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From:
Jeremy A.Smith
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Date:
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:51:45 -0000
Subject:
(idm) CDuctive
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quoted 1 line i had an pretty long post warning people about cductive a few months> i had an pretty long post warning people about cductive a few months
back.
quoted 1 line they have no idea what theyre doing...it took three trys and a month and> they have no idea what theyre doing...it took three trys and a month and
a
quoted 1 line half of time to get proper burns of the two cds i ordered (at $23> half of time to get proper burns of the two cds i ordered (at $23
apiece).
quoted 4 lines they gave me a 'free' cd to pay be back, but it was as fucked up as the> they gave me a 'free' cd to pay be back, but it was as fucked up as the > first two pairs they sent me (and was never replaced). > > someone responded to my post saying that some cds they had bought worked
in
quoted 1 line some players but not in others (or only in their cd rom drive or some> some players but not in others (or only in their cd rom drive or some
such
quoted 2 lines nonsense) but for the prices cductive are asking, they should play in any> nonsense) but for the prices cductive are asking, they should play in any > kind of player i put them in (for the record, the defective cds i
received
quoted 1 line did not play in 5 different cd players, or 2 different cd rom drives).> did not play in 5 different cd players, or 2 different cd rom drives).
Just my 2cv... They're probably burning the CDs at 4-speed, disk-at-once, and although disk-at-once is supposed to be red-book audio standard, they invariably f--k up. And if disk-at-once wasn't bad enough, 4-speed writing is even worse. If they burned the CDs at 2-speed, they'd probably save about a month per CD. :-) For the record, the CDs I've burned at 2-speed, with a normal close-session (2-second gap at the end of each track - not disk-at-once) have played on everything I've tried them on - a handheld CD-player, 2 CD-ROM drives, a 13-year old CD-player, and I've even lent a few CDs out, and no-one has had any trouble playing 'em. So CDuctive's main concept isn't flawed - successfully-burned CD-R's are one of the most reliable things I've used - but their execution is poor. Jeremy.