[ScottW]

On Jun 5, 4:00 am, John Atkinson
wrote:
On Jun 4, 10:00 pm, "ScottW" wrote:

I know when I burned these things 2 years ago they played on
the AMC. I'm really losing faith in CDRs and a bit in the AMC.

Has the AMC had heavy use in the intervening time?

I wouldn't consider it heavy.. but hard to quantify.
2 to 3 hundred hours would be my guess.

It's possible
that the read laser has lost enough power to making tracking
marginal with the lower-reflectivity CD-Rs. Realignment of the
mechanism might make it perform properly again.

It works fine on CDs and brand new CDRs.
Its not worth putting any money into.
I've a Pioneer universal I can swap out if using the PC as a player
becomes annoying. 90% of the time when I'm in the office I'm on
the computer anyway.

thanks for your comments,

ScottW