🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:02:54 +1030, "Noel Pearson"
<noelpear@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>In reference to an earlier post regarding the quality of the latest Verbatim
>CD's I must agree that they are of extremely poor quality. They carry the
>brand name "Verbatim Datalife" (not Datalife Plus).
>I have never had trouble with previous Verbatim disks so I ran a little
>utility called CDR Media Code Identifier which displays the manufacturing
>company and the dyes used on the disk. Guess what! these new ones are made
>by CMC Magnetics Corp using completely different dyes to the Datalife Plus
>which are made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corp.
>I used 2 disks out of a box of 10 and decided not to use anymore so I cut my
>losses and bought a 10 pack of TDK dig-it
>disks...........................you know what is coming don't you? Yes, the
>TDK dig-it disks are identical to the Verbatim Datalife, same manufacturer,
>same dye etc. I now have 18 drink coasters.
>Too many cheap and nasty disks on the market because people won't pay a
>little more for quality.

I buy the Verbatim 94366 media from salesmart.
These have DataLifePlus on the side of the spindles of 50 and cd info
says they are made by Mitsubishi. 

CD burner I use is a liteon.