DVD is dead. Long live DVD.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Your PC has a DVD drive? proper old Skool! Hard to even find an ATX case now with 5.2" drive bays. I have some on mine but they are used for a 2.5 and 3.5 HDDs (Racks) No optical drive, wouldnt know what to use it for now.

My machine must be about four years old but does what little I ask of

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

@ Jim - you'd hardly believe it but you can get a DVD player off Ebay for the price of a packet of fags

I stopped smoling in 2009

[mapuc]

I have an old Blu-Ray player which I use to watch DVD's or Blu-Ray disc on and I have a 4K tv.

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

My machine must be about four years old but does what little I ask of



I stopped smoling in 2009

I've never been a smoler

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I've never been a smoler

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

My machine must be about four years old but does what little I ask of

For clarification that most certainly was not a put down or anything!, my pc is of similar age to yours, (given crazy pricing now) But i cannot recall the last time I used a DVD drive for anything- tis all.

[mapuc]

I have a DVD, reader and burner which I bought around same time I got my gaming computer, since there weren't any drive installed. I mostly use the device to burn books-I buy a book online then I burn it into dvd-r. disc.

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

Every year Moira gets me 1 or 2 DVDs of movies she has said she would like to see. This year it was "The Northman" that she got her/me

[Skybird]

My PC is from autumn 2017. Will ride this Windows 10 rig to death, then probably quit Windows gaming on Windows, see what Windows stuff works under Linux, via Steam Proton. Racing in VR probably will be a thing of the past then. I maintain a secondary Linux system already now, since years.

I use a 32" TV in fullHD. More I do not need. Movies I watch via Quest 3 in a VR cinema. I have a Bluray/DVD disc player, CD burner in PC, and an external Bluray/DVD burner. I even still have two VHS recorder, one of them factory-sealed.


Honestly said, all these things have started to interest me less and lesser with every year. And dealing with PC needs and Windows quarrels simply kills my nerves now.

[Platapus]

I still have some movies on VHS that I can't find on DvD! (been meaning to burn them to DvD for a long time. )



I have a nice collection of DvDs and I like the format.

[Eichhörnchen]

^
I've done that a few times (still have boxes & boxes of VHS in the garage, bought and home recordings) - "The Mummy's Shroud", "The Keep" and "Come And See". These did all eventually get released on DVD once they'd reached cult status - but at a high price - very high in the case of The Keep, the complete version of which we had to get from Australia

[Platapus]

Because I have low friends on high places, I was able to snag a DvD copy of the original versions of the first starwars movie.


This way I can show the grandkids how it really was.

[Eichhörnchen]

The ardent rush to get almost everything we do online - it's called "putting all your eggs in one basket" - then along comes your enemy with his cyber warfare

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

The ardent rush to get almost everything we do online - it's called "putting all your eggs in one basket" - then along comes your enemy with his cyber warfare

Or a solar event. Or Robert Habeck.