I bought two boxes of Philips CD-R disks a few weeks ago and just started using them for a project this week. The first two burned all right, then a couple just about burned (even at only 12x) with many retries and the drive speed hunting up and down all over the place. Out of 20 disks, barely half were usable. Then I looked more closely at the boxes and noticed the dreaded "Made in China" on them.

Thanks to yet another company sending production to China and letting quality control vanish, I had to make a quick trip to PC World (40-mile round trip) to get some replacements quickly. [Linked Image]

I went with TDK this time and have no problems. [Linked Image]