Re: [ARSCLIST] Taiyo-Yuden out of business??

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought 300 of the blue-dye unbranded discs during American Digital's last 
sale (about 6 months ago) and I don't think I've had one bad one out of the 
batch, which is now down to the last 80 or so. And they work fine in real time 
on my HHB burner.

dl

Tom Fine wrote:
> Seems to be plenty of T-Y here:
>
> http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/category.asp?c=93
>
> Their "Klone" brand blue-dye, made in Japan, has always worked well for 
> me (no coasters, ever). I've used the Klone cheapest-stuff green-dye for 
> years at work when we dupe hundreds of conference transcript CDR's and 
> the only coasters are bottoms and tops of piles (which I've learned to 
> just throw out in advance because they are often scuffed). We've never 
> had a  complaint or return on conference CDR's and now coming up on the 
> 10th conference we do transcripts this way.
>
> One man's experience, etc.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Sohn" <mahatma57@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 6:17 AM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Taiyo-Yuden out of business??
>
>
> > I just put in an order for CDRs for a project that I am working on for 
> > a radio station. The guy who does their ordering wrote back saying that:
> > "TaiyoYuden is no longer in business and those CD's are no longer
> > available".
> > Does anyone here know if that is true?
> > If so, does anyone have a suggestion for an alternate brand? (I am 
> > also using Mam-A, but need a cheaper alternative for access copies)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt Sohn