Kingston H 700MB 16x 50-pk spindle CD-R $8.99 at OM B&M starting Sunday

[chibimike]

I agree with Hgabriel in that the old 8x ones SUCKED.
But these new ones are different discs entirely.

The old Hypermedia 8x cyanine discs would crap out after almost any exposure to light or heat.
Pthalo disks are much better at surviving.


mike

 

[Tifababy]

I used the KHypermedia 8x for lots of vcds/svcd/DC backups and all of them worked flawlessly, only like 2 coasters out of 50, and those were both my fault. I can't speak for the 12x yet, but I'm gonna go grab those tonight if my local OM still has them in stock.

 

[chibimike]

Yeah,

The 8x worked fine if you were keeping them in a fairly controlled environment.
But say you burned audio cd's and kept them in your car in Southern California, they died in a week.
Those 8x were the only discs that ever went bad that quickly just from sitting in a car, not even in direct sunlight.

mike

 

[jaybert]

my blank cd-rs

Thanks for the deal! BTW, these are all for personal use...making legit cds...

 

[coomarlin]

<< I went at 1 in the afternoon to my local Office Max and they were all sold out of the Kingstons. The Khypermedias were there for a little bit more but it just wasn't the same as getting CD's for 18 cents each >>



KHypermedia and Kingston are the same thing. If you look on the side of the spindle it says: Kingston Hypermedia Corp.

 

[Burticus]

I've gone through 200 of these easily back when Outpost had good deals on them. I'll rate them as ok but I have noticed something. The faster I set my burner to burn on them (teac 58s 8x) the longer it takes to recognize the disc. Sometimes it will take 20 or 30 seconds to recognize the cd, but then it takes off when it does. If I pop in a verbatim or even the 8x version of kingston it immediately recognizes it and goes. I've flashed to the lastest firmware without any change. Also - the faster I burn, the hard the cd-rom drive has to work to read them... installs take longer, video is choppier. (audio seems ok tho, but tends to skip a bit easier in my car) Again, if I slow the burn down it seems to help a lot. Lastly, if I used them for DC the unit takes longer to load stuff. Verbatims booted faster and loaded faster. Odd.


It's bizarre but I'll keep living with it until I run out.. I have one 50 pack left.

btw - These look exactly the same and give me the same dye results with cdrid as the imation 80 min's and the pny 80 mins. They all have the same quirk when burning, too.