I would really recommend against getting a Philips CDR. I had one once a couple years, and it went bad, and I had to call tech support in Germany and even then they didn't fix it, I sent it in and never got any information about it and finally I just gave up trying to get it fixed. I've had a Memorex, Yamaha, and Plextor. The Memorex was pretty bad, it went out after a year, and the Yamaha, although reliable at first, started to be not so reliable after a while. I have had no problems with my plextor, though, and I've had it for many months now, I almost never burn a coaster. And TDK's are very good cds, cheap, too. I saw them at Price Club for $15 after MIR for 100-pack, although they were free at CompUSA for a while. I've heard that the ones from Taiwan are worse though, TDK's apparently using worse factories these days.