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Tdk Speed-x/reflex Ultra Cd-r

I went down to a local store today where I always buy TY media. But they were all out of them, and instead they had a whole pile of TDK's (Speed-X, Reflex Ultra and D-View)

Does anyone know what factory these come from? (if TDK, are they any good?..)
The D-View's that used to be TY are now Ritek's, which is ok, but it feels like TDK is more about "image and style" rather than quality these days...  hope I'm wrong though

Speed-X

Reflex Ultra

..d3so2

Tdk Speed-x/reflex Ultra Cd-r

Reply #1 –
The Speed-X 48x is surprisingly solid, considering the villainous performance of other 32x, 40x and 48x CD-Rs. This also contradicts Pio's assumption, that the high writing speeds themself might be the only problem, not the quality of the CD-R.

Average BLER is 22.35, maximum 125.5 errors/sec, still within spec. E22 errors were detected, but at least no E32 errors. So quality is still acceptable. One of the best >32x CD-Rs to date (sadly).

http://www.pcwelt.de/tests/hardware-tests/...rohlinge/25437/ (german)

Tdk Speed-x/reflex Ultra Cd-r

Reply #2 –
OK, Thanks.
Bought 50 Speed-X discs today. I'll probably just use them at 16x, so that shouldn't be a problem.
And hopefully they'll last longer than the 7 months some of my Fornet manufactured ones did. 

It almost seems that TDK, Fuji and Sony are the only "well-known" brands available here right now (Göteborg, Sweden).

..d3so2