[mythtv-users] Working with DVD ISO images

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008 20:10:24 David Brodbeck wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > In my own experience the media is a major factor, although it is not
> > always the off-brand cheapies that don't work as well, I've had some that
> > said Sony that were total junk, and some with only Chinese on the label
> > that cost almost nothing work great.
>
> Probably 99% of all the CD-R media I've ever put in my drive came back
> with "CMC Magnetics" as the manufacturer code.  There's apparently one
> major company that makes the stuff and nearly everyone else just buys
> from them and badges it with their own brand.  I don't know if the
> situation with DVD+/-R is similar, though.

Interesting, CMC made replacement heads for Ampex 1" "C" format video tape 
machines. CD-Rs have nothing to do with "magnetics", so I wonder how they got 
into that business.


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