Looks like mercury vapor lamps have become RARE in the USA virtually OVERNIGHT.

Nope, but I am really looking forward to buying the upcoming Madonna album on a CD, as I absolutely love Madge! 

That's quite nice 😎 I haven't been burning Photos on CDs pretty much, though I use CDs for Music and stuff like that.

I also forgot to include that I use CDs for Music

I still have bunch of CD-R at home.  Once a great while, I would burn pictures into the CD-R for archival purpose.  the last time I used it in 2020

I mean, it's not a really topic on Vinyls, but I suppose so if you're not in CDs.

I never really held a VINYL in real life, but I can Imagen how big they are compared to a CD.

I also recommend being careful with Vinyl, to not scratch it much and hold it with your fingers lightly. As of, I'm not going to explain more, I've never interacted with a vinyl, only CD, Pendrive and Cassette.

Does a Vinyl count? I got a twenty one pilots Breach album vinyl in special Red edition!

Today I bought a good few new, unused CDs from Kaufland, and for a price €6.99, I think it was a little bit expensive for 25 discs (well at least better price than the other shop for €10.99 for 25 discs).

I was born around the era where USBs were starting to get popular and CDs were starting to not be used by much people who don't care whatever they use, whenever it's Vinyls, Cassettes, etc. I pretty much used CDs in our old Volvo 2009 car until 2024, where the car was sold and no need was burn CDs anymore, as the new car was for USB / Bluetooth.

Only now I burnt a few CDs and used them in a cheap unknown  CD and USB player. The CD kept skipping a few milliseconds every good 10 seconds. I thought it was the issue with the CDs, but later when in the BMW I used a CD, there was no issue with the "skipping". I guess a cheap laser was fitted in the player, unlike they use a good laser that actually does the job properly, like almost every CD player that has a known manufacture.


So does anyone else use CDs, and if not, what guy are you, Cassette, Vinyl, Pendrive??

Yes! Someone knows about the factory in Emmen! The office in Capelle aan den IJssel is still closed to this day, and the factory at Emmen was transfered to Sustainder B.V which is another street lighting company, and the showcasing area is still full of Industria fixtures.

As for the Factory in Spain, i've seen production go very well there, they make specific fixtures in different countries, for example the current Iridiums aren't produced in Spain, but in Poland, Spain produces all of signify's flood lights and tunnel lights, the UrbanFlex, Citymood, Luma², Sunstay and Sunstay Pro, TownTune, Milewide gen2, Classic Street, Villa gen2, Citycharm Fluid, and Citysoul gen2.

For all those fixtures there is a specific assembly line.

But i've never seen any production of electronic ballasts in Spain other than Poland.

Two thumbs up for this interesting article!

It's sad to see Indal's demise since it was absorbed by Philips and then transferred to Signify. The Industria/Indal factory in the city of Emmen, Netherlands was then quickly closed as was the Dutch Indal office in Capelle aan de Ijssel. It remains to be seen how long the Signify Valladolid factory will remain open before production there is also moved to its Polish sister factory in Ketrzyn or Chengdu in China.

I saw that recently, I think they're just selling NXT-Lites in the US.

In Pacific Palisades they've used some of the standard RoadMax on some power poles, replacing LADWP (I'm pretty sure) HPS lights.