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These 'Muji' CD-Rs are quite widely available in Thailand right now, are fairly cheap, and feel like rather good disks compared with most of the rubbish that's available. However, I've had only limited experience with them: good experience when using Nero and WinOnCD on two friends's machines, but a few bad experiences on my machine that may be due to the burner (Ricoh MP9120A) and/or the horrible software, Roxio ECDC 5.3.1.154 SP4 (amazing how buggy it is, how in your face the bugs are, and how each update seems to add new bugs).
Here's the ATIP:
ATIP: 97m 27s 06f
Disc Manufacturer: Digital Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
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)
My question is, does anyone know anything about 'Digital Storage Technology'? What kind of reputation do their disks have? (And where are they manufactured (Taiwan, I'd guess)?)
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Here in Thailand, Mitsui and TY disks aren't available. The last 'quality' disks I've found are Kodak Ultima 80 "Contains Gold" (so, not '100% Gold', not 'Silver and Gold', just 'Contains'(!) Gold). The packaging claims that they're manufactured in Ireland and packed in China.
ATIP is:
ATIP: 97m 27s 46f
Disc Manufacturer: Kodak Japan Ltd.
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)
Does anyone have any experience with these disks? I ask because they're rather expensive, so I don't know whether to get a large number while they're still around.
I have another question someone may be able to answer. I'm told by friends who sell computer peripherals that there are fake CD-Rs about, specifically fake Kodaks here in Thailand. What I wonder is whether, if the ATIP identifies the manufacturer as 'Kodak Japan Ltd', this means that one can be confident that the disk is *not* a fake. (The manufacturers of fakes seem so clever that it seems at least possible that they could identify Kodak as the manufacturer, though I hope I'm wrong.)
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