Brick & Mortar store prices similar to online prices now!

[atreides93]

I have been buying DVD-R's at online stores exclusively because the local stores around here had much higher prices for them. Anyway I was recently shopping at COMPUSA and was shocked to see very good prices for DVD-R's. The best price I saw was for DVD+R's which is unfortunate since I have a Pioneer A03. But anyway they wanted $15 for a 10 pack of Fuji DVD+R's. Is that amazing or what? That comes to $1.50 a piece for name brand DVD+R's. The best deal they had on DVD-R's was a 100 pack for $49.95 and next was a 10 pack for $36.99 for TDK 2X.

[waldok]

True here in Luxembourg too.
You can get DVD+R at 1.9 Euros (it is Optodisc and another german brand I never heard of before). These might not be as good as well-known brands, but it is really interesting to see the prices decreasing like this. I bought a few to see what they are worth.

Waldok:cool:

[Ollie W. Holmes]

I'd be wary of stuff from CompUsa. They still primarily stock memorex and imation, two of the most problematic suppliers. I have never had consistently good experience with memorex, whether dvd-ram, dvd-r, or dvd-rw. It's like a crap-shoot. Best Buy is the only b&m place with "competitive" prices on the real name-brand blanks, i.e., Verbatim dvd-r and dvd+r. At $2 per blank, it's not cheap, but I'm willing to pay an extra 50 cents to avoid coasters and discs which may eventually go bad. It takes a long time to get dvds from Netflix, and one of the things you want to avoid is having to rent the same movie twice, just because a burn went bad.

[leisuredoc]

Ollie,

I'll second that on Memorex. The first 10-pack from Best Buy was a great media, showing a Taiyo Yuden lead-in, as I posted in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41762&highlight=leisuredoc

My daughter bought me another 1o-pack for Christmas and unfortunately didn't save the receipt. All were skipping or freezing on my Sony standalone and had huge error rate spikes when scanned by K's Probe. Not just at the end (edges)but anywhere and everywhere.

Now I'm getting Taiyo Yudens from rima.com and they are all perfect and cost about 40% less than the so-called Memorex.

leisuredoc
:p