All Maxell CD-R discs comply with Orange Book Part II standards in their unrecorded form ... more
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All Maxell CD-R discs comply with Orange Book Part II standards in their unrecorded form ... more
and Yellow Book standards after recording. After recording, they may be read by any speed CD-ROM drive or audio CD player that conforms to Yellow Book standards.
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Advantages: Reliable Disadvantages: slightly more expensive than other brands
It would appear from the shelves that CD's are going the way of the good old Vinyl, into obscurity and beyond. With the DVD probably now the main media for saving files to with the exception of those knacky little USB drives CD's seem to be harder to come by these days. It's shame really they have served us so well over the years, and none more so than Verbatim.
I recently had cause to make a few audio CD's and therefore needed some media to put the music onto. I chose the 10 pack Verbatim CD-R700Mb, which came in at around £5 on Amazon, not bad that's only 50p a disc. I know you can get cheaper versions, but in the past I've ended up throwing more of those type away than I have actually been able to get anything onto.
As many of you will know the word Verbatim means word for word or exact, so the name itself ...
Advantages: cheap, reliable, work on a wide range of hifis Disadvantages: garish colour may put some people off
Geeks cdrs are cheap and cheerful, coming in spindle packs of fifty or a hundred, which are available in most independent computer shops and cost around £6 for 50 and £9 or so for a hundred. You can also buy them on ebay for only a few pounds more. Such a low price would indicate that they may be of less than high quality, but in my experience they are perfectly suitable both for use as data disks and audio cds.
Some audio cdrs are picky about which hifis they will play on, but I have had no such problems with geeks disks, which appear to play perfectly on a wide range of audio systems. Having burned 30 or 40 cds I have only had one failure occur during the burning process (leading to one wasted cdr), and even then it wasn't clear whether this failure was due to the disk itself or to a computer error.
Each disk holds 700mb ...
Advantages: Cheap, Comes wrapped and with cases, and er... nice colour discs Disadvantages: None really
't 'go over' the information to use again. If you want to use discs multiple times then you need CD-RW discs which allow this. However, with CD-RW's, lots of older CD players, and lots of new ones don't support the playback of them, so that's why I find CD-R's better for audio CD's.
Packaging?
As you can see from the picture, the box that they come in is a red swirl on the left with a blue section on the right. It has Maxell written in large at the top and CD-R 80 XL-S 700mb in the middle of the box. At the bottom right is the top left corner of one of the discs, with a little box next to it saying 48x. Also on the box is a white/silver and blue water effect ripple thingy ma bobby.
Cases?
The cases of the CD's have lots of small writing on the front, it doesn't look very attractive but I guess they thing people will print their own ...
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Manufacturer's product description
Maxell CD-R disks feature large capacity recording in digital data, text, video, graphics, photographs, etc. This write-once media makes it unalterable, ideal for archival and legal files. Ideal for small production runs of a CD-R to CD-ROM mastering.
