Currently rocking an internal blu ray drive and external floppy one (only because I couldn’t find an internal one), I can’t possibly imagine not having an optical drive on my computers.
I still own a lot of disks including software and movies, I won’t just throw everything away because the tech is now deemed obsolete (which is debatable on top of that, currently have a better quality on blu ray than on streaming platforms, plus no ads and works offline)
If only it were easier to install multi-disk software through wine/proton though…
Or by Valve and their clones to drive sales on their DRM’d game platforms. Movies haven’t really died out on physical, not as much or as early as PC games. Combine that with the tactics of idiots who also used Starforce and its clones and they’ve also left an impression outlasting the few games that were infected with the stuff. Now the new normal is to buy stuff infected with online account DRM as if that’s somehow better.
Okay but also I heard bluray movies can be directly played only on Windows, for other OSes you have to rip the movie. Must be fun.
I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway.
Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…
Currently rocking an internal blu ray drive and external floppy one (only because I couldn’t find an internal one), I can’t possibly imagine not having an optical drive on my computers. I still own a lot of disks including software and movies, I won’t just throw everything away because the tech is now deemed obsolete (which is debatable on top of that, currently have a better quality on blu ray than on streaming platforms, plus no ads and works offline) If only it were easier to install multi-disk software through wine/proton though…
Yeah I’m increasingly convinced the “Nobody uses discs anymore” thing is a coordinated manipulation campaign by rent-seeking streaming media giants…
Or by Valve and their clones to drive sales on their DRM’d game platforms. Movies haven’t really died out on physical, not as much or as early as PC games. Combine that with the tactics of idiots who also used Starforce and its clones and they’ve also left an impression outlasting the few games that were infected with the stuff. Now the new normal is to buy stuff infected with online account DRM as if that’s somehow better.
Okay but also I heard bluray movies can be directly played only on Windows, for other OSes you have to rip the movie. Must be fun.
I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway. Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…
Yeah discs are mostly a backup medium for me now, as I’d rather just read things off my server. :)
HOWEVER… I’m not absolutely swimming in terabytes as a lot of self-hosters seem to, which makes storage really suck right now.
…So we still use our blu-rays because I can’t afford to just throw gig after gig on platters like that. :(