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?
About a year ago, burned my family photo collection as yet another backup. Took a stack of DVD-R’s to write, but now I also have it in one more format!
It has been so long that recently I borrowed a portable DVD drive to extract auto diagnostic software, completely forgetting I have a laptop with a DVD drive.
Dvd (+/-)r for an Xbox 360. I don’t personally use the media often, but I do like blessing friends if they ask.
I burnt a Windows 7 install disc about a month ago. A guy I work with found his old PC and wanted a fresh install so he could give it to someone.
I discovered Ventoy about a week ago…
About 6-7 years ago. I had a friend who still had some files on a 5-1/4 floppy. I kept an old Win95 PC specifically with a bunch of old drive types and a DVD burner, so I could rescue old files & move them to DVD. Sadly, that PC stopped booting about 2 years ago. I did consider trying to resurrect it, but neither of my current PCs even have a built-in DVD drive, so I think it’s safe to say that moving files to DVD isn’t moving the files forward enough anymore.
Probably some Linux iso before booting from USB became the default. I still remember the drama about the Ubuntu ISO outgrowing the 700MB of a CD.
Last year a friend of mine was feeling romantic and wanted to give a physical audio disc to a crush. It’s not a mixtape but still …
It was in like 2006. A dvd rw full of mp3s to play on my portable dvd player that could decode all the useful codecs.
I was doing a bit of cleaning recently and came across a binder/collection of burned DVDs and PS2 games. The kids were young and did a lot of travel by car, which had DVD players strapped to the front head rests. I had a bunch of stuff ready like anime like Inuyasha, Ghibli, Avatar TLA, home videos, VCDs, etc. I even found my old bare bones SATA DVD player that was stripped out of the PC, and a new pack of blank DVDs too. I bought a USB enclosure and the darned thing still works perfectly on my current Linux machine.
Probably me trying to find the right Dreamcast game file a few weeks ago to burn to CD because I saw on a forum that you can supposedly play it without needing the maraca controllers. The burn worked, but the game didn’t, not even using the utopia disc I burned about a month ago. So, I probably messed up.
Burned a handful of DVDs a couple years ago, as backup of photos I took. Not the most convenient, but I actually do like having an album of discs with the dates written on them. Reliving memories this way hits completely different than browsing a directory tree
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!
That sounds like a fun activity to do, neat idea.
Probably like 2010, 2011 was my last time? It would have been movies for our dvd player in our bedroom when my (now) wife and I were in University.
I got an iPod Nano for my birthday in the fall of 2005, which brought the burning cd factory that was my computer to a screeching halt. I’d still back up files and stuff using CDs, but it went from like going through a carousel of blanks a month to going through a carousel of blanks in like 3 years, within a very short period of time.
I burned an audio CD just last week. My old Chevy truck has some mid 2000’S radio swapped into it and it doesnt have bluetooth or aux (well, has aux but it’s buried in the back of the dash). So I burn a CD once in a while to pop in and enjoy.
I keep asking this, but do yall also lack radio? Bluetooth to radio transmitters were what I used in these situations years ago
I do have radio but I’m lazy and haven’t gone to get a retransmitter. I find the act of burning CD’s kinda fun anyway, and they sound better.
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.
