Posted by Rick Merrill on 04/16/07 18:48

GMAN wrote:
....
> The only time I have ever seen isues myself with rewriteable media is when you
> don't match the proper media to the PC recorder or Standalone recorder. I have
> some DVD-RW's that i have used repeatedly over 300 times in my standalone Sony
> RDR-GX7 and still going strong.

You are right, disk breath :-) The absorbtion spectrum of the dye must
match (center on) the power spectrum of the laser. The trouble is that
this info is company proprietary (unpublished) so you are best off by
matching the manufacturer with the recorder. I suspect those TY folk
have done the best reverse engineering of this issue.

And of course others are faking the TY brand:
http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-how-to-tell-fake-or-real.html

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