I remember buying a 50 pack of at@t discs from Best Buy. They were on sale for 10 bucks. The first pack burned very well. I went to buy another and most of them were crap. I've got an 00 accord ex with the stock cd player and it couldn't read about 30% of the finalized discs. They turned out to be CMC discs, using liteon's smartburn.exe. I learned that there is more to cd-r's than just name brand loyalty.
Here's an article on how CD's are manufactured and rebranded.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/91
Then there's a forum discussion by CD nerds who do crazy benchmarks on error checking with countless CD's.
Don't start mudslinging!!! If I rate you favourite discs as garbage, so be it. But don't bitch about it....
I may have forgotten some manufacturers, but here we go:
http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread...threadid=42555
Note this is the manufacturers, not the disc brand.
TOP 10(the best first):
Kodak
Mitsui toatsu
Richo made by richo(not those made by ritek).
MPO
Fujifilm (their new phthalocyanine media is REALLY good)
Tayo yuden
Prodisc
Acer gold
ritek(and richo made by ritek), only phthalocyanine
Moser baer india/multimedia masters & machinery, only phthalocyanine type.
BOTTOM 10(the worst first):
Fornet international (only cyanine type)
CMC Magnetics
AMS Technology
Lead data
Xcitek
XEO Corporation
Multimedia masters & machinery (only cyanine type)
TDK
Ritek (only cyanine type)
Mitsubishi chemicals/verbatim
I may have forgotten some that should have been put in between some of these, but it at least gives a rough overview on what experiences I have.