With Nearly 1 Billion Sold, Recordable CDs Become Mainstream

[bonkers325]

Leading market researcher NPD INTELECT reported that, over the past 15 months, sales of blank recordable CDs through U.S. retailers, mail-order firms and resellers reached nearly 1 billion blank disks...

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[BD2003]

And they still havent figured out a way to make them as versatile as floppies....

 

[Keego]

And companies still cant figure out why their profits are not as high as they should be..

 

[DaejangNim]

they should have a cd lottery and give 1 out of every 6 people in the world a cdr ^^

 

[Looney]

<< And they still havent figured out a way to make them as versatile as floppies.... >>



Huh? what can floppies do that CDRs can't? And if anything, CDRs are more versatile... you can make audio and video CDs out of them, there are now camcorders that take CDRs instead of tapes, and they just hold a lot more stuff on them than floppies. I remember back during the floppy days, it was normal for games to come on 10+ floppies (windows 95 came on 48 disks if i remember correctly)... the biggest i've seen nowadays is 4 CDs.

 

[Soccerman]

the biggest i've seen nowadays is 4 CDs.

4 CDs? AHHH get a DVDROM!

lol.. Actually Baldures gate is 5 CDs (without the expansion). you CAN buy it on DVD though..

 

[Rectalfier]

I think Pirates have started burning more. I don't think recordable CD's have actually gone mainstream.

 

[Pakman]

<< (windows 95 came on 48 disks if i remember correctly)... >>

48 disks? The retail version of Windows 95 came in 13 disks. I dunno about OEM.. but some of the OEM manufacturers supply you with the Windows floppy stickers and make you create your own floppies. So to them I guess it really didn't matter how many floppies they wanted you to use.

 

[bjc112]

pakman in rihgt, it came on 13 YEllow floppies.. and one night.. i installed that O/S times.. never again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pakman]

plus they were hard as hell to copy. It uses a 1.7MB format. There's software out there that will let you &quot;overburn&quot; your floppies. hehe... those were some fun times.

 

[BlackWob]

I like CD-Rs, but I don't like burning coasters.

An advantage of CD-Rs over floppies is that you can set them down on top of a pizza hut magnet and it won't be erased [did this once not paying attention and lost the game 'Lemmings' which I had just bought].

CD-Rs aren't really *mainstream* IMHO. I have noticed a big change in the # of people askin me to burn them cds compared from Fall 1998 when I first bought my Acer 2x2x8 and now when for 1/2 the price you can get a 16X CD-RW online. Instead of 20 people a day asking me to burn them the newest CD, I only get like 2 people a day, and I swiftly tell them no because I'm too fscking busy.

 

[mchammer187]

I dont think CD's are mainstream. I just think the ppl that have burners just burn more. I personally have a few hundred cd's burned and 500 ready to be burned, same with my bro. And a friend of mine from college has 500 Divx movies on CD's. God bless the T-3 🙂

 

[goshdarnindie]

I want 500 Divx movies, it will sure save me a lot of time from compressing my own :disgust:

 

[BD2003]

Maybe versatile was the wrong word. More like foolproof. Its still not as easy as dragging and dropping. Theres that packet3d stuff, but it wont work on other pcs without closing the discs, and I shouldnt have to install other programs. We shouldnt need another program to burn a disc, everything should be invisible, just like a floppy. I heard theyre working on a spec, but we'll need new drives. Mount something.