Maxell won't make 52X cd-r's

[UALOneKPlus]

I read in Maximum PC that Maxell has decided not to make the 52X cd-r's because "the small incremental increase in speed from 48x is not worth the risk of spinning a CD over 10,000 RPM's".

Sorry if this was discussed before. Is this a verdict against higher speeds than 48x?

[TheWizard]

Some drive manufacturers like Plextor will not be coming out with a 52X burner as well. So it's no surprise that Maxell will not be making 52X blank media.

[lppnet]

You can see some good impression on the 52x drives through few threats and Ian's nice review in this forum. My Liteon LTR-52246S can burn many 40x and 48x certified discs at 52x without any demaged or unreadable area . Even Imation 48x will do, although it had a high C1 average in CD Doctor scan. But remember not to use any cracked discs to write or read at 52x.

[Spazmogen]

CMC Magnetics & Verbatim is picking up the slack.


That's a 52x CMC disc pictured above, burned at 52x.
The disc came with my 52x Lite On drive.

I'm getting similar results with 48x Verbatims @ 52x.


Ian reported this week that Verbatim is making 52x discs, but they're not available yet.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030116/162048_1.html

So, when Maxell starts to loose market share, they'll start making 52x discs.

[cfitz]

There was a fair amount of discussion about this already. You might want to read through this thread:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7597

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