Who still burns DVD's in 2013 !?!?

[GoodEnough]

I watch DVD's on my PC. (Old classic films)
My SATA DVD died so I got a new one for $15.
I saw all these comments about burning DVD and no "coasters".
I was like, is this 1998?
Who burns DVDs when you can have 32GB USB drives?
Or massive TB drives?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827136259

 

[nickbits]

I do for bootable ISOs

 

[denis280]

I keep important stuff on dvd.USB drive can died just like hdd.with no warning.

 

[GoodEnough]

CDROMs are known to peel after a few years.
I think storing on USB or SATA HD is safer.

 

[DigDog]

haven't even plugged in the DVDR. maybe two years ago, once.

 

[frostedflakes]

CDROMs are known to peel after a few years.
I think storing on USB or SATA HD is safer.

Pretty sure I have some that are going on 10 years.

If you buy quality media and store them properly (out of sunlight, low humidity, etc.) they should last many years.

Or if you're really serious about archival, something like M-DISC should hold up very well to UV, temperature, humidity, etc.

 

[Concillian]

I do for bootable ISOs

You know you can install those ISOs on a USB stick, right?
Quicker to write and quicker to boot if you have a spare 8GB stick sitting around (most people do.)

 

[bbhaag]

I still use them for bootable ISOs too. I also burn the occasional movie to DVD for family members. Other then that I don't use them.

 

[bbhaag]

You know you can install those ISOs on a USB stick, right?
Quicker to write and quicker to boot if you have a spare 8GB stick sitting around (most people do.)

I've never had success creating a bootable usb stick. I've tried a couple of times but gave up. Once I tried it for Win7 the other time was a Ubuntu distro called Peppermint OS 3. Both times I failed so now I stick to optical media.
I'm pretty sure both times were a pebkac error on my part.:| So now I just stick to what I know.

 

[WilliamM2]

You know you can install those ISOs on a USB stick, right?
Quicker to write and quicker to boot if you have a spare 8GB stick sitting around (most people do.)

I have several bootable USB drives. But for things I don't use often, or for using on older computers that won't boot to USB, CD's or DVD's are great, and a lot cheaper.

As far as discs going bad, I haven't had one fail yet, unless it was physically broken. I have CD-R's that are over 15 years old, and audio CD's that are almost 30 years old. I'm not too worried.

 

[C1]

re:OP

Are you kidding? How do you propose getting media from the public library onto your HDD?

Also, HDDs are good, but jump drives to my knowledge (or the last I left them) are not considered a trusted source for permanent storage.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-usb-flash-drives-safe-permanent-storage.html

 

[RaistlinZ]

Haven't burned a DVD in many years.

Haven't been to a public library in probably 16 years.

 

[LagunaX]

I ocassionally use Sothink HD Moviemaker to burn 720p and 1080p videos and movies onto regular 4.7gb blank DVDs with a standard DVD burner in AVCHD format so they can be played right off disc in HD on any blu ray player.

 

[Arkaign]

Still have a use, though I think more than half of people don't need them. New PCs shouldn't come with them. BD or nothing for new box PCs. That would lower the mfg cost a bit, make for smaller cases, and with USB 3.0 on any new PC worth a damn, they could just offer USB 3.0 BD/DVDRW drives for those that need them.

I personally use them all the damn time, but I donate a lot of time refurbing PCs for a local charity, and quite a lot of even fairly recent PCs don't support boot from USB.

 

[BrightCandle]

I don't burn DVDs very often although they are occasionally useful for sharing things with the family or friends. Rather than give them a flash drive that costs pounds I would rather give them a DVD worth 10p. I might get the flash drive back but I don't just keep a few spares around for lending out.

The reader part of the DVD however I use a lot. I still buy most of my games with physical DVDs as its quite a bit cheaper than digital for newly released games and if there is a zero DRM option I take it.

 

[code65536]

DVDs? Nah. But Blu-Rays? Yep.

25GB of storage for $0.50 to $1 apiece. Great for backing up data that is most precious to me (one copy on a RAID5 array, one copy on a disc at my home, one copy on a disc at the home of a relative).

 

[Soulkeeper]

I still use them for bootable disks
linux install cd's and such
or If I want to burn something to play in a dvd player

or if something still fits on a standard cd i'll burn to that
they are so cheap it's not an issue
I mostly use them a few times then throw them in the recycle bin.

 

[Phynaz]

I still burn plenty of DVDs, just burned five yesterday.

 

[shortylickens]

to loan a friend something when they dont have a spare thumb drive.

 

[ShadowVVL]

I still use them for Linux installs and storing things.I still have burned cds and cdrws from 2001 that are still working.

 

[sequoia464]

Just picked up a new burner a couple of weeks ago, don't use it a lot but it is still handy occasionally. Think I might have been the last guy on the planet to give up on floppies also.

 

[Zodiark1593]

I tend to use my DVD drive for long-term archival. I don't use Blu Rays simply cause I'd have to fork out $$$ just to play movies, and is expensive compared to an additional HDD alongside my 2 TB External.

In addition, I have another 350 GB external, a 250 GB drive from my old lappy, and 600 GB local. Data I do not want lost, I have a copy on each of my external drives, and a DVD, so unless my house is hit by a meteor, I have little to worry about (of course, I'd have bigger problems than some lost data if my house was suddenly demolished).

 

[StinkyPinky]

I still use them for bootable stuff from time to time. I think I installed Windows 8 from DVD. Plus my dvd writer is also a blu-ray player so I watch the occasional blu-ray.

 

[John Connor]

Bootable ISO's and backing up files. Can't afford a BlueRay right now otherwise I'd go to that for data back up. I do use an external HDD too.

 

[biostud]

I've just done the opposite. Made a bootable win 8.0 USB and copied my office 2010 from dvd to harddrive, since my desktop don't have a DVD drive and windows has become somewhat unstable after win8.1 upgrade.