Originally Posted by
Txman2
Thanks for all replying. Perhaps I did not give enough info. My recorder is a Pioneer PDR-W839. These and other stand-alone recorders where quite popular between 1998 to 2002 approx. I'm not sure about the levy or tax which may have only been charged in North America (I live in Canada). As I said before, the CD-R discs are nothing special and are the same discs you use in your computer burners. Except these discs are marked "Audio" discs. They cost substantially more (the extra money goes to the music industry to compensate artists for the free burnings of their work) and have a code imbedded on them which these stand-alone recorders can read and allow you to record. The machines won't accept standard "data" discs which do not have this code although technically the discs are exactly the same as you use in your computers.
As I mentioned previously, these special discs have disappeared along with their recorders making all the machines out there obsolete - unless a way can be found to "trick" the machines to accept standard "data" discs. Big problem!