Customer Reviews

Sony 50CDQ80RS 80 Minute 700 MB 48x CD-R (50 Pack Spindle)

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(45)

 

 

I must admit. I ignored the previous review by Jon in Florida, and went ahead and bought these CD's thinking Sony is a quality company, so they can't ALL be bad. Well, I think I topped his 65% failure rate. The first 8 CD-R's I tried all had errors! I've gone thru hundreds of competing brand CD-R's with maybe 1 or 2 failures. This is ridiculous. I've used cheap CD-R's before, and you pay the price. I would classify these as cheap.

Granted this is an old review from 03, maybe Sony has improve on thier CD since then, but I have not use them since.
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Please do not buy, look for a different brand. You will lose data.

I am furious how many Sony's CDRs I have replaced. They are the absolute worst product out there. I don't know how such a great electronic company would leak such low quality, unreliable CD-R. The problem I have with Sony is overtime the CDs become unreadable. It said not MS-dos error or something when you try to copy the data, basically it become unreadable. The surface of Sony CDR is a smooth pearl. After 1-2 years they start to fake off on the edge like watermark. Not because of careless, but of the CDR surface quality. Other cheaper CDR I have for 3 years (storage in the same location as the Sony's CDR) are still readable and don't fake. I lost some important data with at least 4 Sony's CDR. The files at the outer edge are affected the most.

I though the smooth pearl color of Sony was very pleasing compare to other ugly blank CDR. TDK is now my CDR of choice now. It has a clean look and it CDRs are more readable on any cd-rom then Sony. I am in a progress of reburning all data that are on the Sony to TDK. Again, Warning: Do not buy Sony's CDR.

I'm only writing this review for a couple reasons... One is to balance the negative reviews and shed some light on CD-Rs, but first to clarify an issue that had me concerned.

I have used Sony CD-Rs for years with no issues. Pretty close to 100% success, so I was concerned when I saw these RED & BLACK packages when I was used to the YELLOW wrappers. I checked on the reviews on Amazon and read all the negative points, I thought maybe Sony had changed their CD-Rs. Well, I'm happy to say, they just changed their packaging. The CD-Rs inside appear exactly the same and perform just as well. So if your questioning if these are the same Sony CD-Rs you've been using all along, they are... I just burned music on 5 discs in a row without a single reject.

Now, I have a thought as to why there are so many negative reviews. When I bought a DVD recorder to add to my TV and VCR, I remember reading that they recommended certain DVD-R manufacturer's for recording. Not all manufacturer's worked for all DVD recorders. I've been using Sony CD-Rs for several years now in MY burner with darn near 100% success. The music I burned back in 2004 sounds as good as the discs I've burned yesterday. And yet, I tried a couple other CD-R manufacturers in the past with about a 60% success rate. I've tried Maxell, Staples, Maxwell and some others. None worked as well as Sony. Many of these manufacturers have been rated very high by the same reviewers that are hating on the Sonys. Could it be Maxell works better in THEIR brand of CD burner? I think so. My suggestion, stick with the name brands. When you try a name brand for the first time, buy in small quantity. Once you learn of a brand or two that works, STICK WITH them. I love to bargain hunt as much as the next guy, but I can't afford the $$ and time to mess with reject CD-Rs.

Now I only buy Sony, not because I'm a Sony homer, but just because they are the only brand that works consistently FOR ME, IN MY BURNER. It may not work as well for you, but they are worth a try.

I bought the exact same spindle at office depot, for only 5 dollars (I now know why they were so cheap). I have a 32x burner and tried to burn several at that speed (the cd's are supposed to be 48x compatible) none of them were readable. I had to burn at 4x for any of the cd's to work! I would suggest instead buying Memorex, I've found spindles of 50 cd's for $10 in some stores, and I've never had a single bad cd. I'm surprised by the quality of Sony's cds especially since I've read elsewhere that they are supposed high quality.

I go through a spindle every few weeks, so I've used just about every brand. I bought these Sony's for the first time a week ago, and I can say without a doubt I have never had more discs error during the burn process. Approximately 65% of my burns have failed with these. This is not at all what I've come to expect from this company.

Agree with what the other reviewers said. Simply SONY CD-Rs don't work. I have used different brands of CD-R media, never met so bad product like SONY. Last month I bought a spindle of SONY 48x CD-R because it is a SONY, I thought going with this brandname won't be wrong - besides, CD-R should already be a quite mature tech. Yet, I AM TOTALLY WRONG. Yesterday I want to copy a cd-rom on-hand, I used SONY CD-R disk and can not read the copy. I tried putting it into 3 of my dvd-rw/cd-rw drives yet none of them can read it. I tried two more SONY CD-R disks and still the result is the same.

Finally I returned the whole spindle of SONY CD-Rs.

I am just curious, HOW COME?! To me, the SONY CD-Rs have a failure rate of 100%. Such kind of product should not ever go out of the lab, how did it went all the way through to the consumer market and asking for any $$$?!

One word to any one who would like to try SONY CD-R - don't bother. Get any other brand, even 'no-name' would be far better than SONY.

SONY, you suck.

This is the second time I've been dumb enough to buy these- both times, I saw an uncluttered surface (no loud logos!) and the sony brand name, and assumed it'd be good quality. Only after my burning software failed again & again, and then my cd drive stopped recognizing any discs at all until rebooting, did I realize that I'd been through this before- with Sony discs, a year ago.

I can't imagine what could possibly make these so bad. I've used just about every other kind of discs with no problem. Reading the other reviews here makes me realize it's not just me. It's pretty upsetting that I've wasted $40 or so on these things, for a grand total of maybe 5-10 usable discs.

I usually buy Fuji CD-R media, which are made at the Taiyo Yuden factory and have never failed me.

I couldn't find Fuji media at my local $$$-mart, but I figured that Sony media had to be about as good.

Instead I learned yet again that if a brand has a contract with $$$-mart, it usually means that they are simply stamping their name on cheap junk.

These Sony disks use inferior and unstable phthalocyanine dyes. The quality control is terrible. Even at low recording speeds my Plextor and Lite-on drives often report recording errors (aka: coasters).

In contrast, Taiyo Yuden disks use AZO dyes, burn great, and never seem to go bad over time. (Naturally, you should protect any CD-R media from high temperatures/sunlight).


PS:
If you have Nero software, start up CD-DVD speed and select "Disk Info..." This will tell you the origin and dye type for your CD or DVD!

I have many products from Sony. TV, CD-RW drive, digital camera, just to name a few. Over the years I've never seen a bad Sony product.
Until now.
A few weeks ago I bought a spindle pack of blank CD-Rs from another retailer (other than Amazon). Like many people on this forum, I expected more from the Sony name, so I didn't think there would be a quality issue. It's like another reviewer said, you have to read reviews on EVERYTHING nowadays. Before I even tried burning any disks, I took notice to funny looking markings on the outer edges of these disks. They look like there are erratic bubbles and lines on the edges and if you look at the playing side you can actually trace the erratic "bubbles" and lines making a pattern onto the reflective surface of the disk. I didn't give this much thought at first. The burning process itself was successful on all, but don't let the fact that just because it burned well you won't have an issue. I use Norton Ghost for system backup on CD-R's. On the data intgrity test THREE sets failed! I thought it was errors on my HDD but now I'm not so sure. I ran tests on my HDD and no errors showed up. Tried a backup with TDK blanks (which have a nice and smooth outer edge). NO PROBLEM! Then I tried burning a music CD with the Sony disks. On two disks in a row of the same program there is tracking error so bad you can't hear the music in spots. Tried same program with TDK disks. Nice & quiet. Nothing but the music. I complained to the retailer and they gave me another pack of Sonys (I requested TDKs but they told me that they had to have me try another pack of what I originally bought first). OK, now I want them to take these pieces of junk back and give me the TDKs like I requested originally! I WILL NOT trust important data to these disks! Actually, I remember I bought a 100 pack of Maxells a few years back and if I remember correctly, I only had 1 failure out of the bunch. Go with TDK, Maxell or Memorex here. I don't know where Sony has their blank CDs made but they ought to take a hint from this forum. They have a quality control issue there.

Im not taking this crap, I am taking these back to the store tomorrow. I have burned 5 and only 3 of them even finished burning, the others had skips that were not hard to find. I cant believe how cheap these things are, you can see through them in some places(!) it looks like someone poked pin holes in em, in other places on the CD there are lumps. What the hell does Sony do, dump a little grit into the mix before they make a CD?

I bought some Imation brand CDs, they were cheaper and I only got one bad CD out of 50. I know this is not my CD-ROMs fault, it dosent like cheap crap and Im not going to use it. Any decent brand of CD youll not be able to see through them, the surface coat of the Imation CDs is thick and they are durable. These Sony CDs are a worthless product.