Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Is It Possible to Purchase Empty DVD Boxes?

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Community » The Afterlife » Is It Possible to Purchase Empty DVD Boxes? (Page 1)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Author

Topic: Is It Possible to Purchase Empty DVD Boxes?

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 06-19-2002 02:03 AM

I want those cool black Amaray boxes. Anyone know where I can buy them? I would think that one could buy them being as CD jewel cases (does anyone actually keep their jewels in these?) are super easy to find.

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-19-2002 02:13 AM

AOL gives them out for the taking. Just head into an Office Depot and tell them you would like to try AOL on each and every one of your 500 computers with 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 hours FREE (during the first 30 days).

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-19-2002 02:53 AM

That's for sure...

I just picked up a few AOL disks, but now they are putting them in a cool metal can....

Hey, did anyone ever consider that there are only 720 hours in a 30 day month? How in the hell can you get 1,000 hours out of that unless you sign in through the back door under another screen name to check your email?

AOL won't let you stay signed on for 30 days without getting booted unless you have Film-Tech brought up in Microshaft Internet Explorer...

| IP: Logged

Christopher Duvall
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 500
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 06-19-2002 02:55 AM

Actually, I just picked 3 up from Walmart the other day. They don't sell blank discs but they sell those...go figure.

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-19-2002 03:07 AM

Paul, I remember hearing AOL was getting sued by someone for false advertising who wanted that many free hours (as you said, far more than is in a month's timeframe). John Pytlak probably has a link to the case.

Anti-boot is just one of the many wonderful reasons to make Film-Tech your home page!

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-19-2002 03:11 AM

Brad, Film-Tech IS my home page on MSIE....

| IP: Logged

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 06-19-2002 03:13 AM

They give away AOL discs in DVD boxes? I am referring to boxes like the one pictured below:

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-19-2002 03:14 AM

Joe, it sure looks like it....

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-19-2002 03:15 AM

In fact I have one. Do you want it? Email me, and I'll send it to you.

| IP: Logged

Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 590
From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002

posted 06-19-2002 03:39 AM

I've seen them at Good Guys A/V in packs of five. You could also check Circuit City or Best Buy. I have one from an AOL disc that i'm keeping just in case...

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-19-2002 04:32 AM

Wal-Mart tends to carry the AOL discs in flimsy sleeves, but places like Office Depot and all of the AOL discs I keep getting in the mail come in actual DVD boxes like you pictured above.

| IP: Logged

Mark Ogden
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-19-2002 06:29 AM

Joe:

If you want to buy the Amrays in bulk, Bags Unlimited, right down the street from John P. in Rochester NY, is your best bet (in fact I'm shocked that I'm beating him here with the link). I've been dealing with them for years, absolutely reliable.

http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/detail.asp?cat=8&subcat=252&product_id=cdvd1a

| IP: Logged

John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 06-19-2002 08:15 AM

Mark Ogden said: "I'm shocked that I'm beating him here with the link"

Even the "Human Search Engine" needs to rest occasionally!

Now if I were only a "Film god" again.

------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

| IP: Logged

Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 06-19-2002 02:16 PM

I have a stack of those DVD cases (and the smaller ones Joe is talking about) that AOL sent me in the mail. The only problem with them is that the mailing address label is impossible to remove.

Now when the CDs come, they're simply shrinkwrapped to a piece of cardboard. AOL should just send their software on CD-RWs. That way, they can at least be re-used instead of filling up landfills or littering streets. I still remember re-formatting a stack of AOL disks with a piece of tape over the write-protect hole back in the day.

=TMP=

| IP: Logged

David Favel
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 764
From: Ashburton, New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 06-19-2002 08:26 PM

Try also Blockbuster or someone like that.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.