CD Manufacturers

[Wayniac]

What amazed me when I first got into copyin...I mean, backing up(!) discs, is that despite the bewildering array of disc brands, only a handful of manufacturers actually make the darn things - around 17. Hence, You buy two different discs and later find out they're both manufactured in the same factory! There's often varius reasons for this, mostly financial.

Here's a good link for some info on who makes what - along the lines of the info from Fire Burner (greatly appreciated I might add):

####://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_factories.shtml

A cool program that can identify where your media came from and what it's made up of, is CD-R Identifier. However it may not work in some writers.

You put your blank in the recorder, run the program and hey presto some info's displayed about your blank (I think this info is referred to as the "ATIP" code that's placed in every blank ever produced).

Hope this helps. Bye :-)