While still listed on their web site and available at some stores, I've noticed that Best Buy is down to carrying a single brand and size of DVD-RAM discs (the Panasonic 5-pack of 3x discs). As little as a month ago they still carried Fuji 10 packs.

Just a heads up in case you want to pick up one of the last few packs before they get a bit harder to get.

Apparently BB has gone full circle now. It was about a year ago they were closing out Panasonic DVD-RAM in favor of only carrying Fuji brand. I think they will carry what ever brand their buyers can get the best deal on? They probably don't sell enough to justify carrying more than one brand.

Dave

Apparently BB has gone full circle now. It was about a year ago they were closing out Panasonic DVD-RAM in favor of only carrying Fuji brand. I think they will carry what ever brand their buyers can get the best deal on? They probably don't sell enough to justify carrying more than one brand.

Dave

Dave, I totally agree.

It has been a few years since I bought DVD-RAM, so I was unaware they even carried Fuji; they only carried Panasonic the last time I looked for DVD-RAM there.

As long as BB carries products that can take DVD-RAM, I expect them to carry at least one brand of the media. Besides DVD recorders that can use DVD-RAM, they sell Sony and Toshiba notebooks that do. Both these notebooks use the Panasonic DVD burner, which can use DVD-RAM. Maybe other brands of notebooks or desktops BB sells can burn to RAM--I only know about the Toshiba and Sonys.

Edit: BB sells HP notebooks that use the same DVD multidrive, so that's at least three brands of notebooks sold at BB that can use DVD-RAM.

I noticed this a couple of moths ago (here (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=747848)). I can find Pannys now, but they're not displayed very prominently. They also upped the price by two bucks :mad:

The local Microcenter store has Verbatims for BB's old price.

I suggested in a post several months ago that the popularity of DVD recorders that can record on DVD-RAM didn't mean that DVD-RAM is in fact popular, since those models can also record on DVD-R media. The real indication is DVD-RAM disc sales, and judging by the stock that the stores are carrying DVD-RAM sales must be pretty small. Based on the scarcity of media I still believe that DVD-RAM is a niche product.

Carrying a single brand does not necessarily equate to scarcity - My local Best Buy keeps a significant stock of DVD-RAM on hand and appears to turn it over frequently so someone besides me must be buying it (Frankly, I buy it online directly from Panasonic as it is cheaper than in retail stores). But I also see DVD-RAM at Walmart, Staples, and CompUSA. In fact, I often find it easier to locate pack of DVD-RAM than cakeboxes of DVD-RW media for some reason.