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Next to impossible to get blank CDs these days?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Still using C60’s. Sorry OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,146 ✭✭✭misstearheus


    I think I understand just one post here out of all that replied!!

    It's like ye're all talking in a secret code. Or ye're high on something ye shouldn't be. Am lost as feic here! :o:o:D:confused::confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    Steviesol wrote: »
    They are a new thing in parts of Kerry.

    I came in here to say if OP can't get them, my business sells them...and yeah...guess where I am?!?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    lmimmfn wrote: »
    What year is this?

    2005


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    https://powercity.ie/ sell Verbatim and Sony, as far as I can tell.

    The brands like Sony, Verbatim, Maxell, JVC, bought batches in from manufacturers like Moser Baer (India) and Taiyo Yuden (Japan) and rebranded them with their own logos.

    Sadly, Taiyo Yuden's blank media dept. is no more, they were the Rolls Royce of blank CD\DVD media, acquired by JVC, then closed.

    The quality of brands like Moser Baer is umm.. questionable.

    The likes of the 'Kodak' branded media sold in pound shops, has nothing to do with Kodak Gold media, available from the mid 1990s, up to the mid 2000s.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    It wasn't that long ago you could get a 100 spindle Tesco own brand ones for about €15.

    I'm seen five packs in Dealz recently.

    If you can't find them and want to buy online you'd definitely get them on eBay. Or if you want to take a chance with cheaper ones Aliepress sells them. https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?site=glo&ltype=wholesale&d=y&blanktest=0&origin=y&jump=afs&SearchText=cd-r&tc=af&page=4&initiative_id=SB_20180922084703&isViewCP=y


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 madwidow


    They didn't even have them in argos in Dublin. Do have to buy them online?

    Got some few months ago in Argos Jervis
    Seen em lately in Dealz too


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    Got some in Dealz just there. Five for €1.50. Though I wouldn't expect the quality to be too good if it's dealz!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Pero_Bueno


    .red. wrote: »

    50 pack for €18.90 or a 25 pack for €7.90(both Verbatim CD-R) - why wouldn't you just buy two 25 packs ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    What are people using them for now?


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  • Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What are people using them for now?


    - Mix CDs.

    - Back-ups for valuable CDs or discs from box sets that I want to play in the car but don't want to bring out with me.

    - CDR copies of scratched CDs. Generally speaking a CD burner is more forgiving than a CD player so it's possible to "rescue" discs in this way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭FFred


    I have a 3.5 inch floppy if that helps at all.
    (Titter)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    FFred wrote: »
    I have a 3.5 inch floppy if that helps at all.
    (Titter)

    No, that's no good to anyone! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭monseiur


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    I've thousands in a shed from a time I worked in the software industry... I knew if I held onto them long enough :)
    Jaysus lad it would be safer under the mattress .......seeing that you don't trust the banks :D:P:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    What are people using them for now?

    The superior sound quality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    They didn't even have them in argos in Dublin. Do have to buy them online?

    What can blank cds do that a usb key or drop box / google drive or an mp3 player can't? Genuinely curious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    ToddyDoody wrote:
    What can blank cds do that a usb key or drop box / google drive or an mp3 player can't? Genuinely curious.


    Play in a CD Player


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Qrt


    Amalgam wrote: »
    https://powercity.ie/ sell Verbatim and Sony, as far as I can tell.

    The brands like Sony, Verbatim, Maxell, JVC, bought batches in from manufacturers like Moser Baer (India) and Taiyo Yuden (Japan) and rebranded them with their own logos.

    Sadly, Taiyo Yuden's blank media dept. is no more, they were the Rolls Royce of blank CD\DVD media, acquired by JVC, then closed.

    The quality of brands like Moser Baer is umm.. questionable.

    The likes of the 'Kodak' branded media sold in pound shops, has nothing to do with Kodak Gold media, available from the mid 1990s, up to the mid 2000s.

    Power City is great for that kind of stuff, they sell all the blank CDs, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, even those mini tapes for video cameras! (D8?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    monseiur wrote: »
    Jaysus lad it would be safer under the mattress .......seeing that you don't trust the banks :D:P:rolleyes:

    Re the emoji use...

    You went full retard, man. Never go full retard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭monseiur


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    Re the emoji use...

    You went full retard, man. Never go full retard

    I do........... because I can.... :rolleyes::o:mad::(:eek::cool::P:confused::pac::D;):p:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    ToddyDoody wrote:
    What can blank cds do that a usb key or drop box / google drive or an mp3 player can't? Genuinely curious.


    Play in a CD Player

    I guess. You could also run this forum as a fax machine based correspondence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    I think I understand just one post here out of all that replied!!

    It's like ye're all talking in a secret code. Or ye're high on something ye shouldn't be. Am lost as feic here! :o:o:D:confused::confused:

    It's only that way if you tear into it; you've got to upshank it and turn it around a few times first for it to get to the nozzle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Billy86 wrote: »
    It's only that way if you tear into it; you've got to upshank it and turn it around a few times first for it to get to the nozzle.

    The incremental flux capacitor running integrated rip nodes parallel to the helix sub routine is tad confusing to be fair.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    The Dealz ones (signalex) weren't very good at all. I'm going to return them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    The Dealz ones (signalex) weren't very good at all. I'm going to return them.

    Make sure you get your 1.50 back!!! :O


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Qrt


    I'm going to return them.

    Good luck finding a staff member in there.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Resverathrole


    Qrt wrote: »
    Good luck finding a staff member in there.
    I worked in Dealz before and have often allowed customers to return stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    I guess. You could also run this forum as a fax machine based correspondence.

    Some people still have CD players in their car you know

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Gal44


    Easons. Seen them in there yesterday


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Qrt


    I worked in Dealz before and have often allowed customers to return stuff.

    Never said you hadn't. The Square is almost entirely self service, same with Henry Street.


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