Im just wondering what was the last dvd or cd you burned and what was it for? So you all still use dvds or cds? or have you found a alternative media?
Haha I talked to my kids about burning CDs in the way of talking about old tech they’ve never encountered. They wanted a CD burner after that to try it out, so I found an external USB burner and a cheapo little boom box. They ended up downloading songs from our media server and some stuff from NewGrounds and burning a bunch of mix CDs. It was fun!
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I was an early mp3 adopter, I remember my first one was this little Chinese device that held about ten somgs, so I think the last time I burned a CD was when I pirated Final Fantasy Tactics on PS1.
Xubuntu 20.10(?) I think.
I went to college and no longer had any computers with disk drives or a need for one, so I haven’t used many since.
However, I do want to start backing up old VHS tapes my family has onto disks, and burn some of our favorite online movies/shows onto disks so we can watch them if the internet goes down.
I had a college sports team reunion and several teammates asked for a copy of a championship game. I still had the digital file, so posted it in a Dropbox thinking that would be easy enough for people whose hobbies don’t involve computers.
Nope, I was spending too much time on tech support so offered flash drives with video files.
Nope, still too much for two teammates so after a phone call to understand what tech they had at home and were comfortable with, I burned them each DVDs.
It didn’t get that far, but I was prepared to use my library’s digital-to-VHS-to-digital workstation to copy them an old-timey VHS tape if the DVDs didn’t work. The library even has a stash of never-unwrapped VHS tapes they’ll sell you.
I recently purchased an older vehicle that came with a standard CD player and no AUX input. Setting down to plan and burn a dozen CD-Rs was quite nostalgic. I was surprised the local mega-mart actually had them in stock.
My car has a CD player also, and burning CDs is certainly more convenient than using the cassette player. (I did purchase the car new, but I guess I’ve had it a while)
Physical media I use constantly, but because burning Blu-ray and above is a bit trickier, I haven’t burned anything in more than a decade I’d say.
But yeah, using disks is at minimum weekly. Any movie I want to own is the fanciest, most comprehensive version available
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
I burned a HeXEn dvd last year for modding purposes on the original Xbox. Only thing I’ve burned in years. Still have a stack of blanks and an external USB disk drive, just in case.
No idea, it was a long time ago. If I have to guess it would probably was a linux distro, I remember some problems making a bootable usb or booting a laptop from usb so I might ended up burning a cd.
I backup stuff on blurays and DVDs a couple times a year. I also wrote a copy of FreeDOS and some software onto a stack of floppies recently.
I burned a custom johnny cash cd for my mom using some of her favorites. She played it for about 9 years before accidentally leaving it in the cd player when she sold her old car
Cool stuff. I did that with a USB stick which is objectively better but has less swag (as it is smaller lol)
I burned a selection of Expedition 33 songs as a Christmas present for my mother.
the last time I burned a disk was probably almost 9 years ago now. It was Ubuntu server because at the time I had the concept of "well I should have a hard install source in case I need to do a full reinstall. I dropped that mentality almost instantly though as I realized that it was better for me to just do backups because there was way too much contents for a DVD and I didn’t wanna have to reconfigure if it messed up.
Some years ago I burned a quadrophonic bootleg version of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Alan Parsons mix (which sounds much better then the official version) so a friend can listen to it on his 5.1 home cinema.
Besides that I haven’t used DVDs in more than a decade, harddrives are cheaper, reliable, always online, run btrfs with realtime checksums and are easy to backup. Besides last time I checked most DVDs don’t read anymore.
Burned, was probably a Linux ISO about 15 years ago. I still prefer to buy physical media (CDs and DVDs), just haven’t had a need to burn any in a while.
