I do not understand the bizarre flower motif on Taiyo Yuden's products. I guess it's a Japanese thing. This looks like a box of tissues.

Even stranger is that it's apparently one of the best brands. I've been carrying around this box for fifteen years now, waiting for the right occasion.

Jorpho wrote:

This looks like a box of tissues.

yuden.jpg

🤣 🤣 🤣

Indeed it does!

Anybody had one of these?

Yep had those, also had mmore, philips, verbatim, fuji and others.

Jorpho wrote:

I do not understand the bizarre flower motif on Taiyo Yuden's products. I guess it's a Japanese thing. This looks like a box of tissues.

It seems so. Japanese aesthetics is... different.

I remember some (very) old Verbatim DataLife jewel cases with a dark blue cover, and a few years after that, a yellow/blue design (writing DataLife plus, metal azo or something fancy like this), some golden "Sentinel" discs(?), and Taiyo Yuden's "That's CDR/That's Write" brand with a black/blue/white cover (ca. 1998? used them a lot with my first SCSI recorder unit; the Yamaha CDR400t* at a blazing fast 4x, praying not to get a buffer underrun). These media were out a couple of years before the Creation, MMORE, Intenso, Sony, Fuji, BASF/Emtec budget brands filling the market, and you could feel that they were of higher quality.

*As a bonus, it came with Win32/CIH-infected firmware update straight from Yamaha's site!

Kleenex brand CD-R. Now with the refreshing scent of lilacs. 🤣

Jorpho wrote:

I do not understand the bizarre flower motif on Taiyo Yuden's products. I guess it's a Japanese thing. This looks like a box of tissues.

yuden.jpg

Even stranger is that it's apparently one of the best brands. I've been carrying around this box for fifteen years now, waiting for the right occasion.

(Comes out of hiding for a short time)

Usually I had the cake boxes (cheaper overall), but occasionally got some loose singles from friends and relatives.

I know this is a CD-RW, but had to post it; looks different from all the others I have.

(Goes back into hiding)

Oh the memories. Now that's the Verbatim DataLifePlus i was talking about earlier 😀

These are all great. It's the simple things that hit you, who could have ever guessed we'd looking back on these things so fondly 🤣 .

Here i have a collection of discs i have used, and use.

I love thise 8cm discs. I used them on my 8cm freecom mp3 player.

There used to be a site, a sort of database, with tech info on hundreds of types of CD-R media. ATIP, exact byte size, product UPC, etc. I think it also included photos.

I don't remember what the site was called but I wonder if it still exists.

EDIT: Found it in an old bunch of bookmarks. The site is dead but some of it is archived. It also included DVD-R info.

Example CD-R info page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050222111558/htt … cdr.php?ID=1545

All archived specific CD-R pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cdr-f … tailcdr.php?ID=*

All archived manufacturer pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cdr-forum … nbieter.php?ID=*

All archived brand pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cdr-forum … nbieter.php?ID=*