CMC Magnetics DVD+Rs are talked about as medium crap, but I can't say I've had any problem with them. You can usually guess what they are by the white solid foam hold-down rings, which you see on HP, Imation, Kypermiedia and other branded discs.
What's current thinking on this manufacturer for non-critical, non-archival use, and who are they supplying to now? Perhaps more important, are they consistently mediocre (but reliable) or variable?
At the following link, you will find the current CMC s@yt list:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?dvdmediasearch=&dvdmediadvd... And yes, aabbccdd is correct .. CMC Magnetics bad reputation is not opinion, rather it has been earned by the inferior discs sold to countless unsatisfied consumers ...
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You say you haven't had any problems with CMCs, but the dye rot could be going on right now. Just because a CMC burns and plays back once (very few even get that far) months or days or minutes later that very disc will get skips, pauses, pixillation, and even un-recognized media errors. By then, if you try to save that movie or data off the offending disc, it is too late. So it burned and played back, and you put that movie away. Next time you play it, it might start having problems, or it may play. It is all a gamble most ppl don't want or need to take. Think of your media as a foundation to your house. CMC is quicksand. You really want to build something on that? While we are sitting here discussing this, the dye that CMC is using, is rotting away on your disc, my disc, anyone who buys or bought that crap. It is not worth my time and effort to trust my movies or data to a crappy disc like CMC no matter how "cheaply" someone bought them. And this is my opinion mixed with fact. The fact is you can go look in the Nero section and find hundreds of posts where ppl failed to burn CMC discs, and were fine after changing media to something good. Science says CMC is crap, and real world situations prove it to be so. Good media can be had for the same price or less than cheap media, if you find them on sale. CMC is CRAP!!! And you cant even make fertilizer out of it.
