Originally posted by: misterj
haha very tempting indeed. ive long since switched to only buying the best - tayo yuden (fujifilm). maybe ill pick up a spindle anyways in case i get tempted to fling frisbees at the property manager who keeps giving me tickets..
I really don't understand the TY "fanaticism". They are hardly the "best" CD-Rs, although, they are at least decent quality, for a reasonable price (when on sale or after rebates). However, they use cyanine dye, which is the worst in terms of longevity as compared to p-cyanine and metal azo. I still personally prefer, after extensive testing, Mitsubish Chemicals-made metal azo discs. I don't even know if they make them any more, but I've never had any compatibility problems with them, ever, in any playback device, nor quality issues with the discs, nor readability issues with them, several years later. I have had various issues with Fuji TY discs, including some recent batches of blanks that I purchased that had "splotchy" dye layers, and after burning, were unreadable in some of my devices, even though the burner could still read them fine.
My current choice, for lowest error rates, and best compatibility even with flaky devices, are Maxell-branded high-quality Ritek discs. They actually have lower error rates than T-Y, use p-cyanine dye for (theoretically) greater longevity, and have higher compatiblity among the devices that I've personally tested them on.
The days of the reign of T-Y discs are over, I'm afraid.
(I will say that any of the above three discs mentioned, is still a major step above any CMC-made disc. I've had K-Hypermedia discs, "fade away" about a year after burning them, and their oldest cyanine-based media was possibly the worst on the planet. Thankfully they don't even make cyanine-based media anymore. T-Y still does, probably because they invented that type of dye, and probably because it's cheap to make, as compared to the other dye types.)
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