This reviewer is a member of the Best Buy Tech Insider Network Program. This invitation-only program provides BestBuy.com reviewers with manufacturer-supplied products for the purpose of writing honest, unbiased and usage-based reviews. Outside of receiving products to test and review, Best Buy Tech Insider Network Reviewers are not compensated in any other way.
When I got these, I did not care about the brand or what others say about it. CD-Rs are all the same and they all do the same function; hold information, such as music, to be listened to or viewed later on another system or player. These are no different. Put it in, open iTunes, WMP, or whatever you have, and burn a playlist to it. Some of them are duds(will not burn) because they were made incorrectly at the factory, but it always happens.
Anyway, I got the lightscribe ones because I am a disk label artest and I like to make my own CD art. 1: Sharpies look bland or ugly 2: Print-on labels waist ink and are a B**** to work with. These are perfect for me. Yes they do cost a little bit more than regular ones but thats because ofthe lightscribe feature. If you don't use this feature, your better off the plain ones. They work just as good.
What's great about it: Simple and streight forward
What's not so great: A bit pricier than regular CD-Rs