I'll have you know that Wrexham is still 1979. We had UB40 here last night.

so 1998 :smile:

Hot for Verbatim rather than generic or own brand CD-Rs.

What do people use these for nowadays ???

Coasters?

Will have a look for them. I still use them for burning retro console games for my modded Playstation 1, Sega Saturn or Dreamcast.

And yet Wrexham is in Wales....go figure.

Lol, I bought a RICOH x2 speed burner in this year for £365!! Crazy... but even crazier the HDD in that pc was like 2.1.gb, and the pc without the writer cost £1400!!

Ha I was only joking! Trust me, I grew up on these things. Got my first PC with a CD writer in 2000. I was one of the very first kids in school to have one - and boy did I make the most of that 4x CD writer! It's 17 years on now, so yes, CD-R's are not in demand like they were. Personally, I still love CD's.

But to say "it's only the sheep mainstream that don't use them" is ridiculous. The majority of people will not have burned a CD for years.... Yes, very useful when you need one, but times have quickly moved on from relying on CD-R's!

Not ignorance, but speaking from my experience, so quite the opposite. Indeed, you are the one making ignorant assumptions and numerous grammatical errors ("it's" "would have", by the way). I had several (computer nerd) friends with CD burners back in 1998, and I recall that being the year when burners started to become available in consumer PCs. Thus, 1998 was very exciting for 18-year old me. Many PCs these days don't even have CD drives for boot discs, and the other suggested use for them has been to support 1990s technology in cars or aged consoles (excepting coasters). Clearly, other technology has surplanted most of the original uses of CD-Rs. :wink: PS/ we aren't in the 2000s anymore; we are nearing the end of the 2010s.

Good deal if you need them. Used to love burning cds. Was cool knowing you could make your own mix discs and albums in cd quality!

Who remembers the audio cd recorders too, by Phillips :)they weren't pc based. You'd hook up to your hifi. They were about £400!oOX)

Grabbed last 2 on shelf in Chester store, wouldn't have bothered looking if I hadn't seen this. thanks OP!

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I make my errors due to disability so let me put that to you as discrimination.

And where did I say technology hasn't surpassed use for cd's? I mean I even implied that but professionals still have use for them (I personally use rewritables but they are a nightmare to get working in this day and age as they degrade)

But the mainstream are the ones that only care about latest tech and only then when it becomes fashionable, I was burning cds in 1999 at college, I was burning dvds in 2001/2002, I now burn blu rays for cds and dvds people said there was no point even back then saying things like recording onto cassette or video was fine, then when each thing become fashionable they acted like they always sided with it and why even touch the technology they thought until then was amazing.

You know why? I can put hundreds if not thousands of photos or media files as backup onto a blank blu ray at extreme high quality, I can take some to friends who want pictures and leave them with them as a cd will cost like 10p rather than give them a pen drive.

By the way I trained in IT, so don't speak to me like I don't know technology.

I had floppy discs for drivers in the 2000's until I started slipstreaming them onto things called cds, only when Vista came round were OS's on dvd even video games as late as 2010 came on multiple cds.

The general public won't have a need but will be the ones without backups who then complain even if they can redownload something at time it takes hence the mainstream not wanting them, and whilst I now use blu ray backups as can fit almost 50 gig on it means I can shove rips so high quality onto a disc they make streaming even 1080p look low quality and fit a few dozen episodes on.

Usb is good and all but its only useful for temporary storage.