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!
That sounds like a fun activity to do, neat idea.
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
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)
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.
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.
This past summer my GF took a trip to Canada and took her laptop. To preempt any fuckery at the border when she came back into the US I full-disk encrypted it with Veracrypt and I burned an emergency recovery DVD at the time of encryption. She didn’t have any trouble crossing back in, but better safe than sorry.
Once ventoy became a thing i stopped needing optical media. The last one i burned was most likely a linux distro.
I do remember the last bluray i burned was a bunch of roms for Mame and other emulator to mail someone. I think i burned all of maybe 4 bluray discs with that burner, it seemed like a good thing to get when i built the pc in 2010,but i almost never used it.
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 …
oh wow uhhhhhh
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.
I still used CDs, I recently got out all my music CDs again since I setup a new hifi system. But I haven’t burned a cd or dvd in about 15 years. In fact as I came across copies of burned cds in my collection I have gone and bought cheap used copies to replace them.
I dont burn, I rip with MakeMKV, reencode with ffmpeg using a denoise filter and svtav1 with strong compression.
That reduces filesize to about ¼ or less and makes it shareable with anyone, many times.
I love digital 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!
I can’t even remember the last thing I burned, had to have been over 10 years ago and it was likely install media for some Linux distro. I haven’t had a functional audio CD player in a very long time.
I did, however, rip a couple audio discs a few months ago. I was surprised that my USB disc drive still functioned.
edit: just read the other comments and I find it hilarious how almost everyone burned some distro install media
I burned a selection of Expedition 33 songs as a Christmas present for my mother.
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.
