Sony 50CRM80RS CD-R Audio (50 pk Spindle)
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Customer Review: Close but no cigar.
Summary: 3 Stars
I just got my CDs in the mail today; they were manufactured in Taiwan [50CRM80RS], not in Japan [50CRM80LS2]. I plan to use these discs, but they will be the last not-made-in-Japan blank CDs that I will ever buy. Sony has clearly discontinued the Japanese-made CDs with the red packaging (as a lack of price on their website for it will indicate), as all I see in the stores now are the purple packaging that I got in the mail. I was expecting the red set with this order, and did not get it.
The facts are simple; compact discs made in China, Taiwan, Malaysia or any Asian country besides Japan are inferior to the Japanese made discs, which, without exception, are manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, the company responsible for inventing the CD-R. Granted, I've written in Sharpie on all of my discs, so they're probably all doomed anyway, but still.
I suspect that the RIAA is behind this decision, forcing those who manufacture CDs for America to only use non-Japanese manufacturers who make inferior product, but that's my own paranoia speaking.
BUY TAIYO YUDEN! These CDs made in other countries by other manufacturers will work, and they'll do what you need them to do, but I do not believe they're guaranteed the lifespan that Taiyo Yudens have.
Customer Review: You record on them fine but some systems will not read the CD's
Summary: 3 Stars
This CD-R's work good on a PC, I have a Vaio Sony so it shouldn't be a problem but if you try these on a standard CD player only a couple of tracks will work. When I use Maxell evertything's fine.
Customer Review: Run Away. Out of center spindle holes.
Summary: 1 Stars
The title says it all. Place one of these in a laptop tray, spin by hand, and see a spindle hole that is 1mm-2mm out of center. Burning at anything other than very slow speeds shakes the machine dangerously. Stick with Taiyo Yuden brand if you can (any "Made in Japan" discs as they are the only Japanese manufacturer left). I subsequently purchased Maxell CD-R (Photo) Pro Series With Spindle, 700MB/80 Minutes, Pack Of 25 and Memorex 97998 100 Pack Cool Color 52X CD-R Spindle, and both work very well (both made in China). Stick with "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com." to make returns easy.
I have written to the seller, and will post a follow up on how they handle the situation. Sold by J&R Music and Computer World dba NYC Electronics
Customer Review: 0 for 15, gave up, ugh
Summary: 1 Stars
After using a 50pack of Memorex successfully, I decided to give Sony a try based on the rave reviews. I went through the first 15 discs off the top of the Sony stack before giving up. Every disc aborted the burn process with a "Power Calibration Error". Never saw this error before with the Memorex discs I had used. I tried all the possible speeds (8x, 16x, 32x without any luck). It could be an incompatibility with my DVD drive (it is a Memorex drive, after all), but I can find anything about the issue Googling, at least nothing that will fix it.
Anyway, sounds like other folks have had better success so I would just avoid these if one is using a Memorex DVD 16X drive.
Customer Review: Do Not Buy This CD
Summary: 1 Stars
I've bought this blank audio cds from Costco. Try to burn them from my Itune music library, I've burnt 12 cds, only 2 of them works, the rest 10 went bad, and no longer usuable.
I've burnt 1000 cds in the past before with several brands, few went bad, but not this ratio of failure like this Sony cds.
One star is too much actually.
Save your money, and buy other brands.