US Chain Specials Today; Sun Aug 29th

[QuaiBoy]

Hi all. Just coming off a brainbusting straight 2 weeks of 16-18hr work days. Since the project is done, I thought I'd ride around this morning and browse some local stores for decent DVD media deals. Yes, this is relaxing for me (I'm a dork). My new DVR-108 should be here on Tuesday so I wanted to get a few kinds of media to try it out. Unless otherwise stated, these apply to -Rs (I'm firmly in that camp).

1st Stop: Office Depot

Holy crap! Not even a MIR price, I'm there. That's a better price than I can source MCC 4x online at. I ask a stock dude for the nearest sidecap-runneth-over, and he informs me that "no stores ever received them". Nice, no bait-and-switch there. They are substituting Verbatim 25pks of DVD+Rs but the store had no dashes in stock. The dash sub was Office Depot brand, to which I replied "fat chance". Since they were subing a "like" product, no rainchecks. Bastards. I decided not to bitch them out since they were all very nice and apologetic. I'll send my g/f over there to give 'em hell tomorrow.

2nd Stop: Walmart

A lot of you probably know that they've reduced the "every day" price of Maxell DVD-R 15pks to $18.83 a few weeks ago. This is great Made in Japan MXLRG02 product at an awesome price being a retail, non-sale item. I picked up a spindle to test in my new writer.

3rd Stop: Staples

Usually have something good. A few weeks ago Sony 4x DVD-R25pks were $20/each. Burned well in my 106D. This week they are offering 25pks TDK DVD+R 4x or DVD-R 2x at $19.94 each. Plenty of stock, but I passed due to bad experiences with TDK 2x. They also had crappy HP 50x CDRs at $7.94 each (no MIR), if that's your bag.

4th Stop: Circuit City
Turning into MIR whores, bigtime. Only had the nifty Verbatim DVD-R/+R Digital Movie 25pks on sale at $20 after $10 MIR. Pass, since it's just good-ole MCC with a cool label. Plus, I'll probably never see the $10 back.

Best Buy: Dunno
Won't buy a damn thing from that store on principal. Rather pay full retail. MIR ********.

Anyway, that's a breakdown as I see it thus far. If you know of a chain having a sale on 4x or higher DVD-Rs this week please feel free to share.

-Evan-

[tWoSour]

anyone know the media code on the tdk -r?

[budz]

anyone know the media code on the tdk -r?

I only know of the 25 pack spindles from COSTCO are media code TTG01. I've used 75 of them so far and they're good discs.

[tWoSour]

well, I just got back from Staples, and I got the only 2x -r pack left. Also, I was informed that Staples doesnt do rain-checks.

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 98 0C 13 .B...@....P.....
76 78 80 00 03 54 44 4B 47 30 32 00 04 30 30 30 vx...TDKG02..000
30 30 30 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 000.............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 ....

TDKG02, I'm a happy camper....if only I could get some more