quality of writeable optical media (was Re: SCSI CD drive capable of reading CD-R)

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> writes:

 Eric> Also, the fact that TDK has at times in the past shipped CMC
 Eric> Magnetics media under the TDK brand does tell me something very
 Eric> important about the TDK brand.  Even though TDK might not be
 Eric> shipping CMC Magnetics media today, there's no way in hell I'll
 Eric> ever buy writable optical media from TDK again.  Not because
 Eric> it's crap today; since I haven't tried it recently I don't
 Eric> know.  But instead, because it is proof positive that TDK does
 Eric> not perform adequate qualification of their suppliers. ...

Sounds like my "no Fuji" reasoning -- 100% failure rate over at least
two dozen audio cassettes tells me "they don't do QA" so they don't
get my business, for anything.

    paul