Subj : blanks
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Sun Jan 26 2003 07:03 am

Hello Roy.

25 Jan 03 20:01, you wrote to all:

 RT> How fussy do I need to be with regard to worrying about what sort of
 RT> blanks I buy for this burner I just got?  Are there differences?  I
 RT> notice on the package of CD-R blanks I got that it says "Multi Speed
 RT> 40X",  while the burner is rated 48X,  does that matter?  Likewise,
 RT> the CD-RWs I got say "1X-4X Compatible" on the package,  but the
 RT> burner says it'll do those at 12X.  Do I need to worry about slowing
 RT> it down?  Or is this just a matter of the burner's technology having
 RT> gone way beyond what the people doing the packaging have kept up with?

Most of the "good" brands work well, and you will find some of the cheap 
brands might give you a few coasters here and there. I recon if a CD-RW says 
use at 4-speed, then do so, but as they are re-writeable, try at the 12X your 
writer says it can do,  and see what the results are. A lot of folks have 
long term reliability problems with read-write disks, but I have yet to run 
into this problem, but them my writer/software will not write faster than 4X 
on a 4X CD-RW.

I also believe in burning audio CD's at 2X, it seems to reduce the number of 
CD players that don't reliably read CD-R media very well, tho again you 
milage may vary.

Russell

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