Red dye Cd-r's do not burn well... They suck.

[WayneTeK]

Ok, last night, i tried burning some cd-r's, PNY, to be exact. The color of the cd-r's are red. WEll, i tried burning some data on them last night, and to my surprise, they dont' burn too well..

It isnt' my burner because after it wouldn't work, i used regular Imation cd-r's to burn the same data again, and it worked. Then i tried using the red cd-r's again, and it won't work.=

It does do a complete job and nero says it is done. But when the cd-r drive or the dvd drive try to read it, it has a very hard time reading it.

Can anybody diagnose this problem for me?

 

[TCPpacket]

i have some of those colored pny discs also. i haven't had any problem burning them with my plextor 12x or lite-on 32x, but i have to say they are very low quality. after about a couple weeks in my car, the songs started skipping and i noticed that bubbles start to form on the data side of the disc. they may look cool, but the quality isnt that great. too bad i have 200 more of them stacked away in my closet.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

PNY cdrs suck in general. Always have.

 

[Bignate603]

Your burner may just be picky, mine doesn't like ANY PNY discs, I use verbatim, sony and fuji.

 

[Skel]

I haven't tried those yet, the ones that I picked up from OfficeMax have a problem with the CD player in my car though...

 

[Gunbuster]

Can anybody diagnose this problem for me?

Some CDR's have problems in some burners
Find a brand that works and keep using them

 

[Placer14]

PNY discs are low quality. It's nott jus the red dye.

I try to stick to Memorex, Imation, Sony, TDK. Those are all very good brands.

 

[KokomoGST]

Stick with the CD manu houses that make good discs... packagers like TDK, Sony, etc change their suppliers and that sometimes results in much crappier disks.
There's a reason why some people on AT only buy Taiyo Yuden produced disks.

My preferred manu houses are, in order of preference, TY, Kodak (gold/platinum esp), CMC Magnetics... I use Riteks and other (non-Japan) Asian manus for junk CDRs. They have a failure rate that's plain unacceptable... sometimes they don't even take a burn correctly.

 

[43st]

Silver is the highest quality dye. All other colors are inferior, at least for the past 5 years.

I use Mitsui silvers. They're unbranded and rated quite well.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Thera
Silver is the highest quality dye. All other colors are inferior, at least for the past 5 years.

I use Mitsui silvers. They're unbranded and rated quite well.

Aren't they on the expensive side?

As to your question WayneTeK, besides the red PNY CDR's, have you had any issues w/ other colored PNY CDR's?

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Thera
Silver is the highest quality dye. All other colors are inferior, at least for the past 5 years.

I use Mitsui silvers. They're unbranded and rated quite well.

Aren't they on the expensive side?

As to your question WayneTeK, besides the red PNY CDR's, have you had any issues w/ other colored PNY CDR's?

Yeap, i used the silver colored ones and they are work great. haven't had a single problem with them. It seems that the colored ones are a problem to my Lite-On 48x Cd-rw burner.

 

[Evadman]

I have never really had a problem with any brand of cd-r's in any of my burners I have had over the years accepting burns.

Only problem I have ever really had is popping up now. Most of the CD's I burned in college (1998-1999) are now unreadable. the ToC can be read, but that is about all. They are all sony disks with blue/green (DARK!) coloring that were burned in a 2x mitsumi (I think) burner.

 

[Booster]

I try to stick to Memorex, Imation, Sony, TDK. Those are all very good brands.

I agree on all but Memorex. Had trouble with them (tend to lose data with time sooner than others). Strange, for my burner (NEC) all the brands (and non-brands) burn equally well, be it SKC, Samsung, Emtec or what not. Even non-branded CDRs burn quite well.

 

[helpme]

Mitsu is suppose to be higher rated than TY, but I haven't been able to test any of them.

 

[onza]

FUJI is very good media also

as mentioned b4

 

[Eli]

On a silver disc, the dye isn't silver - it's clear. You're seeing the reflective layer through the clear dye.