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fallen_br

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11. April 2002 @ 16:56

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Those CD's are the absolute cheapest I've ever seen. Dr. Hank is a well-known brand in South America, and sell for about US$0.2/disc in large quantities, or, in some places, can reach even US$0.13/disc.
Hardcovered and sturdy looking.
This brand, some time ago, used Gigastorage media, now it has resorted to lower quality ones.

Dr. Hank 16x Shine Blue:
ATIP: 97m 27s 28f
Disc Manufacturer: Princo Co.
Reflective layer: Dye (Short strategy; e.g. Phthalocyanine)
Media type: CD-Recordable
Recording Speeds: min. unknown - max. unknown
nominal Capacity: 702.83MB (79m 59s 74f / LBA: 359849)

Notice the "Shine Blue" on the media name? Yes, it's Cyanine, a cyanine that looks darker than Ritek 1 and TY but lighter than AzoBlue or CMC 0.
Notice how the ATIP says Phthalocyanine?
This is just enough to generate a bad disc on most writers, and the "cheap cyanine" part should warrant no high-speed recording for it. Absolutely terrible.

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jase

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12. April 2002 @ 05:36

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You're mistaken there. Princo uses a patented cyanine-phthalocyanine hybrid dye which has a lot of the benefits of both dye types, but needs to be written to with a short strategy. Trust me when I say that Princo media can be written at obscenely fast speeds with no problems -- I have some old 8x Princos which burn just fine at 40x!!!

They also have the benefit of working very well in DVD players. We have a lot of them here in the UK, and they are by no means bad discs, in fact I'd say they're better than Gigastorage.

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fallen_br

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12. April 2002 @ 06:53

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Hmmm... Guess I should give it some tries then, I didn't know this, the blue color had me fooled.
No problems with durability?

Edit: How about sun resistance?

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