Posted by AZ Nomad on 06/16/07 17:29

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:47:50 -0400, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:


>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:11:06 GMT from Phisherman <noone@nobody.com>:
>> You're welcome. I buy all my blank DVDs here. Never had any problems
>> with the premium Taiyo Yuden DVDs (the "budget" DVDs are the rejects).
>> If you want you can sign up and they will automatically email you
>> specials.

>Are the budget ones *rejects*?

They're not. Nobody does 100% quality control on optical media; they'd cost
5 times as much. It's a lot easier to charge 5 times as much and put a few
pennies into pretty packaging and marketing instead.

>I thought they were just budget
>because they come in a stack with no spindle.
Correct, but they're missing the special feeling of pride that comes from having
spent too much.

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