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Random Junk said:

quoted 1 line a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current

> a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current

...and...

quoted 1 line Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD.

> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD.

Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw, the cheapest real brand name drives were $599 and the cheapest brand name disks were about $5. I don't mean stuff like Kmart cdroms or That's Cd-Rom. I mean TDK or Sony or Maxell or Phillips stuff. Where are you getting these prices? I've got mad WaReZ I want to share and I'd like to get a drive, but I was waiting for either my company's security to go lax or until the prices dropped. -CF

At 10:22 PM 8/26/97 -0400, Christopher Fahey wrote:

quoted 7 lines Random Junk said:

>Random Junk said: >> a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current >> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD. >Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw, the >cheapest real brand name drives were $599 and the cheapest brand name >disks were about $5. I don't mean stuff like Kmart cdroms or That's >Cd-Rom. I mean TDK or Sony or Maxell or Phillips stuff.

I buy 10 blank TDK CDR's for $30 at Costco locally. You can get cheaper prices if you buy larger quantities from mail order places and the like. Good CD Burners are definately in the $300 range. You can get a Hewlett Packard 6x read 2x write burner for $340 or so. The small computer stores here sell them at that prce. 4x burners are available around here in the $500-600 range. A 70 min/650 MB Cd can be burned in 30 min with a 2x burner and in 15 min with a 4x. Check Computer Shopper magazine which has ads for places that sell in these price ranges. T.

quoted 2 lines Random Junk said:

> Random Junk said: > > a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current

quoted 5 lines Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw, the

> Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw, the > cheapest real brand name drives were $599 and the cheapest brand name > disks were about $5. I don't mean stuff like Kmart cdroms or That's > Cd-Rom. I mean TDK or Sony or Maxell or Phillips stuff. Where are you > getting these prices? I've got mad WaReZ I want to share and I'd like to

Sharing mad warez is great... burn great homebewed tunes is too... $399 for Philips cd-r at Office Depot... most places will match/beat the price by a certain amount... try there... Chris brap@sonic.net HeathenNet Projects: http://www.sonic.net/~brap/ HeathenNet: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/9923/ The WhiteZone-L:http://www.sonic.net/~brap/whitezone.html C.Gosselin, PO Box 8264, Santa Rosa, CA 95407

kiya "yup yup yup" babzani wrote:

quoted 12 lines You wrote:

> You wrote: > > > >Random Junk said: > >> a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current > >...and... > >> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank > CD. > i too bought a complete cd-r "kit" for 299.95 (in US dollars!), and it > > came with the drive, the card to install the drive, and easy cd-pro, > which i've found to be damn easy to use no matter what it is you're > making copies of.

Are these PC packages? If similar prices are available for Mac CD-Rs,I am going to start shopping. steve

You wrote:

quoted 5 lines Random Junk said:

> >Random Junk said: >> a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current >...and... >> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank

CD.

quoted 3 lines Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw,

> > >Um, where in god's name have you seen these prices? The last I saw,

the

quoted 4 lines cheapest real brand name drives were $599 and the cheapest brand name

>cheapest real brand name drives were $599 and the cheapest brand name >disks were about $5. I don't mean stuff like Kmart cdroms or That's >Cd-Rom. I mean TDK or Sony or Maxell or Phillips stuff. Where are you >getting these prices? I've got mad WaReZ I want to share and I'd like

to

quoted 1 line get a drive, but I was waiting for either my company's security to go

>get a drive, but I was waiting for either my company's security to go

lax

quoted 5 lines or until the prices dropped.

>or until the prices dropped. > >-CF > >

i too bought a complete cd-r "kit" for 299.95 (in US dollars!), and it came with the drive, the card to install the drive, and easy cd-pro, which i've found to be damn easy to use no matter what it is you're making copies of. AND i agree with john, in saying that i would never pay more than 2.75 on a blank cd-r. and im not giving into the bullshit of buying only sony or tdk or some other brand name because they supposedly skip less or you a less chance of having some sort of error while recording onto the disc, because i've burned maybe about almost 300 discs so far with my burner and have had only three errors where i had to throw away the blank cd-r and start the session over again, AND the three times it happened it was with brand name cd-rs, two times with maxell and once with sony. my guess is it has nothing to do with the brand. and about the price of cd-rs, there was a sale at fry's electronics, which are scattered around northern california, for blank philips cd-rs for 1.95 each with no minimum order, the sale was last week so i did not hesitate to go over and buy 180.00 dollars worth of discs, that's 90 damn discs! if you were paying 5.00 dollars a disc you would only get 38 discs for that price. and im tax exempt so things are a bit cheaper, but besides that i would never pay $5.00 for a blank cd-r. even the wholesale price is more than 1.95, the cheapest wholesale price in the US for 50 to 100 discs was either 2.39 or 2.49, but you have be a retailer to buy them, so most people would have a problem buying them anyway. -kiya np:lexis 12" (cert 18 1822) autechre rmx (which turns out to be the same "drum n bass" type track they did on their radio show)

quoted 4 lines i too bought a complete cd-r "kit" for 299.95 (in US dollars!), and it

> i too bought a complete cd-r "kit" for 299.95 (in US dollars!), and it > came with the drive, the card to install the drive, and easy cd-pro, > which i've found to be damn easy to use no matter what it is you're > making copies of.

Please do tell where you got it from! I've been looking for a reasonable one for some time, but seems that everytime I go to get it, something comes up... $299 is quite a deal if it works (which it seems to) so I'd be into checking it out... be well worth selling off some good 12"s for or something! Chris brap@sonic.net HeathenNet Projects: http://www.sonic.net/~brap/ HeathenNet: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/9923/ The WhiteZone-L:http://www.sonic.net/~brap/whitezone.html C.Gosselin, PO Box 8264, Santa Rosa, CA 95407

At 10:22 PM 8/26/97 -0400, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines Random Junk said:

>Random Junk said: >> a good CD-r burner can be had for around $300. ALL of the current

Well the KEY THING in buying a CD burner if your doing music is to make sure it is a DISC AT ONCE system, not a track at once. The difference between the two is amazing. The disc at once systems allow you do drop tracks without the silence commonly found between tracks. It also allows index codes and so forth. Whats more you can take one of the audio tracks you've done and send it right to the pressing plant and have them make CDs from it. With a track at once cd rom burner there must be 2 seconds pause between songs, everthing is chained together with pointers, and CD pressing plants won't take your golds. They're great for multisession cds for data, and if you don't mind the 2 second breaks.

quoted 1 line Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD.

>> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD.

Oh yeah... those blue verbatim discs which are worthless. Quality is crap, bought a pack of 10 and NONE of them worked. All my TDK's or Sony's worked fine!

Casa de Toad writes:

quoted 2 lines Well the KEY THING in buying a CD burner if your doing music is to make

> Well the KEY THING in buying a CD burner if your doing music is to make > sure it is a DISC AT ONCE system, not a track at once.

this is true. most of them these days do both, but at least one of the smart & friendly models in production doesn't do DAO.

quoted 2 lines With a track at once cd rom burner there must be 2 seconds pause between

> With a track at once cd rom burner there must be 2 seconds pause between > songs,

not anymore... the new players can do "adjustable track gap" in TAO, but if you have a DAO drive, there's really no reason to do it the other way.

quoted 3 lines Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD.

> >> Blanks are under $3. I would not pay more than $2.75 for a blank CD. > > Oh yeah... those blue verbatim discs which are worthless.

bzzzt. wrong, thanks for playing. i can get kao, kodak and plasmon/philips for $3 or less. the plasmons were green. kodaks are gold. i can't remember what the kaos look like. -- Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com SpotMedia Communications ...I was an infinitely hot and dense dot...

quoted 5 lines Oh yeah... those blue verbatim discs which are worthless. Quality is

> Oh yeah... those blue verbatim discs which are worthless. Quality is > crap, > bought a pack of 10 and NONE of them worked. All my TDK's or Sony's > worked > fine!

Ive just spent the weekend pressing CDz with Hardy from Spymania on his new Phillips 2600, we burnt 15 verbatim disks which all work perfectly on every CD player we tried (including an 11 year old one..)... from what i can tell its more to do with the quality of your hardware/firmware than the disks... although obviously there are some shit ones out there... Got myself an nice copy of Mbuki Mvuki and Scoobs remixes on a CD ; ) heh heh i like to tease....... ... and b4 anyone asks... no. Steve /k/./F/

i saw some cheap prices in J&R Computer World catalog for CDRs: Maxell : $19.99/10-pack.. $9.99/5-pack, etc.. $2 ea. Memorex: $4.99/5-pack... $1 ea. both of these are after manufacturer mail-in rebates... .... grav