A 50-pack of 80-minute CD-R discs costs $20 at Best Buy (www.bestbuy.com); a 10-pack in jewel cases is $10 at Radio Shack (radioshack.com).

In this method, every sound made by the turntable, including pops and clicks, was recorded onto the blank CD-R disc.

CD-R discs are used most commonly for recording music because they can be played back on nearly any CD player.

About half the weight of the RipGO, it also uses mini CD-R discs, which are far less costly than chip-based storage media.

One CD-R disc can hold up to 60 minutes of standard quality SVCD-format video.

Beyond that, this Asus has managed to read all sorts of nasty, part-full CD-R discs with non-closed sessions without a single hiccup.

The technology is inherited from the ATIP code used on CD-R discs.

On a new CD-R disc, the entire surface of the disc is reflective - the laser can shine through the dye and reflect off the gold layer.

After you clean your drives and any source discs you are trying to copy, record another CD-R disc to see if you experience similar errors.

But a CD-R disc needs to allow the drive to write data onto the disc.