Silver, Blue and Green CD Media

As side from the multi-color CD packs and black CD blanks, most CD-R media
is the standard silver color. I've been told the blue or green blanks _may_
be more compatable with CD audio players than the standard silver. Is this
true?

The trouble is that unless you buy and open various brands you don't know if
they're blue or green. I did see an opened pack of Fuji CDs at a store today
that were blue.

Opinions?

W.E.

Walter Ego wrote:
As side from the multi-color CD packs and black CD blanks, most CD-R media
is the standard silver color. I've been told the blue or green blanks _may_
be more compatable with CD audio players than the standard silver. Is this
true?

The trouble is that unless you buy and open various brands you don't know if
they're blue or green. I did see an opened pack of Fuji CDs at a store today
that were blue.

Opinions?

Taiyo-Yuden, the inventor of the CD-R, has a patent on that blue cyanine
dye and charges a stiff price for it. Consequently, it's hard to find
from any other manufacturer. (Your Fuji were rebadged T-Y.) Drives that
like phthalocyanine (the straw-colored dye) are often less happy with
cyanine and vice versa. Note that the green appearance comes from seeing
a gold layer through a blue dye - there is no green dye.

With one exception, I've found no consistency in compatibility of
cyanine and phthalocyanine dyes with types of players. The exception is
the Hitachi drives favored in many laptops; those want cyanine on gold.

Mike
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http://www.mrichter.com/

The factory CD player in my '95 GM really doesn't like the newer, silver
CDRs - I've tried Verbatim SuperAZO and Imations. I get skipping, tracking
and focusing errors, based on the error codes that show up on the display.
(Store bought audio CD's do play fine.) However, my car player is perfectly
happy with the older, dark blue Verbatim DataLifePlus CDRs for music. I've
seen similar comments from others with the same "vintage" GM player as well.

Regards,
Bob.

"Walter Ego" wrote in message
...
As side from the multi-color CD packs and black CD blanks, most CD-R media
is the standard silver color. I've been told the blue or green blanks
_may_
be more compatable with CD audio players than the standard silver. Is this
true?

The trouble is that unless you buy and open various brands you don't know
if
they're blue or green. I did see an opened pack of Fuji CDs at a store
today
that were blue.

Opinions?

W.E.