CD-RW - Are they dying?

Bob in St. Louis · « **on:** 9 Feb 2009, 09:21 pm »

Recently I was at Best Buy looking for some CD-RWs. With a display case 12' wide and four feet tall of nothing but blank CD and DVDs, they ONLY had one package of CD-RWs. And before you ask, they had zero open holes on the shelf. Everything they had was "R" only, no "RW".

I did a quick Google, but didn't see any mention of them going away.
Anybody know?

Bob

jqp · « **Reply #1 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 01:39 am »

One reason is that CD-Rs are so cheap - I usually get 100 for ~$10 (black Friday for example) when I buy them

planet10 · « **Reply #2 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 01:59 am »

I've never bothered with CD-RWs... if most people are like me, the market is shrinking.

dave

sts9fan · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 02:47 am »

I did not know people actually use those.

jqp · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 03:03 am »

Back when CD burners were in their heyday and CD-Rs were not so cheap ($1 per CD?) they were more popular.

Bill Baker · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 12:21 pm »

I went to buy some the other day at a local CVS and they had no CD-RW's on the shelf. All the had was DVD-RW's at $19 for 10 disc.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 12:46 pm »

Hmmm, interesting.

I guess people just use the CD-R and toss them when they're finished.
What I like to do is burn a few discs from my music collection and listen to them on the drive to and from work. Every so often I'd get tired of the "playlist" and re-burn new material on the old discs. Seems a shame to trash a perfectly good disc just because I'm ready for something new.

Bob

WerTicus · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 01:06 pm »

besides the price of write once discs being almost zero

CDRW's cannot be read by a huge number of ordinary cd players. (same goes with dvd players and DVDRW)