Cdr770

[John Harvey]

I recently bought a Philips CDR770 CD recorder but when I put in a CD the display text comes up OK but ..... it seems pretty touchy about what CDs I put in it. It keeps telling me that I either have the 'WRONG DISC' - 'USE AUDIO CD' or 'NO DISC'. I bought some Philips brand blank discs (the machine is Philips so it must like those, right?) but it insists on having 'Audio' CDs. What's the difference?
Surely a blank CD is a blank CD.

Does anybody out there have experience of this type of thing?


John Harvey

 

[dgatwood]

I recently bought a Philips CDR770 CD recorder but when I put in a CD the display text comes up OK but ..... it seems pretty touchy about what CDs I put in it. It keeps telling me that I either have the 'WRONG DISC' - 'USE AUDIO CD' or 'NO DISC'. I bought some Philips brand blank discs (the machine is Philips so it must like those, right?) but it insists on having 'Audio' CDs. What's the difference?
Surely a blank CD is a blank CD.

Does anybody out there have experience of this type of thing?

Thanks to the Audio Home Recording Act, you can legally make first generation copies of your CDs for all your friends. The price of that is $8 on the cost of the recorder and I forget how much on the cost of each disc. For that reason, it only takes "Audio" discs, on which the RIAA tax has been paid.

Other than the data stored in the code band on the inner ring of the disc, there is no difference between audio and data CDs.

 

[ez_willis]

Does anybody out there have experience of this type of thing?
John Harvey

Yes, I have a 770. The discs need to say 'Digital Audio Recordable' on them. Here is one example, 30 discs for $14.



...as for you-

Thanks to the Audio Home Recording Act, you can legally make first generation copies of your CDs for all your friends. The price of that is $8 on the cost of the recorder and I forget how much on the cost of each disc.

It's not a bad thing to be paid for the music you make. The act you speak of compensates artists who are being robbed of royalties by people that enjoy the fruits of your labor but aren't willing to pay for it. The discs are cheap, quit whining.