Moser Baer - They’re An Indian Company!
A few years ago, when the first Moser Baer blank CDs (writable CD media) came out we were quite impressed with the quality and we thought that Moser Baer was a German company.
It was only later on that we found out that it was an Indian company. Read the Wikipedia extract:
Moser Baer, is the world’s 2nd largest optical media manufacturer and supplies to the world’s top dozen brands. The company was founded in New Delhi in 1983 . 75% of its revenue come from exports. Although most of that is from OEM products. Their product range includes floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs.
Incorporated in 1983, Moser Baer has a presence in over 82 countries, serviced through six marketing offices in India, the US and Europe, and enjoys strong tie-ups with all major global technology brands.
Even today Moser Baer disks are the preferred brand if you want high quality but don’t feel like wasting money on over-priced Sony disks.
But we really can’t afford Moser Baer disks either so we buy stuff like Scorpio, Rainbow and Master DVDs. I don’t think anyone uses CDs anymore. If we had to, HP CDs are reasonably priced.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:16 am
That reminds me. Does anybody have a 5.25 inch floppy drive? I have around thirty of those floppies containing “invaluable” data.
Wiyoats.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:20 am
nice find !
good to know we are excelling hides all other generally depressing facts and stats about India’s IT/hardware market.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Yes… MoserBaer does rock and is fairly priced !
June 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Sundar, try the year 1980.
Sindhu, we are good in very few things so might as well be proud of those few.
Dai Arun M, it’s NOT fairly priced. It’s the most expensive of the disks I’d recommend (ignore Sony - no one buys it).
June 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Sundar, Ragha will buy those floppies. Why don’t you try him?
June 25th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
What the…?! Isn’t this common knowledge? There was quite a big thing when Moser Baer set up BluRay Disc manufacturing real early into the game. Was a huge article in the S&T section.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:16 am
George always claims he knows all news days before anyone else gets to know about it. Sometimes days before the event even occurs.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Haha, that’s because I’m clued in to digg, bbc, and because I get three newspapers every day. And if you don’t believe me you should search The Hindu or whatever, they do have an article on this, and I remember telling you that MB was Indian, and you went all ‘what the…? why do they have a name like that?’
June 26th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Notice that he does not deny that he claims to know things before they happened.
I know it’s old news. The reason I posted it was to let everyone else know.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I already have some 5.5″ floppies and wud try to acquire more for free.., Ha ha ha
June 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
10 Rs a cd, and 20 Rs a DVD is perfectly alright for that kind of quality. My MoserBaer CDs have stood rock solid for the past 5 years.
Samsung/Sony/Rainbow all died within 2 years.. Samsung, especially sucks
June 27th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
other companies’ CDs are way too too cheap to be even working CDs..
ever ran a Verify check on those CDs ? Nero says “Write successful”..
Run a verify. I personally assure you 100% there will be bad sectors/sectors that dont match content on HDD.
MB cds *NEVER* cause a problem.
Ive written close to 2000 CDs and 200 DVDs (over 5 years). Moser Baer is the only one that works perfectly with verification.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
What do you mean the disk died? I doubt it. If you preserved it scratch free even out in the open it would work just fine.
I never run verify simply because I’ve never felt the need for it. Just takes more time. And in the rare instance some file doesn’t work I’ll burn it again. Why waste so much time verifying a disc especially when you can do nothing about it if it does have errors?
Please don’t shorten Moser Baer to MB.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Nothing wrong with old news. Just saying I find things as they happen for obvious reasons. Sort of like how Sindhu has this uncanny knack of finding every Web 2.0 application out there.
This comment thread is starting to sound like a Moser Baer sponsored ‘independent review’. In any case, I’ll add my word in. They do awesome stuff. Also, disk rot happens but not on such a scale surely, Arun? Samsung does suck, that’s true atleast.
Verifying a disc is useful if it has lots of files and you need to be sure they’re working. You can’t check every file and having trouble later isn’t fun.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
The first three sentences of yours have no connection to each other.
How can the comments sound like supporting Moser Baer when the author (me) is arguing that it’s too costly?
Verifying takes time. The probability of files being corrupt is very small and thus acceptable.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Haha, yes they do. It takes a brilliant mind to see the connection.
My mistake, I should’ve said, it looks like Moser Baer paid your commenters to post what they did. So positive.
Fall of a perfectionist.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Ah, yes. SponsoredComments.com?
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Well, I came to know that this is an Indian Company just a few months ago. It was there in the 5th page of the Hindu Newspaper in which it had quoted that MoserBaer had got the rights to release the Tamil film “Mozhi” in CDs and DVDs…
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Ah but when will they release the movie? After 3 years as suggested by the idiot producers?