Optical Media Survey

Anyone here still use physical media like my nostalgic ass?

This is the survey for you:

=> https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk

Fill it out, even if you've never used a CD in your life.

=> ☕️ dce

2024-07-01 · 7 months ago

9 Comments ↓

=> 🚀 stack · 2024-07-01 at 13:43:

My first CD burner cost about $10,000 each CD blank was about $20 and more than half of them were turned into coasters due to bad burns...

The burner form factor was a sealed mid size tower. It was 1x, so a burn was over an hour for a full CD, with an endless 'finalizing' step. a fat SCSI cable connected it, with $60 (pre-inflation) terminator plug. Once burning, we kept our voices down and tiptoed around the office for the fear of a bad burn.

=> ☕️ Morgan · 2024-07-01 at 17:31:

Done.

No mention of cassette tapes, disappointed ;)

=> ☕️ Morgan · 2024-07-01 at 17:32:

Oh, the title says "optical". Well, if that's what you care about, fair enough ;)

=> 💎 istvan · 2024-07-01 at 18:15:

I use 3.5” floppies on the regular. Also Zip disks. But that’s magnetic. I only use optical media when reformatting computers that don’t support USB install.

=> 🍀 gritty · 2024-07-01 at 23:11:

this reminds me of a project I want to do or have done: a capsule that does nothing but custom surveys.

I rarely use optical media these days, but have been considering a CD player for my car to play my collection.

=> 👾 fab · 2024-07-02 at 15:44:

I bought a mobile DVD player in the beginning of this year to rip some of my favorite TV shows which I bought as complete Series DVD sets.

And I will continue to do so as long as I find these sets to buy. Unfortunately it's already impossible to find "Star Trek TNG" as complete DVD set. I saw an offer for a used DVD set of TNG for 300 EUR(!)

=> 🚀 chirale · 2024-07-04 at 05:40:

I've watched for the first time 007: Casino Royale this week on a used Blu-Ray disk I bought for about 2€. On Amazon you can "buy" the movie for 10€ and rent for 4€. I don't call it nostalgia.

=> ⛵️ kebokyo [...] · 2024-07-08 at 23:47:

when I got my newest car and found out it has a 6CD changer, I was so excited... finally, I can listen to multiple albums at once without having to switch CD's all the time!!!!

still no aux, but apparently it's not too difficult to mod one in... i could finally have my dream audio setup (at the price of terrible gas mileage ;w;)

=> 🦂 zzo38 · Sep 13 at 03:55:

I use CDs and DVDs, both for music/movies and for computer files. I also use DVDs for backups, and for when I want to watch a show on the TV