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Check out www.digitalpromo.co.uk

48x speed 80 minute CD-Rs - 100 for £13.99
Even after adding £5.86 for next-day courier delivery, it still
works out at less than 20p per disc.

― chris sallis, Wednesday, 28 August 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At a place in parts of the USA called Fry's electronics (think Geek-nyland), discs work out to something like 15 cents US (and most likely even less since I haven't checked for a few weeks).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought 100 Imation disks for $7 US, assuming I get my $20 rebate. No cases, just a big spindle. I don't even have a burner yet, but I couldn't pass this up.

― nickn, Wednesday, 28 August 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be interested in knowing how many of these disks go south either during the writing process or shortly afterwards. Are any of you using these for MP3 players, or just for general use?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 August 2002 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Memorex makes really reliable disks- I've usually gotten 50 CD spindles for about $14.00 + tax, which isn't really too bad for the quality.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 29 August 2002 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

my memorex's have been coastering too much, maybe i should switch back to TDK

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 29 August 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i've used everything from unbranded, cheap generics to maxell black to tdk - i've probably gone through 300 with only 2 failures so far (one was an mp3 cd that freaked out, one was an audio disc where the burning program seemed to misread a VBR mp3 i was burning). i know people who have ridiculous failure rates (1 out of 10, maybe) and i have to wonder if it's the media, the burner or the software.

as an aside, i burned some CDRs at my radio station once on Dysan brand green discs (my old cd player would only play green CDRs) and at some point all three of them became completely unreadable by anything. i still have no idea why.

― your null fame, Thursday, 29 August 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The guy on the home page is me having v. recently bought 100 for £30 from Maplins thinking I was getting a bargin (everywhere else in town only does the 10 packs w/ cases). Did you see the cream printed disc for £11.99, ones that had been messed up during commercial printing and so blanked out for resale?

Judging by the other responses it seems we're still paying higher prices for CDs in the UK ...even blank ones.

― petfug (petfug), Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

blank CDs are loss-leaders for large consumer electronics stores in the USA. In fact, if you pay attention to the newspaper ads and actually send away for the rebates, you can get them for free (see BestBuy this week).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 August 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

to the guy with the dysan green backed cd problem...that is normal...cdr's have a shelf life after being burned, especially the extremely generic cds....as for memorexes i have had nothing but problems with those..especially when burning at high speeds...total trash..tdks seem to be the best out there

― ernest (captainbadass), Thursday, 29 August 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Ebay. You can usually get 100 80 minute TDK or Imation for 25.00 or less plus shipping. But, if you see me bidding on them...BACK OFF!

― Carey, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough, the only totally flawless brand of CD-Rs I've tried (with my seemingly dodgy Samsung PC re-writer) has been a super-cheap *unbranded* 100-disc spindle (around 23p/disc) bought mail-order from First4Media.

Prior to that I would usually pay the extra for Maxell, Sony or TDK (though I'm fully aware that name-on-box frequently != actual manufacturer) - often for the handyness of the slim jewel-cases or whatever - and they'd still flop with PMA update failures now and again.

The cheap discs may well be lacking in the longevity department, I dunno. I'll report back in 2007.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been using TDK and Verbatim. How long will it be before I will have to burn new copies of everything?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I use Mitsui brand discs, and have for years. They're more expensive, but I have never, ever had a problem with them. (I also shelled out a lot of money for my Plextor SCSI burner a few years back; again, it was pricey, but to my recollection I've *never* burned a bad disc with the combination of Mitsui and Plextor, and have burned something like 250-300 discs with that pairing. I did burn a Sony green-dye disc that went bad, however.) A 50-count spindle of Mitsuis is something like $20-25, I think. I currently use Silvers -- used to use the Golds, but the Silvers seem just fine and are cheaper.

― Phil (phil), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone know anywhere relatively cheap in central london? i can't be at home to meet a courier in the near future, but i need to get 50 or so in the next few days...

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 6 September 2002 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Toby: try ProTape, which I think is on Percy Street, off Tottenham Court Road. TranscoMedia used to be cheaper (Dean Street), but they've shut up shop and gone mail-order only.

Might be stretching the definition of 'central' (though it makes it onto the large-scale bit of my A-Z), but KVJ Fairdeal on Whitechapel High Street (turn left out of Aldgate East tube) are probably cheaper than ProTape. Not open after lunchtime on Saturdays though.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 6 September 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Another vote for Mitsui. I've been using these for the last six years, and they've proved to be excellent (esp. in comparison with the crappy Arita/Ritek ones of which I had the misfortune of buying a 50-pack spindle - after two years half of them are unreadable). They're normally not very cheap though...

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 6 September 2002 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

If you don't care about long term archiving, the blank cdrs that are pennies a piece are fine, your getting what yopu pay for. Go with Imation or Maxell if you want long term quality (3-7 years max). Just treat them better then commercial CDs.

― Hayden (Hayden), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i bought a spindle of 25 princo budget cd-rs for a fairly cheap but not wholesale price.

the disturbing thing is that they say "princo budget cd-r" on them. like ... what exactly makes a cd-r a "budget" cd-r? is it slightly crappier and prone to fail? i used up the whole spindle this weekend and there were about three duds, but that is fairly consistent with normal rates, i think. now i have to suffer the stigma of giving someone a copy of my band's demo and having them laugh at the quality of the cd-r as well as the quality of the music that's on it.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

I finally threw out all my blank cds. I haven’t had a cd drive in years, not sure why it took me so long.

― Jeff, Sunday, 18 March 2018 13:20 (eight years ago)

i just bought an external dvd drive --- still make mixes for friends and family. Taiyo Yuden, all day long.

― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 18 March 2018 14:10 (eight years ago)

Finally threw out the CD-R ribbon label printer I used to print the logos on the discs of the '1981' box set. And the last CD-Rs I had. I'll buy CDs till they stop making them (and then I'll stop buying music). But even I have to admit the era of physical mix-making is probably dead...

― Soundslike, Sunday, 18 March 2018 14:50 (eight years ago)

I proceed apace.

― clemenza, Sunday, 18 March 2018 14:54 (eight years ago)

still burning occasional CDs for the truck CD player, usually stuff ripped from vinyl

― sleeve, Sunday, 18 March 2018 14:56 (eight years ago)

I had the 1981 box set! Sadly, I think I threw out all the physical discs. But the spirit of 1981 still lives in Apple Music.

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― Jeff, Sunday, 18 March 2018 15:02 (eight years ago)

I still buy mp3 albums mostly from Amazon, so having a CD burner is still essential. But I haven't made a mix CD in probably a decade.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 18 March 2018 15:02 (eight years ago)

Still burn CDs, mostly of that year's favorite tracks.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 March 2018 15:19 (eight years ago)

I burn compilation CDs and make artwork because I am a nerd

― brimstead, Sunday, 18 March 2018 17:54 (eight years ago)

I've definitely vaguely fantasized about making physical CD-R copies of the 70+ Musicophilia mixes (with printed artwork) from the last decade. But I don't actually have a CD player anymore so it doesn't make much sense. Might just print all the covers one day as a poster. I loved making a physical artifact--building a wooden box for a 3-volume mixtape with photos I'd taken and hand-processed lacquered onto it; sewing canvas sleeves and hand-painting covers; spray paint stensiling individual CD-Rs... I'm happy to hear there are people carrying on the flame.

― Soundslike, Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:09 (eight years ago)

The other day I tried to guess how many blank CDs I made sharing music with friends and family, but I gave up in horror.

― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:29 (eight years ago)

*used

I didn't manufacture any.

― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:29 (eight years ago)

I'll buy CDs till they stop making them (and then I'll stop buying music)
― Soundslike, Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:50 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto and glad to hear I'm not the only one

― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:33 (eight years ago)

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