Sony 50-Pack 40x CD-R, Two for 17.98 CompUSA

[Muse]

In today's Sunday S.F. Chronicle ad-insert. They are $17.99 each but you get $9 Instant Savings. Don't know if they'll ring up just one like that.

How good are these CD-R's likely to be (compared to Taiyo Yuden, say)?

 

[alaskadan]

Can I use my $5 off $25 coupon for these, or do they take off the $9 IR before the coupon?

 

[thirdlegstump]

Crappy CRC media. I've got a spindle.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Crappy CRC media. I've got a spindle.

When you say crappy CRC do you mean that you have experienced problems? What specific issues have you experienced? Unplayable disks after write or some time after write?

 

[Ghettocowboy]

media code please

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
media code please

I don't know if this is the media code, I doubt it, but the only thing in the ad resembling a code is: #282723.

 

[misterj]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Crappy CRC media. I've got a spindle.

what do you use to identify? i got this from cdridentifier 1.46

ATIP: 97m 24s 16f
Disc Manufacturer: Sony Corp.
Assumed Dye type: Phthalocyanine (Type 6)
Media type: CD-Recordable
Recording Speeds: min. unknown - max. unknown
nominal Capacity: 702.83MB (79m 59s 74f / LBA: 359849)

grey writable top, silver bottom.

 

[bupkus]

Phoenix has two stacks of 50 for $39.98 after instant savings.
They just say Sony DVD+R.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Crappy CRC media. I've got a spindle.

I think you meant CMC, right? CMC Magnetics? They've been known to produce some rather crappy CDR's, some not so crappy. I got this from reading a bunch of threads, not personal experience. I have some CMC CDR's (Imation's) from around 3 years ago that have recorded and stood up OK so far, AFAIK. Anyway, if misterj is right a couple of posts back, these are NOT CMC's. Anybody got anything to say about the quality, particularly longterm of these? I know, the Assumed Dye type: Phthalocyanine is probably what CDIdentifier terms a short-term strategy, for what that's worth.