which cd media i should use?

[scotty00]

so like I have 2 types. one is black on the bottom and the other one is sliver. and on the front is blank so I can put a cd cover on it. so I have been using my black cds and burn the svcd everything looks good. but when i decide to use the sliver. all the svcd I burn come out all skippy an d all messup when I put it in my dvd player. which media type do you guys use? i can't get any of those black ones cause i can't find them anymore.

[hwoodwar]

At one point I was trying to determine the same thing...basically what is the highest quality CD-Rs I could buy in my area. Literally I searched/read stuff on the Internet for 6-8 hours. There was some varied opinions, but of everything I saw, there were more people saying Fuji CD-Rs, were high quality, than any other brand. Since, I am archiving stuff from tapes, and want it to last, now I only buy Fuji CD-Rs. I rather pay the $15-$20/50-pack rather than spend $5-$10/50-pack and get something that may scratch easily, or in some way degrade in a few years.

Be advised many companies do not manufacture their own CD's, Fuji included. Fuji's latest 48x CD-Rs are actually manufactured by a company; Taiyo Yuden, who is also known to produce quality CD-Rs.

[sterno]

If you watch for sales and mail-in rebates you can get Fuji's at around $5 for 50 CDs. And some Memorex spools are made by the same company, but most are made by some other (lower-quality) company. If the spool says "Made in Japan" it's probably high quality, there are only a couple manufacturers in Japan and they're pretty good.

However, with DVD players the quality of the media sometimes has to come second to the compatibility in a given player. Some players just don't like some media. Others will play anything you can stick in the tray. I would suggest just trying a few different types of CD-R, you may find that some work better than others.

[scotty00]

if i buy these brand name instead of those general with no name. I probalby won't like putting a cover on the cd. it would look to unprofessional... do you guys stick cover on your cd's? or just did what i used to do and use a sharpie to write on the cd?

[puertorican138]

scotty00, I would recommend TDK, Fuji Film, and Verbatim as the highest quality CD-R's you can get. :P

[sterno]

By "cd cover" do you mean these glue-on label kits? I don't use them. If they come loose they tend to take the top layer of the CD off, destroying it. Some of the cheaper ones also have glue that comes loose when it gets hot, so the label ends up coming off in the drive. If they have a writable top surface I just write on them with a permanent marker. If they're generic silver-top I write on the hub because some of those don't have any protective coating and some types of ink will react with the reflective layer and ruin the disc.