https://youtu.be/rnr13AHzzuQ

Enjoy the HPS lamps, neon signs, the incidental mercury, and a couple hundred incandescents used to light a bridge in a fancy way. Must've been special long life bulbs  you'd be swapping lamps on the daily.
The monument for peace at Dam Square was (and still is, probably - the other decorative lanterns were metal halide at least at the beginning of this year) lit by metal halide.

Pretty impressive camera. Most of Amsterdam's roads were lit with high pressure sodium lamps, but despite the bad color rendering of HPS lamps, the video still looks great.
In reality it looks more amber, of course. The videographer really did some work to make it look as normal as possible.

My old van still has the original , working AM/FM 8-Track stereo .

I sure do. My car has a CD and a cassette player which both work perfectly.

 I have TONS of purchased music CDs as well as cassettes . I even have some 8-Tracks !! I don't mess with downloading music and the one burned CD my brother made for me years ago is degrading badly ! I also have TONS of 45's and a decent amount of LP records .

 Today I went on a roadtrip to pick up a Infranor 1000w MH flood light I found on Marketplace . The drive was roughly 2 hrs. each way . Photos soon . This thing is absolutely HUGE !!! It's the biggest floodlight I own ! 

 I'd say the seller found a lamp in the sleeve and figured like any other person who knows nothing about lights  that it was new . If you know nothing about a HID lamp , how are you gonna know if it's bad or not ?

Alright so that sorts out starting characteristics, but does anyone know about CWA compatibility issues with any of these lamps?

@xmaslightguy - That's nice. Seems you've been listening to a lot of them since you've worn out CD Players 😁

I also agree, it's not the best place to store photos on CDs, as only you need a few scratches and the CD is done. Back then you could do it on CDs, as where else could you store? But nowhere days you have a Computer, Pendrive, etc. If it's not your only place to store images, then I guess you're good 👍

No, scratches aren't the issue. Data disks use a lot of redundancy and error correction.

The big problem is that CD-Rs use dyes that can degrade over time, just like pictures and slides can fade in color. This is different than pressed CDs - those use physical hills and valleys, and not dyes. Though in certain batches, the reflective layer can oxidize (more often seen in laserdisks).

Archival rated CD and DVD-rs exist. You can consider those for long term storage, because HDDs may physically go bad and wear out in 10 years or so, and all solid state memory is not archival rated at all.

I just keep multiple copies of my media on HDDs that i replace every 10 years or so.

CD, it Is a decade i don't use them.
DVD, i used 2 years ago for a presentation.
Blu ray, i used for backup my Nas, However, last year i got LTO-6 tape drive (2.5. TB each tape) for "cheap" (600€), so my disk drive are getting the dust.
Maybe i Will use them again for small backups, but 25GB are not enought for a lot of stuff i have in NAS (audio+video recording that are easly 100GB or more).

I'll keep that Ford Focus in mind and will try it out if it's still available between now and when I have the big money in my account,
but this time I'm going to try more dealerships more than private sellers. Might be tougher to find a good vehicle for $3000 through dealers,
but I want to try my best to get someone who actually took care of the car. That Ford Focus does look as if it's been taken care of though,
so I will give them a shot when I can.