Posted by GMAN on 03/01/06 05:45

In article <43fb0ad9.4018515@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On 20 Feb 2006 12:15:08 -0800, "Al" <aajiv@flash.net> wrote:
>
>>I buy the best DVD-R's
>
>Unless it's Taiyo Yuden (TY), it's either crap or a crap shoot. I
>decided that after 12 out of 90 Verbatim discs ended up coasters. And
>I am using the popular NEC 3540.
>

You crack me up. You tell everyone to buy the best disks which are taiyo Yuden
but then brag all around here about you owning one if not the cheapest settop
piece of crap burner on this planet, bought at walmart no less.


>So I buy only TY 8x discs at rima.com, supermediastore.com or
>meritling.com. I got 100 TY 8x -Rs for 32 cents each, 37 with shipping
>costs. Shipping is about the same as sales tax and gas for local
>purchases.
>
>>'No Disk', what the heck it going on?
>
>The disc is no good. I had that happen to me until I started using TY
>discs. I had over 100 discs go bad on me because I used crap like
>MemorWrecks, etc.
>
>Try playing it in a standalone - they can sometimes be more forgiving
>of bad discs.
>
>Also a good rule is to burn 8x discs at 8x and 16x discs at 12x. The
>burn time is not much different when I use 8x discs, and they are
>cheaper.
>
>

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