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Posted by Wei Xian Sheng on 12/30/05 05:33
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:46:19 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:59:34 GMT, "Large Farva" <none@nospam.com>
>wrote:
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>>>>> Taiyo Yuden. No others come anywhere close.
>
>>>> ...except of course for Ritek.
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>>> except Ritek suck
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>>LOL! Good joke, man! If you think Riteks suck you need a better burner or
>>better burning skills.
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>While it is true that some burners work well with some brands, current
>data on all brands except TY show that it's either a crap shoot or
>pure crap. This began only a few months ago and caught most people by
>surprise. Even venerable brands like Verbatim (rated second to TY)
>have shown bad batches. Riteks (third ranked) have also shown sporadic
>problems.
>
>It used to be that if a company was based in Japan, they always
>shipped high quality optical media. Unfortunately that's no longer
>true as of the past few months. Only TY can be trusted until it
>violates our trust.
Lately, most brands including name brands have been contracting to CMC
Magnetics in Taiwan. And, CMC Magnetics makes crap. A relative gave
me a 50 disc spindle of HP branded discs. Pure crap -- yep, CMC Mag.
I tried Ritek. Burns good. Plays good. Aha, I thought. But, after
5 of 6 months most of the Ritek's are no longer playable in a
standalone. And, not just mine either. They sorta' play, but will
stall, stutter, and sometimes just plain lockup.
I personally won't buy or use ( - even considering a gifts) anything
BUT Taiyo Yuden. I started using them about 6 months ago and have
never looked back!
-wxs-
Par files, the Stemcells of Usenet
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