For those of us who still use CD-R media, Woolworths, at least in Nambour, Qld, appears to be trying to get rid of stock.
The 50pk was the largest one available, but all the smaller packs were reduced as well (and I didn't take any notice of their prices).
Ppl still use these?
yep…
used one the other day when I had to give someone 200+ photos and didn't trust them to return a USB stick…
Photos of what?
His nude modeling
As sengork said above, some still use CDs to store media (I use DVDs).
or to play you music in the car if your player doesn't have a usb port….
What about Bluetooth?
Yep, this is one of my reasons. Also, I'm hoping to have a band that lasts enough that we can make a some demo CDs to give out at shows.
Are these the printable ones?
No.
I still have some CD-Rs in stock and I don't think I'll be able to use them up. I have DVDs and external HDs for media storage, I have some CD-RWs for the car player, OS distros have gone to DVD sized images, all my friends have access to the cloud for pictures, so no idea what I'll use them for.
There once was a time in the early 90's when a blank CD-R sold for $50ea. There were no PC CD burners and you needed a rather large hi-fi component CD burner to make a recording of your music CD that cost you $30 from the record store.
Nowadays it is quite rare to find practical use for CD-Rs given the abundance of DVD-Rs and availability of BD-Rs. For the nostalgic kick you can always download some shareware CD images over @ www.archive.org and pop them into an old Windows 9x machine to use them as intended (ie. no emulation and compatibility issues). The alternative is christmas decorations!
Nowadays it is quite rare to find practical use for CD-Rs given the abundance of DVD-Rs and availability of BD-Rs
CD players don't play DVD-Rs or BD-Rs…
hi mate, could you please upload receipt with purchase date, in sydney they are scanning full price, will try to ask manager to match price, thanks
For those that are worried about the disks in the spindles having been exposed to sunlight too long and therefore damaging the CDs inside I would say that Woolies would have large turnaround of these items. In smaller computer shops you'd routinely find disks that have been sitting next to a window for years (hint: dust). As to the actual quality of the disks, I'd say they'd be below Verbatim's standards, especially this being a cheaper CD era item as opposed to DVD/BD.
OP you might find that there is a lot of people on here who do not have much needs for optical disks . That being said there is a few of us lurking about who still like the read-only (burn and store away) capability compared to stock mechanical HDDs.