On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:50 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:12 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
TDK, Memorex, Imation, Verbatim, I don't believe ANY of those actually make their own disks. My TDK's have a media code of "CMC MAG. AM3", which is, I believe, CMC Magnetics,<snip>
Hmm - sounds like we need a corollary to Nero's InfoTool for Linux to get at that....
Nope. Cdrtools/cdrecord can read all that stuff and tell you what you want to know. CLI though.
that said, I've burned 100s and 100s of the Costco 16X TDK "CMC MAG. AM3" DVDs with very very few problems. I've had several DVD burners, currently mostly using a Pioneer DVR-112D (16x DL), previously I had a "Sony" that was really a rebranded LiteOn, but after a couple years of heavy use, it started getting too many burn errors, so I retired it.
I've always bought the store brands except for once (wanted "High Speed" compatible CD). I burn 'em at full speed, test 'em carefully and can any bad ones - very few to-date. The savings are great enough that if I have to trash one or two, NP. Of course, if you've something more important to do, it does cost a Little of your time and may not be worth the savings.
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