David Reed wrote:
>
> Jonas,
>
> Let me clarify my knowledge, or the lack thereof.
>
> I have had to wait many years, until just 6 weeks ago, to acquire my
> first DVD recorder. It is installed in my PC.
etc.
David,
I'm not quite sure if I upset you or not, I certainly didn't mean to. The
background to why I wrote my little piece was this:
I have been working with computers, hardware and software since 1980, and been
interested in audio since the '60s. Three years ago I lost my job when the
owner of the company I worked for by a combination of greed and stupidity
managed to make the company go bankrupt. For a while I had a job working in the
warehouse of a company that imports various recordable DVDs, CDs etc from Hong
Kong/China, and then I became interested in what it actually was I was lugging
around in heavy boxes. I knew from which company the containers full of DVDs
came, and poking around on the Internet I was intrigued to find out that the
DVDs we sold could contain info that said that they were made by e.g. "Multi
Media Machinary S.A." who are in Switzerland, when I knew they were made
somewhere in Hong Kong or China, possibly not even by the company who sold them
to us. This could only mean that the factory that made them bought either glas
masters or production lines or both from the Swiss company.
So then I learnt that there is no reliable way of finding out who made a
particular brand of CD or DVD (at least not the own-brand ones) and whether it
is good, OK or bad, except by getting hold of test results, or testing them
yourself. The company I worked for might provide test results, since they had
their products tested regularly, but they would certainly not tell you who made
them since they had them branded with their own brand. They also sold TDK discs
which I got the impression were good. TDK also have a new line of
"scratch-proof" discs which you cannot scratch even with steel wool (yes, it
has been tested). If I needed to be sure of getting something that was
reliable, based on what I learnt, I would by Kodak, TDK, Verbatim or possibly
Maxell or Sony.
Driving a dump truck doesn't sound bad at all... I have now got back to
the "bleeding edge", the money is certainly better now...
My 2 öre (approx $0.0028)
Jonas
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