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| 38908 | 2002-03-12 20:41:00 | For those of you with CD writers, what has been your experience with cheap CD's, such as 'Transonic' from the Warehouse, or 'Melody' from The Warehouse Stationary shops, or the equivalent cheapies at Dick Smith? The cheapies cost around 1 dollar each while the better ones $2. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the more $$ = better quality, but I wonder if in fact experience backs this up? All appear to be made in Taiwan. Does cheap imply that in a year or two the CD will deteriorate? Has PCWorld or Consumers done any testing on this matter? BTW, I notice that Kodak puts out a 'gold' CD which says that it will outlast any other type - this would be good for long-term data storage or those family photos for the archives. | Guest (0) | ||
| 38909 | 2002-03-12 21:11:00 | It all depends on what works for you. I like Verbatim, Sony, Imation. JM |
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| 38910 | 2002-03-12 21:20:00 | Yes cheap CDs are OK I'm on my third box of transonic 20m for $19.95 CDs are like TV sets, there are few actual manufactures but lots of people who put their labels on them. |
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| 38911 | 2002-03-12 21:33:00 | I (and others I know) have tried all the brands - sony, verbatim etc. Lucky to get an 80% success rate with these. Transonic from the Warehouse- 100% success every time...I am sold on them. Anybody want some unusable brand name blank cds? |
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| 38912 | 2002-03-12 23:12:00 | I am on my third box of 10 Melody discs purchased from Noel Leeming for $9.95. Used as data and music CD's and no coasters yet. J. |
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| 38913 | 2002-03-13 01:36:00 | Use the cheap ones, no problems, but must admit I buy HP for backup of important stuff (I hope then expensive = will last for a long time.) I made a number of coasters out of Kodak gold on our HP 8000 series CD writer. |
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| 38914 | 2002-03-13 02:58:00 | Ive been using Melody branded CD's from Harvey Normans for the past year with no issues :) $8 for 10x700mb is great :) |
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| 38915 | 2002-03-13 09:01:00 | The Melody Ones are Ok. | Guest (0) | ||
| 38916 | 2002-03-14 05:32:00 | transonic are good but gave one to a friend and it blew up writing off his cd rom drive, but cd's did come out of his drive very hot. If you can get them try the samsung ones from the warehouse very hard to get(well atleast where i live) but worth it | Guest (0) | ||
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