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| At the moment there is a lot of talk about which is the best CD-R Media on the market today. Usually people are talking of a certain CD brand being the best but they should tell you which is the best factory manufacturing these CD-R's.
There are at the moment around 250 different CD-R brands on the market but there are ONLY about 16 manufacturers making all these CD-R's. So when buying CD-R's it's wise to check the factory where they are from, especially with the flood of NoName CD-R's which are usually of lesser quality as they have to be cheap.
Feurio! or CDR Identifier can be used to check which manufacturer made the CD-R. At the moment only a CD-Writer is able to retrieve this information, but not all of them. The Yamaha writers are able, the HP4020i is not. Check the CD-Writer Data Base list to see which CD-Readers are able (check for Vendorcode).
Keep in mind that some CD Brands tend to change from one factory to another once in a while usually without changing the CD Layout & covers. |
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| Here is an overview of all available CD factories: |
| CD Factory |
CD Manufacturer |
| CDA Dateträger Albrechts GmbH |
CDA & FNAC |
| CMC Magnetics Corporation |
BASF, CMC, Hi-Val, Imation, MMore, Onkyo & Samsung |
| Fornet International Pte Ltd. |
Fornet |
| Fuji Photo Film Co, Ltd. |
FujiFilm |
| Gigastorage Corporation |
Gigastorage & That's Write! |
| Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. |
KingTech & Maxell |
| InfoDisc Technology Co., Ltd. |
Buyonet & BestMedia |
| Kodak Japan Limited |
BASF & Kodak |
| Lead Data Inc. |
Lead Data & Targa & Lenco |
| Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation |
Verbatim & Traxdata, Sony |
| Mitsui Chemicals |
Mitsui, HP & Philips |
| MPO |
Hi-Space |
| Multi Media Masters & Machinary SA |
Polaroid & GameStation |
| Pioneer Video Corporation |
Pioneer & BASF |
| Princo Corporation |
BTC, KingTech, Megadata & Princo |
| Ricoh Company |
Ricoh & KAO |
| Ritek Co. |
Arita, BASF, Samsung, Memorex, Targa, Rimax, Traxdata, FujiFilm & Ricoh |
| Taiyo Yuden Company Limited |
Taiyo Yuden, 3M, Sony, Philips & Imation |
| TDK Corporation |
TDK, 3M, Pioneer & Yamaha |
| Xcitek Inc. |
BestMedia |
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| About 95% of the NoName CD-R's are made in CD factories from Arita, Princo, Lead Data, CMC & Gigastorage. Usually this can easily be recognized when the package says: Made in Taiwan
Check the CD-R Quality article to check the quality of these CD-Rs. |
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| My personal CD-R favorites are: |
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