Wholesale prices for CD-recordable discs will spike this summer, a new report asserts, though the effects should be short-lived. The wholesale price of CD-R discs is expected to as much as triple this ...

My strategy for disposing of obsolete backup media could use some help. I have about 3GB of data in my home office that gets backed up weekly, including about 200 MB of sensitive data that I would ...

Q:I use the CD-R drive in my computer to make music CDs and also for storing photos. My question involves the different recordable discs that are available. Frequently the label on the disc indicates ...

Q: Is there a difference between blank CD-R discs advertised for data, and music? A: Basically there is no difference. The extra cost for the CD-Rs marketed for music rather than data comes from the ...

With Infiniti Lightscribe discs you can burn and 'scribe' your CD-R using the same device. A special coating is used on the upper surface of the discs that allows a Lightscribe enabled disc burner to ...

Sony has announced the reduction of 250 jobs at its optical disc manufacturing plant in Tagaze, Japan, as part of an initiative to completely phase out the production of recordable optical media. All ...

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters ...

Though 32x CD-RW burners have not entered into volume production yet, CD-R manufacturers are already rolling out 32x speed discs. Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers prefer to save their log ...

Even though CD-R discs are compatible with MacBook Pro and can be used to upload data such as music, the notebook will have a hard time reading and writing it if the disc is dirty and damaged, or if ...

To catch up with the fast development of high-speed CD-RW drives, Taiwan’s optical disc manufacturers are speeding their production schedules for 40x and 48x CD-R discs, with volume shipments to begin ...

I believe those are just standard Mitsu chemical discs, they make them all in Taiwan. If they're Datalife Plus discs, they're fine. Just dont burn them much above 24x ...