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[Anzan Hoshin Roshi <anzanhoshinroshi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 May 2010 08:38, Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2010/5/26 Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > As a point of curiosity: how common are errors in the media? I do
> remember a
> > time when we had to burn our CDs at low speeds or there was a high risk
> of
> > just making coasters; however, it's been many years since I've done
> anything
> > but burning at max speed, and even old CDs or DVDs from some drawer still
> > work after years and years. I've asked around (not because of this
> > discussion, it came up in another context) and anecdotally, this seems to
> be
> > true for "all" others.
>
> I've had multiple official shipit CDs cause issue for me. Rarely have
> I had issues with my own self-burned CDs. Then again I rarely burn my
> own because I tend to have shipit CDs kicking around, or I use a USB
> stick.
>
>
For what its worth: I've given out about a hundred shipit DVDs and many
hundreds of self-burne. Never had a report of a problem with the shipits but
about a ninth of the self-burned were bad.

Anzan