Hello Roy.

26 Jan 03 12:07, you wrote to me:

 RJT>> How fussy do I need to be with regard to worrying about what sort
 RJT>> of blanks I buy for this burner I just got?  Are there
 RJT>> differences?  I notice on the package of CD-R blanks I got that
 RJT>> it says "Multi Speed 40X",  while the burner is
rated 48X,  does
 RJT>> that matter?  Likewise, the CD-RWs I got say "1X-4X
Compatible"
 RJT>> on the package,  but the burner says it'll do those at 12X.  Do I
 RJT>> need to worry about slowing it down?  Or is this just a matter of
 RJT>> the burner's technology having gone way beyond what the people
 RJT>> doing the packaging have kept up with?

 RT>> Most of the "good" brands work well, and you will
find some of the
 RT>> cheap  brands might give you a few coasters here and there.

 RT> These are cheap ones.    The R's are
"K-hypermedia",   and the RWs
 RT> are Imation.

K-Hypermedia, I have not come across, but have a few Imation's here that are 
fine.

 RT>> I recon if a CD-RW says  use at 4-speed, then do so, but as they
 RT>> are re-writeable, try at the 12X your writer says it can do,  and
 RT>> see what the results are. A lot of folks have long term
 RT>> reliability problems with read-write disks, but I have yet to run
 RT>> into this problem, but them my writer/software will not write
 RT>> faster than 4X on a 4X CD-RW.

 RT> I have yet to start with the software,  been sidetracked in terms of
 RT> playing with lame.

Enjoy!

 RT>> I also believe in burning audio CD's at 2X, it seems to reduce the
 RT> RT>> number of CD players that don't reliably read CD-R media very
 RT>> well, tho again you milage may vary.

 RT> Noted.  I'll probably have a go at it sometime today.

Hope all goes as expected. :-)

Russell

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