Customer Reviews
GOOD 
2003-12-02
Usually I need many cds to burn my files, but black cds usually are pretty expensive..
Finally I found cheap and high quality black cds..
At firt, I didn't feel sure about this cd because I had never heard about the brand khypermedia before.. ya~ that was ture...
but you know what.. it's just great!!! ^_^b
An Absolute Bargain with High Quality thrown in. 2003-10-25
These discs are flat-out-hands-down The Real Thing.
I bought a 50 disc spindle of these last year in a local store because the price was too good to pass up. They burned fine at top speed and down to 2x. Since, I recieved a 100 disc spindle for Christmas (I have a large 600+ CD collection to backup) and bought 2 more 50s and the only "coasters" I've made were my own durned fault. I bought a 30 and a 50 of Memorex and four of those refused to burn. I should have known better from my experiences with their tape products.
I've made audio, data and SVCDs. I even used a few to back up some old freeware that is no longer extant anywhere but private archives and freed up hard disc space in the bargain. That's high praise indeed! I've successfully overburned a couple to 82 minutes(equiv.) packing on audio books ripped to mp3 for trips.
Never have I had a problem with a CD-ROM or DVD or CD audio player reading these. Anecdote? I have a CD that my 12 year old Discman refuses to play anymore. I ripped it with Exact Audio Copy, burned it with Nero and that 12 year old Discman happily plays that new disc all the way through without a glitch. That saved me the cost of the spindle right there.
The busiest discs are still in fine condition through many, many trips in and out of the CD sleeve. (Maxells seem to have a surface made of gelatin, they scratch so easily.)
Complaints? Well... The K-Hypermedia logo takes up all of the top half of the disc so if you want to write comments, you'd better be brief or be willing to put in the time (and money) to make your own labels. That's it.
Conclusion: I use TDK mainly because they are easier to find, but I don't hesitate to buy these because they are no-name and neither should you.
Hard to trust a value brand, isn't it? 2003-10-13
In April 2003 (six months before this writing) I was dimly aware that I was running out of CD-Rs, and so when Amazon's front page confronted me with this cheap spindle of something called "KHypermedia" I actually paid attention instead of clicking on through. I'm usually wary of value brands of anything, especially those I've only seen online, but because these discs were on sale from an already very low price, and because I was ordering something anyway, I clicked them into my cart.
I've now burned dozens of music CDs, video CDs, and data storage CDs from this spindle, and they've all been fine and remain so. No skips, no coasters, no degradation over time --- in short, no difference from any other CD-Rs I've used. If this is the best per-disc price you've seen on this particular shopping trip, go for it.
