Taking a different tack from the Japanese, who were plating CD-Rs with a thin gold layer, Ritek instead developed a cheap and high-quality process for coating them with silver or aluminum. These allowed for a much lower price that in turn created more demand. It is yet another example of a Taiwanese company starting a global price war.
民國八十四年，錸德一反日本大廠用純金做 CD-R 表面薄膜材料的慣例，研發出低成本、高品質的鍍銀、鍍鋁薄膜，讓 CD-R 價格大幅降低，市場需求隨即直線上升，這也是資訊業中另一項「台灣廠商帶動全球價格大戰」的例子。