Blu-Ray 25GB Writable Discs - 5 Pack - $6.99 at Aldi
This was posted 1 year 1 month 19 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
So, I was at Aldi today, looking to buy one of the Women's Weekly cookbooks in an offer submitted last week.
Didn't find any, but as always seems to happen in these situations, found something else to buy.
It's a 5 pack of 25GB BD-R discs, for the (I think) very reasonable price of $6.99. Useful for people with Blu-ray recorders in their computers or for people with Blu-ray recorders. Not sure of the quality, but the cheapest 5 pack I could find on Static Ice was $14.xx.
+4 votesRead Aldi's T&C on National pricing policy!
The manager almost dragged me over to read it - does not apply to Aldi limited stock 'special buys(tm)', or manager specials like this. Prices scan differently at different stores outside the sale period.
Others have argued unsuccesfully that that policy should apply, after I posted a great deal I got, but other stores were still selling at full price.
Has worked in my favour (once) - bought a TV on special & returned within 60 days to a store selling at full price. Made $100 - but didn't even realise it until I looked at the receipts when throwing them out.
+3 voteswolfenator87 on 03/05/2012 - 20:57 ¶Absolutely not. The nature of OzB is all about impulse buying, especially things that you have no immediate use for. Then you just stockpile and hoard more stuff into your house, until eventually you need to buy a massive warehouse to store your lifetime accumulation of material possessions.
+2 votesbargainjargon on 01/05/2012 - 18:14 ¶I don't know if the discs themselves are good or not but I'd be willing to give it a go at that price if I had a bluray burner.
+3 votesdigitalaxon on 01/05/2012 - 18:50 ¶At 4X you're looking at around 25 minutes - with no verification after write, with verification the time increases to around double that (50min at 4X) ..
The disk is still burnt at 4X but as burns a block, the drive goes back, reads the block and if it's readable it burns the next block… If a block fails, it uses reserved space on the disk and burns to that (and remaps the bad block).. This is similiar to bad block management in hard drives and in the case of bluray happens at the hardware level so your application doesn't need to worry about it - also all bluray drives support this in hardware…
- +2 votesdigitalaxon on 01/05/2012 - 19:05 ¶
Well a bad disc is still a bad disc and I wouldn't trust 25Gb of data on it, but if a disc is a good brand with say a speck of dust or imperfection that's when I think you'll benefit from the error correction - also means you dont actually have to verify after burning like I do with DVD..
As for burner I recently last week purchased a LG burner (BH14NS40) for $109 on ebay that does BD-XL (upto 125gb) and 12X burning… also supports m-disc media which a little birdie tells me should become more obtainable in Australia come July.
+1 voteAre you certain about this?
I have never burnt BDs, but this is not how CD/DVD verification works. It also doesn't sound right either.
Typically, the entire disc is burnt, then the application will just read back the entire disc, comparing it against the files you burnt them from.
I'm not sure if this is because the burning operation cannot be 'paused' or interrupted, but reading back written blocks is very inefficient in terms of performance - the drive would have to write a block, wait for the disc to spin back, read the block, then wait again for the disc to spin back so it can write the next block.
+2 votesdeptraisteve on 01/05/2012 - 18:52 ¶i have never managed to find any of these deals at my local aldi. and if i do i will + this deal but at the moment its just a dream for me.
will continue to get my verbatims on ebay.
davedrastic on 01/05/2012 - 18:56 ¶Do most notebooks / PCs have blu ray burners nowadays? I thought that whole technology had been effectively skipped, or is it just becoming popular now?
- +2 voteswolfenator87 on 01/05/2012 - 19:33 ¶
Hell yes, with extra space to boot for special features and bonus content!
+1 voteLike bern1992, I was also looking for something else in my local ALDI (Wagga Wagga) today. And saw they had a few of these 5 packs reduced to clear as the outer cardboard packs were very raggedy looking. And I do mean tattered & torn. But the shrinkwrapped disks inside were all fine. Stickers on the packs showed the prices dropping from $9.99 to $7.99 to $5.99. So I grabbed all 6 packs and was gobsmacked when they scanned at $3.99!!
Very happy with THAT purchase, I can tell you! And no, there's none left, I got the lot!
- +1 votewolfenator87 on 01/05/2012 - 19:51 ¶
0.66c a disc! You must be on cloud 9 in blu ray heaven.
+1 votethere's 2 good Japan based eBay sellers for recordable blu-ray
http://stores.ebay.com.au/buy-in-japan/
http://stores.ebay.com.au/japan-st/
+1 voteLycanthrope on 02/05/2012 - 11:18 ¶Saw some at Epping Plaza, $4.99. Looked like they had about 10 boxes in one of the side stands full of the cheap stuff. Grabbed a couple but gave up when the lady at the front of the long queue had a box of about 50 oranges which needed to be transferred to another box. Life's too short.
Like MrZ says, I remember when CDRs were those prices. The radio station I worked for bought a CD burner for about $500 and a stack of blanks by Verbatim for about $5 each. I was (still am!) the company nerd so they let me be in charge of it. Geez my friends thought I was a great guy back then! ;)
My first CD burner was $550, which was considered cheap at the time. Most burners back then were write only, but mine did rewrite as well. It was a Ricoh (do they even still make drives??), and did 2x write/rewrite. 4x burners were readily available then but I wanted the rewrite function so settled for 2x.
Yes! Ours was a Ricoh as well. And I remember it used to take about half an hour to burn a disk so it must've also been 2x. Used to spend half the weekend burning "Top 15" CDs to use the following week. And a few extras for mates, hence my sudden increase in popularity!
- +1 votewolfenator87 on 02/05/2012 - 06:23 ¶
Cool stories. I remember when the kid in school with the cd-burner became my best friend. "Like OMG, you can copy discs on your dad's pc?, awesome!". This was the late 90s.
If your in Queensland check out this gumtree post apparently this is from a supplier in Rocklea.
Works out to be 1.28 a disc thats 40cents cheaper.
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/rocklea/cd-s-dvd-s/ritek-blu-...
+1 voteOK young'uns who speak of inexpensive $500 CD burners…… the first burner I sold was seventeen years ago (1995), and I can still easily pull up the purchase order showing the wholesale price of the RICOH RS9200CD (software included) was $3,275 PLUS sales tax (probably 20% at that time). We sold it for $4,749 tax inclusive (though I think it may be worth less now).
From memory, it was around the size of a current large AIO inkjet printer.
- wolfenator87 on 03/05/2012 - 21:02 ¶
Sentimental attachment. Oh, how I grow fond of my old computers and peripherals, even after their useful lifespan, that I feel hesitant to discard them forever.
grab_ur_freebies on 03/05/2012 - 23:08 ¶We're attached cause we pay good money for it & also because we all love our tech otherwise we wouldn't have bought it in the first place. Right? :-)
Still have my HP external CD-RW from '98. Cost $800 from Hardly Normal!
- wolfenator87 on 03/05/2012 - 21:03 ¶
Might have to go hunting for those round, tingy-blue shiny things tomorrow!
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good find..