CD-R deals this week

[huesmann]

Best Buy: 100-pk TDK @ $8 AR, 50-pk Imation @ $5 AR
Staples: 100-pk TDK @ $5 AR
Circuit City: 50-pk Audiobahn @ $3 AR

Don't ask what manufacturer, I can't tell you.

 

[allisolm]

Best Buy 100pk TDK CD-R80CB10 $37.99 less $12 IR less $15 MIR less $3 MIR =$7.99

Best Buy 50pk Imation 16092 $17.99 less $5 IR less less $8 MIR = $4.99

Staples 100-pk TDK 505847 $39.98 less $20 IR less $15 MIR =$4.94

Circuit City 50pk Audiobahn CDR50 $19.99 less $10 mfr MIR less $7 CC MIR = $2.99

 

[weepul]

hmmm, FAR cdrs have been rare for awhile.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[allisolm]

OfficeMax has Khypermedia 50pk FAR through 8/23. See this thread.

 

[Trader05]

Go to staples and pricematch bestbuy's price for a total of $3 AR for TDK's 100pk

 

[0roo0roo]

odd no one posted the officemax 100pack free ar khypermedia.

there were some left in a nonstandard location in the hamilton omax.

 

[jrichrds]

My OM flyer shows a FAR 50-pack Khypermedia, not 100.

 

[0roo0roo]

must be bay area only then. 29.99-9.99ir-12rebate-8 rebate

page 55 and page 5 of booklet.

 

[0roo0roo]

argh, the horror of trying to figure out which rebate gets the original upc

 

[0roo0roo]

well found the product link

 

[isekii]

are the TDK's Taiyo's ?

if they are i'm gonna pick some up. If they're not, then it aint worth it

 

[Coraanu]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
odd no one posted the officemax 100pack free ar khypermedia.

there were some left in a nonstandard location in the hamilton omax.

100pk is FAR in Roseville, MN as well. =]

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: isekii
are the TDK's Taiyo's ?

if they are i'm gonna pick some up. If they're not, then it aint worth it

i havent seen a TDK thats been a TY's in 3+ years.

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: kindest

Originally posted by: isekii
are the TDK's Taiyo's ?

if they are i'm gonna pick some up. If they're not, then it aint worth it

i havent seen a TDK thats been a TY's in 3+ years.

Actually it has only been a little over 2 years.....close to 2 1/2. What really scared me this week was when I went to BB to pick up another 100 pk of Fujis on sale......and they were not TYs!!!!!!!!!! I had to stop by a different BB yesterday to grab some TYs. If this becomes the norm then where the hell are we going to find TYs?

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: kindest

Originally posted by: isekii
are the TDK's Taiyo's ?

if they are i'm gonna pick some up. If they're not, then it aint worth it

i havent seen a TDK thats been a TY's in 3+ years.

Actually it has only been a little over 2 years.....close to 2 1/2. What really scared me this week was when I went to BB to pick up another 100 pk of Fujis on sale......and they were not TYs!!!!!!!!!! I had to stop by a different BB yesterday to grab some TYs. If this becomes the norm then where the hell are we going to find TYs?

I dunno, i'll pick up some more Fuji's once they're on sale.
I still have 2.5 spindles left roughly 175 CDR's

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
odd no one posted the officemax 100pack free ar khypermedia.

No OMax in my area so I don't get their ads; that's why I didn't include them.

 

[shuan24]

I heard OMax is pretty lame with their MIRs.

 

[Trader05]

Actually it has only been a little over 2 years.....close to 2 1/2. What really scared me this week was when I went to BB to pick up another 100 pk of Fujis on sale......and they were not TYs!!!!!!!!!! I had to stop by a different BB yesterday to grab some TYs. If this becomes the norm then where the hell are we going to find TYs?

What is Fuji using other than TY's? Better not be CMC! I'm going to pick up the spindle of TDK's at Staples, i'm gonna let you guys know what i get.


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The TDK's are Ritek(type7)

 

[huesmann]

The "Audiobahn" discs are shown to be manufactured by "Prodisc."

I think CC is blowing these out because they are mislabeled as 800MB discs when they are in reality 700MB discs (there is a label on the plastic covering to that effect).

 

[L337Llama]

Has anybody used the Audiobahns? The names sounds cool.

 

[jrichrds]

TDK has been using CMC for the past couple years, and now Ritek is starting to show up.
The newer Taiyo Yuden 100-packs (not the 2x50 packs) are Ritek.
Imation has used CMC exclusively for quite a while. The last Made in Japan and Made in USA discs I got from Imation were many years back.

CMC is crap. Ritek is excellent. TY is one of the best. This is based off of my own C1/C2 error testing, and appears to be the general concensus in CD-R forums.

 

[huesmann]

The unfortunate thing about the Audiobahns is that they have a stupid silkscreened label across the top 1/3 of the disc.

 

[Trader05]

CMC is crap. Ritek is excellent. TY is one of the best. This is based off of my own C1/C2 error testing, and appears to be the general concensus in CD-R forums

For some reason with Riteks when burned over 16x with my Plex 48x, my Apex dvd player doesn't like them, but audio burned at 48x it reads fine!

 

[Askalon]

How can I tell what manufacturer they are? i want to go to CrapUSA or BB to get some to use with my new burner.

 

[Siniminister]

Originally posted by: Trader05

CMC is crap. Ritek is excellent. TY is one of the best. This is based off of my own C1/C2 error testing, and appears to be the general concensus in CD-R forums

For some reason with Riteks when burned over 16x with my Plex 48x, my Apex dvd player doesn't like them, but audio burned at 48x it reads fine!

I've never had good results with Riteks, and I also use Plextor drives. In fact, CMC have by far been more reliable in reading data that has already been recorded. Whenever someone gives me a Ritek CDR, I need to reduce the read speed to no greater than 8x.