Soldato
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Maybe hes starting a collection
Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])
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Associate
Maybe he burns dvds to support the Taliban.
Associate
My Eaglemoss big TOS Enterprise came in the post today. Bigger than I expected. I felt like a little kid at Christmas opening the box, seeing as none of the family care about my own little gift to myself, I had to post it somewhere.
Soldato
I miss the days of buying blank DVDs by the 100s and having 2 dvd burners going at once for "backup" purposes. I have one in my PC currently, but its not been used since installing windows. There just no need for them now with big hhds 
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.Burning mix tapes from music downloaded off kazaa?
Reminds me of when I was 15 and had to burn mp3s from *cough* legitimate sources on to a cd and then copy the cd to a cassette so I could listen to music on my walkman whilst on my paper round
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I just thought that I'd have a look in mine to see if there was anything inside.
*presses button*.........takes about 10 seconds to open.
*bats fly out*
Yep, don't use mine either!
Soldato
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Usb cd/dvd drive ftw
Soldato
I have a DVD drive in my system, but only because my non-tech savvy parents kept on asking me to burn the photos from their camera's card to a disc so they could take it and show family and friends. And yes, I have tried explaining to them that sticking them on a USB drive would be far easier and would be able to hold way more images than a disc.
Their new TV has USB sockets so I bought my Mother a 32GB flash drive on the off-chance that she would see sense and start using it - but no, it now lives in a trinket box and she still insists on discs and using the blu-ray player to display the photos on the TV.
Their new TV has USB sockets so I bought my Mother a 32GB flash drive on the off-chance that she would see sense and start using it - but no, it now lives in a trinket box and she still insists on discs and using the blu-ray player to display the photos on the TV.
Man of Honour
Just my big rocket and the bedroom.
I've just watched the film Hidden Figures - superb.
Tablet computer connected to the cloud with screen mirroring on a smart TV is the future brother.
Man of Honour
At work I still burn around 30 cd's a week and I'll make around 10 ISO images of cd's.
Soldato
I still burn copies of my music to play in the car
But that's about all it gets used for.
But that's about all it gets used for.
Soldato
I have no means of playing CDs. You'd think dvd-rs would be at like 120912x speed now with technology, but I suppose when you sell 2 a year...
Caporegime
They're physically limited in speed. If they cross a certain threshold there's a risk discs start going pop
Commissario
As was starting to happen with CD's.
From memory CD drives were hitting something like 52x read speeds at the edge before they died out.
At that speed they were from memory, close to the same RPM as some angle grinders and it was not unknown for discs to fall apart during use.
One of the advantages DVD's then BD's gave was not only higher data density, but higher data read rates at lower speeds, meaning a lot less stress on the drive mechanisms and far less chance of a disc going pop.
IIRC, Kenwood used to make a CD drive with a laser splitter, so rather than spinning the drive faster, they could read multiple places on the disc at once.
The problem was you couldn't split more than about 7 beams and still be a class 3 laser, and to go to class 2 and get more power, you needed a licence.
In the end, things have gone solid state with USB sticks and SSD because of the hassle of dealing with the physics of moving parts. Hard drives will probably go the same way when SSDs get bigger/cheaper.