Quote Originally Posted by IQ
You are paying for the quality of the disk itself. Go and find some disks in your house, find a cheap as hell one, a half decent copy, and a pressed original. Now hold them up to the light. You will see that nothing shines thru the orginal, but a a bit does thru the half decent copy. As for the really cheap one, it should be virtually transparent.

If you understand how a copied cd works, then you will understand why this is important. Basically, a cheap disk will not hold its data as good as a more expensive one. If you get a tiny scratch on the top side of it, then its willl probably jump in some places, and after a while, the cd will deteriotate by itself. If you are ever doing an important back up onto cd's, dont ever use cheap ones.

As for the compatabilty problem. There shouldnt be one really. Unless the cheap cd's are really shite.
Ok cool, but problem is without looking at the discs how do I know one that's 12p is worse off to the ones that are 20p? they have the same write ups! so are they REALLY any better? I just don't know for sure!