850MB (90min) CD-R?

[PINOCCHIO]

Does any know where can I buy some 850MB CDs?

Thank you

[mats.hogberg]

Where do you live?

/Mats

[PINOCCHIO]

I live at Alpharetta, GA

[PINOCCHIO]

I've visited lots of stores and non of them carry the CD....

[mats.hogberg]

Sorry - then I'm not the one to help you out - I'm halfway across the globe... 8) Here in Sweden, no electronics "Super Markets" carry anything other than 84/80 min, but some smaller computer specialist dealers do.

/Mats

[TheLostTimberwolf]

I live in australia and have been lucky enough to find a little shop that sells packs of 100 90 min cdr's.

Problem was that my burner at that time wasnt capable of burning 90 min cdr's it didnt even recognise there was a cd in the drive lol. So i did some looking around and found that the 90min cdr really isnt that supported(not sure why myself it holds more data, why the hell not give it good support??)

anyway i bought a lite on 48X and it burns them fine when i set up my software to overburn. so make sure if you do find some that you test your current burner out before making any large investment into the little shiny suckers

ciao,

TLTw

Edit ~ Was just looking around for possible online places to buy 90 min cdr and I found this http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=764 120 min cdr :P:P damn, I want some lol.

[Maverlck32]

This site is good too
http://www.inc-tech.com/shopping/index.asp?ca=267&cas=0
If you're planning to burn a movie on them or something, it probably wont work. Most dvd players dont support them. I suggest just buying a couple and seeing if they work before you waste your money on 100 of them. I dont know of any way to check if they'll play on your dvd player so just check them yourself.

[bloo]

i got some here:

http://www.blank-cd-cdr.com/cdr-media-90---99-minutes.html
just make sure your drive and software support them.i use the 99 mins for movies work fine in my apex and my mac, just put new harry potter on 1 - 99 min cd, they also sell a demo pack that has 5- 90 min cds and 5- 99 min cds check em out, bloo 8)

[explbob]

im not possitive but i think the reason the 90 min cds arent supported is cause the optical laser on the cd burner dosent actually go that far out on the cd, but i cant confirm that. someone once told me that about a problem i was having with a 80 min cdr. they said it is possible the burner wont read the 80 min cds and i should try the 70 min cdrs. it was a bad cd burner in the end, thank god for warranties

[sterno]

The basic reason 90/99min media are not always supported is that they violate the standards on how a CD is made. The original standard was for the 74-minute media, and it specified things like the size of the spiral and how tightly it's wound on the CD. If you take the tolerances in the spec and push all of them to the limit, you get an 80-minute CD - still within standards if it's manufactured correctly. 90/99min media wind the spiral even tighter and write out to the very edge of the disc, and violate the specs. Most hardware can read the media because the reader just locks in on the spiral, but sometimes it has trouble staying aligned all the way out at the edge of the disc. Many burners have firmware that doesn't allow you to overburn more than a certain amount past 80 minutes, and it's hard to keep the write laser aligned precisely all the way out at the edge of the disc (especially with these modern high-speed writers).

[Lextorite]

90 min CD-r's are BAD BAD BAD...DON'T USE THEM. All my latest audio and visual equipment won't play them as these drives are only designed for up to 80 mins.

90 min CD-r are only good to burn your computer data.

For VCD and Audio CD's...forget it.

[vitualis]

As what sterno said.

According to Orange Book Part II, there aren't anything bigger than 80min CDs...

@ Lextorite: it seems that you've had bad experiences with 90min media but it may just be the batch of discs you used. From independent review (e.g., a good review of a number of units at Tom's Hardware Guides) and personal experience, most CD drives will support 90 min discs reasonably well. However, support for 99min discs is a lot more patchy and IMHO, shouldn't be used if you require good support for your discs.

Regards.