CD-Rs (quality???)

[dg_phillips]

I have been having the weirdest things happen with VDCEASY. I have normally used Imation 80 minute 700MB CDRs and they always record at the correct speed (48x). I just recently bought some Verbatims and they would not record but at 8X. So I took those back and exchanged them for Imations again and now these Imations are only recording at 8X. I have been puzzled about this so I tried a FujiFilm 80 minute 700MB CDR and it records properly at 48X. I also tried a Memorex 80 minute 700MB CDR and it also records at 48X. What gives here. I have always been led to believe that Imation made a good product. Verbatim (okay but not up there with the best)...so who makes the best CDRs anymore. I will end up taking these Imations back and replace them with something that records at the proper speed. Anyone know anything about this???

Dan

[curryman]

Don't be so quick to judge.
maybe it's just a cockup at the factory with printing the right speed on discs(pretty big cockup, i grant you) but just a cockup all the same.

[vitualis]

Or, it could be a bug in CDRDAO...

Regards.

[Gazorgan]

Typical symptoms of older software. Your burning software doens't recognize the CDR disk ID, so it defaults to some value for burning speed. I had this happen with new disks and older Roxio 4. Try Nero 6 and see if they burn at speed. It can also be a firmware issue with your burner ($40 burners don't always recognize every media type).

[RabidDog]

sure its not your burner thats limiting the speed? vcdeasy doesnt really have much influence except to burn at lower than the top speed.