Generic CD-Rs

[joeb84]

Do you recommend using generic CD-Rs for VCDs? Has anyone had success with them? Please let me know. Thanks

[Headbanger's Ball]

All I use are generic CD-R's. I've used Teon's ($11 for 25 cdrs) and Durabrand ($25 for 100.) And haven't found a coaster that wasn't my fault. Why spend more for the same quality??? I feel that the making of cdr's has reached it's peak...they are as good as they are going to get.

[Conquest10]

nothing wrong with generic cd-rs. as long as it works, go ahead and do your thing.

[mats.hogberg]

I always use generic CD-R's. I once spoke to a Fuji representative, and asked him "What's the difference between your CD-R's and generics?"
The answer was - Fujis have a higher quality in terms of percent usable discs in a batch. Generics don't have the same quality control, resulting in let's say one unburnable CD in 100, Fuji one in 1000. So, according to this guy, if you can write to a CD-R, then the brand doesn't matter. You'll just find more duds in a batch of generics thanh in a batch of branded.

/Mats

[sterno]

A lot of times for VCD/SVCD the most important thing is whether or not your player will read the disc. Some players are picky and only work well with certain types. Apparently some prefer the higher-quality expensive ones, and others actually work best with cheap no-name discs. If you check the comments for your player in the DVD Players list people may say that certain brands do and don't work.

There are differences in quality that go beyond the number of bad discs in a lot, but for the most part they aren't important for VCDs. They would be for something like archiving irreplacable data, though.

For what it's worth, most of the generic silver-top discs come out of the same factories as most of the name brand discs do (almost all of them are CMC or Ritek). Some name brands put more quality-control requirements on the manufacturer, though.