These discs are manufactured by Philips meaning that you can rely on the reliability and compatibility that customers have come to expect from the Philips brand.
Professionally designed with a frosted silver top surface, Philips logo at the top of the disc and disc information displayed within the shiny silver strip at the bottom of the disc.
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Review by
Pete from
Ireland on
04/04/2008 10:49:09
Rating:
3 /10
Don't bother...
First of all, this is not CMC dye, it's Ritek!
Second, if you think you're getting good quality from Philips, think again.
I have used a Pioneer DVR111D (arguably not the best CDDA burner out there, but it should do the job on good media), at both 10x and 32x, to burn audio CDs for my slightly picky Sony main HiFi system, but the Sony can't read them at all!
This is the first time I see the CD changer not even being able to read the TOC of the media. Usually, the Sony reads TOCs and plays the media fine, and the problems only arise when trying to skip to higher tracks directly, as the pickup might need a few retries to position itself there. But this time, the CD player doesn't recognise the burnt media at all!
Burned a few 52x Verbatim right after (actual CMC dye) and they played fine, so it's definitely not a burner issue.
Granted, if you have a good CD burner and a not so picky CD player, you might be able to have some use of these media (same CDs read fine in my portable CD player or on the TV DVD player), but let's face it, if you're burning audio, you want your media to work everywhere, so I don't think these Philips will quite cut it.
To be fair to the brand, the best CD-R media I ever used were the Philips with the bluish TY dye that were sold circa '98. 10 years on, and these will play as fine as pressed media (even on a picky Sony -- no issue with skipping tracks whatsoever, which even newly burnt Verbatims even seem to have from time to time).
Is it just me or has CD-R dye quality been on the downside lately, even from major brands? Why is it so damn hard to find a CD-R media that is at least as good as what we had 10 years ago?
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