Mixed dyes make for poor quality (Tesco CD-R 700MB 52x)

Member Name: bertles86

Product:	Tesco CD-R 700MB 52x
Date:	03/08/09 (93 review reads)
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Advantages: Price I suppose

Disadvantages: No fixed dye = coasters

These days there are hundreds if not thousands of different brands of blank media on the market, and it's no surprise that the supermarket giant Tesco has branded some as there own.

Now the quality of blank media is solely dependent on the ink used in the dye on the underside (the colourful bit that reflects). It is clear after using some Tesco one's that no single ink is used but several different ones, so the quality obviously varies with them. Some burns work perfectly fine in stereos, cars and laptops. Others are coasters (failed burns) and hence useless.

All I can say is you have no guarantee of which batch of these discs you are buying and therefore have no clue as to what ink (and hence the quality of it) is being used so avoid them completely. Stick to the only name worth your time in blank media - Verbatim.

Summary: Useless

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