does cheap cdr's make a difference....

[oxide]

to quality of the vcd.
thanx

[Greg12]

believe it or not yes.

Cheap media and cheap dye will produce an inferior picture.

for best playback, I got a recomindation of these companys

Verbatium
TDK
Memorex
Imation

for long life, use Verbatium or Imation. Their dyes last for about 100 years

[wildcatfan]

Well I have to disagree. Sometimes you have to burn cheap media slower and you get a few coasters. But what I have found is if it burns correctly for the most part it works fine.

Michael

[Greg12]

I've read that high quality CD-R's produce a better picture.

Also that gold dye is the best dye of them all. Second is Metaline Azo blue

[gambit32]

I don't notice a difference in picture quality, but I do have to burn at lower speeds. Otherwise, they're fine.

[DVantrease]

In my experience, it's not the 'video quality' really thats effected, but rather the reliability of the DVD player to be able to play the file. This in turn can effect the quality of the playback. I tried cheap CompUSA brand cd's, half of them wouldn't even burn at 2x, and the ones that did burn didn't seem to play as smoothly as the namebrands. I'm happy with Memorex, which can be had for a good deal.

[Vejita-sama]

Price Costco - 100x 80min TDK 16x for $29.95 (at least the one in Seattle that I visit)

[maxqa]

I agree with DVantrease. Much depends on the reliabilty of the DVD player, but I also believe that there is dependancy on both the CD-R burner you use and the "quality" of the CD you use. Whilst some combinations will work fine others won't. You just have to find a combination that works well for you!
Generally though you are more likely to get better results using "high quality encoding",a good quality burner and good quality CD-R's.

[aldus4]

I thought we all store digitally - as I learnt in Digital storage, you either have or haven't a signal. How can you get colour fading, sharpness variations??? Sorry, just don't believe it! Yes, I agree durability is an issue, but giving 100 years guarantee I do have to laugh - who's going to make a claim in 100 years...and where?

I'd be happy if they last 10 years

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[incognito]

Yes, of course it's stored digitally. But there are bits and
then there are bits. Less expensive media could,
possibly, fail to burn properly. What you wind up with
then is a disc with bit errors that need to be corrected--
akin to a scratch in an audio cd (or the new copy
protection scheme for audio cds for that matter).

The result can be a disc with degraded quality (if
some of the bit errors don't get corrected properly) or
a disc that won't play/skips/etc (if there are too many
errors that can't be corrected).

As you can probably imagine, all this depends
a whole lot on the type of player you have, the
type of burner you use, and the speed that you burn at.

And, of course, the quality of the media.

I use mostly khyperedia cdr that I get from outpost.com,
and they play nicely in my sampo 560 when burned at
4x by me sony 8x/4x cdrw.

Your milage may vary.