CDRs made in India, or, does the origin really matter?

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I've always held it as common knowledge that CDRs manufactured in Japan were the highest quality. I usually avoid CDs from other places, esepcially Taiwan. I recently bought a 10 pack of Sonys that were made in India - I've never seen this before (or never noticed) - anyone have any experience, one way or another, with these? Does the country of origin really make a difference? And can someone remind me about the 'color guide' thing again (ie green = bad, blue = good, red = best, dark = bad, light = good, wtf?!?!?! i can't keep it straight)?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

best for data archiving is gold reflective layer, phthalocyanine dye. silver reflective layer/phthalocyanine dye is a bit better for audio CDs because the higher reflectivity of silver vs. gold helps the disc play in old cd players and car stereos, etc.

don't know what kind of reputation india has for CDR quality. but yes, origin matters. different manufacturing standards and quality control.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't answer your question rog, but i buy Sony's when I can and rarely have problems.

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― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

since we mentioned colour....what about the black [absence of colour] cdrs?any good for music?

― william (william), Sunday, 25 July 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i've used black for music before and it seems okay tho i'm no expert on sound quality

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, i've been using silver memorex to backup important shit for the last two years. So i just looked and they're made in TAIWAN! Damn!

to tell the truth, i've never had a problem, though.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

mtv choose or lose did a segment on indian call centers, they did a nice job of making them out to be bogeymen but they didn't happen to mention the US has a net gain from "out-sourcing". it was a pretty sinister piece actually. I had two indian kids in my recent climbing class, they were great and one of the kids learned all of my knots in five minutes.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually avoid CDs from other places, esepcially Taiwan.

probably most of the chips in your computer were manufactured in Taiwan.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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