Ive persoanlly never had a bad experience with CMC but I have heard lots people have... the reverse applies for me an Ritek tho hehe...
All of my CDR's are made by CMC (except the new ones) and I haven't had any problems. Why weren't they so hot before?
Well most of my CDRs are made by Ritek and i bought most of them 4 years back or so.... and i have a disamal time getting quality to work well. I have yet to buy newer Ritek discs so i dont know about them now but i hear plenty good things about them nowadays so thats what i said they are supposedly good now. Nowadays I use Mitsubishi/CMC media and I have an excellent time with them.
Oh I see, so how do you know that you're getting CMC disks. Like with TDK I didn't know they used different companies to make their disks. Is their one particular brand that just uses CMC disks?
CDRIdentifier allows you to read the ATIP on a blank cdr(w) (ATIP is essentially a code embedded into a CDR(W) that allows you to identify what company actually manufacturered the disc (as opposed to what company marketed it). For more info visit http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/cdridentifier.cfm or http://www.gum.de/cdrid/