have success with brand X and someone else may not, it depends on their hardware. Also, the only way to really tell if you get a good burn is to use a program like DVDInfopro or Nero CD DVD Speed.

[lordsmurf]

I could write a dissertation on this topic.

[B2D327]

The reason you get so many opinions on the same disks is an indication that the manufacturer lacks an aggressive quality control program.

For example, you hear a lot of bad comments on CMC disks in this forum, yet others seem to have no problems. That would seem to indicate they have 'good' lots and 'bad' lots, this doesn't make them good or bad, just unreliable. This is my reason for avoiding them. These problems could be caught before they left the plant if they tested them-obviously they don't.

Another reason disks are bad is that when comptition gets tough, manufacturers start going on the 'cheap'. They can't raise prices so they have to cut costs to remain competitive so they start using cheaper materials to make the disks.

This applies to all industry. Their only goal is to get the product on the market asap and in the process skip the testing. Companies love to tout their quality, but production will always trump quality. I read somewhere that General Motors has recalled more cars this year than they have made this year. As consumers, we demand the lowest price and usually suffer when we get it.

Spoken like a true business major.