Wtf are all those people having desktops and laptops without optical drive?

Is it retarded to still have internal optical drives?

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yes

not if you really need it

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Optical media is shit and needs to go and stay go. I'm happy that we're moving away from it.

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They have been obsolete ever since we could use our phones and usb to boot isos.

And said isos come with drivers for basic things; internet.

I have optical drives, but I only attach them when I need them.
I might get them their own usb cases, or at least that's what I tell myself whenever I use one.

it's nice to have when you need it, like when your wifi card comes with a driver disc

Just download the driver to your phone and transfer it via usb or something, what the fuck?

you can just as easily put the driver on removable media

sure but it's easier to just use the included disc

If you use it, even only occasionally: no, it's not retarded.
If you don't use it at all, but it's still drawing power: yes, of course.

Yes if you have the 5.25" bay occupied with hardware you hardly use. I know it's not everyone's situation with their desktop, but the space is better used for more storage or another peripheral.

I keep a external drive around. My biggest complaint is they dont seen to make cheap enclosures for the 5 1/4" drives anymore... My current one is only IDE, so my snazzy bluray burner/HD-DVD reader(from an old build) is sitting naked cause the Sata enclosures all cost $60+.

>is it retarded to have something you need?
Is this /b/?

legacy support? old games? pirating old movies? burning backups? cheap permanent media storage?

nowadays an internal optical drive isn't really necessary anymore unless you back up important stuff or stuff like downloaded anime into DVD-Rs.

and even then, you can use an external, USB optical drive for that. so internal optical drives are basically extinct.

>more storage
>another peripheral

What the fuck are you talking about, if you have space problems because of a optical drive you need a bigger case for sure. And if your a power user, you definitely are not going to have a small case were a fucking optical drive becomes a problem.

You are talking out of your ass, sorry but these arguments are a joke.

I have one in my desktop because I still have some dvds i watch sometimes and I'd rather save some powerpoint space then use a crappy old dvd player. Watching Farscape right now so I'm happy.

I don't have these problems because I don't use obsolete optical drives. Go to bed user

I still have a collection of DVDs and BRs that I've been too lazy to put on my HDDs, so yeah. But then again, I haven't watched anything for probably a year or so.

You should never be using the drivers that come on the disc anyway.

In most cases: Yes.
I do have an external USB DVD Burner around, in case I should ever need one.

Yes. I have an external one I use as needed.

You are shit and need to go and stay go.

It's a waste of space and adds unnecessary cables to the system these days.

How often do you use CDs? If it's not at least once a week, you're better off with an external one to use every now and then.

the drivers on included DVDs are and have always been extremely outdated. I wouldn't use them unless there is absolutely no other way.

Records and audio cassette are hot shit this decade. Audio CD's will be all the rage in the 20's and Blu-Ray in the 30's. Think of yourself as a hipster early adapter.

SO GLAD THESE STUPID THINGS ARE OBSOLETE

OKAY!

No

This

dvd is the primary method of data transfer for anything without a botnet connection

>not embracing superior light drives
>stuck on physical media
stay pleb

What if your USB drivers don't work? It's rare now days but it happens.

No, I use my blu-ray drive regularly to burn pirated games, music, and other media on discs as a form of long term back up. FUCK paying for digital
I wish r&d on discs never stopped, we would have 1tb+ discs with much faster read and write speeds than blu-ray.

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Terry was killed because he knew he powerful optical media is and why we need it now more than ever
I thought of marketing campaign the Blu-ray association could use to sell more blu-rays. They could advertise it as a way to free yourself from the cloud. A commercial would have some person that has a cloud over their head that they can't get away from but a blu-ray comes and makes the cloud go away and the guy looks to the viewer and says in a cool voice "free yourself from the cloud"

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Fuck, I miss Terry.

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what about installing an operating system

wait
this is really what terry said?
no wonder you clowns loved him.

Vaporware optical discs have been able to get much closer to their claimed capacity early in developer than any other supposed formats such as those glass crystals that are supposed to be able to hold hundreds of terabytes yet they have only been able to fit books on them despite more r&d than optical discs have gotten in a long time.

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I still burn MP3 CDs occasionally to play in my 2012 car.

I own one because it's still working after all those years, there's a 5.25" bay in my case for it anyway and it's nice to have, just in case.

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Not if you have a use for an optical drive. This should be obvious.

I burn games onto CD and DVD all the time.

I use mine to rip mah music CDs

Online is king.

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I have 4 optical drives in my Pentium 4 bc Yes. Shit weights like 500lbs btw

USB

the only reason to have a optical drive is one with SACD support if your using the computer as a silent audio station or a bluray drive if you live in some remote plate where you can buy movies for 5$ but internet is shit. its like 0.001% of the world population.,

my PC is a media station
being able to watch BDs from it is essential
being able to install games vom DVDs is essential
being able to listen to music CDs is essential
what else would I use a PC for?

I emulate my PS2 games from the discs

thats very justed

I rip old dvds for the non-Netflix people.

Universal Serial Bus
Known As USB Faggot

>Is it retarded
It's not. It literally costs next to nothing

are you fucking 80, grandpa?

just get one of those, they're dirt cheap and you can keep them in your drawer for that one time in 3 years when you actually need it

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>they don't rip hundreds of CD albums monthly to FLAC
>they think that optical drives are really obsolete and that the lack of them in new PCs and laptops is not just an effect of leftist progressivist cloud computing propaganda to boost up spotify/netflix streaming media market
ITT: reddit/discord/apple manchilds and 12yo social media gayming kids

I use my laptop as a CD drive connected via Ethernet to my PC. I still use DVDs for backups.

I have a Blu-ray reader in my desktop. Own a very large physical media collection of anime, movies, and music and I need something that can rip it all. I'm actually about to spend $100 or so on a really good UHD 4k Blu-ray capable drive soon. I also burn backup discs of drivers, OS ISO's, and really important documents + family photo type stuff.
>Inb4 just use an external HDD / flash drive!

I do and I still burn discs here and there. Have lost flash drives and have also had external disks fail on me entirely requiring a complete disassembly and praying that recuva can get stuff back.

I have no optical drive since 2012.
Needed it twice for some shit.
Got a portable one from a friend.

I still own the very first DVD Burner i bought around 2003(?), and it still works. Though, there is just no case to use it, so why would i want to put it into my case?

>Muh streaming
The thing I absolutely hate about streaming is that with such a model, you pay your whole life and yet own nothing in the end.
Can't have a local copy, service dies you lose access, internet down for whatever reason you lose access.

external is retarded, if new PC cases won't have 5,25" bay then i'd rather spend fortune on custom PC case manufactured for my request rather with 5,25" bay than act like pleb and buy external crap

This, read my post above: It's the effect of cloud computing & streaming lobbying that we don't have optical drives in new laptops
inb4 tinfoil hat

and why should I bother if I haven't even used an optical drive this year, last year once iirc

Call me old fashioned but I prefer to have my software on physical media, fuck the online only subscription based future.

Stop kvetching and subscribe

You can easily flash your USB.

I haven't used an optical drive in years

USB thumb drives work better and you can download/stream everything instead

They still need to make them for console games and movies, maybe Sony will make something new for the PS5.

reddit

This.
Optical media won't die at least until consoles stop using it

I'd rather buy a car to own it than to rent it from someone else.
Same with computing - i'd rather own everything on CDs/DVDs/BDs and HDDs than to "stream" everything from the cloud like some socialist commie pleb.

>He doesn't want potential censorship to bar him access from his softwares and movies

terry is not dead

you could probably get pretty low per unit prices with 32gb usb drives in bulk. cartridges are coming back

>32gb usb drives in bulk
The issue is that they know a game burned on a bluray will last from release day of the console to release day of the next gen and beyond.
How long can you trust a USB drive that has to be used each time you wanna play a game?

Console games are more around 50GB now and probably will be more for a new generation.

Console games install to the drive and the drive just spins at a low speed to confirm you have the disc in the console.

I like to go the extra mile on my desktops. Little costly but great when you like to swap drives without having to move around towers and whatnot.

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Jesus Christ Boomer. In 1999 we had USB install, ever heard of it?

>USB to install OS
>2018
>Have to format your USB stick to FAT32

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Consoles will be digital only in a gen or two
A lot of console players will switch to PC and exclusively pirate when that happens. I know a few who have already switched since they know digital only consoles are inevitable.

It’s not just consoles, I don’t think you can stream Blu-Ray quality movies on any service.

You're wrong.
Muh Netflix gives me 4k with the video bitrate of a DVD.
Isn't that great?

M-Disc is by far the best archival format we have and that is why it's important to keep giving the option for drives.
HDD and Tape are susceptible to magnetic interference, and while offering much higher storage capacity, for absolutely vital archival M-DISC will give much more assurance that the data will stay exactly as burned.

it's also encoded in a format that is exponentially more efficient per bit than DVD's MPEG-2

At that point "efficient" doesn't even begin to describe it.
It's literally the mp3 of video (with all its downsides)

USBlets be like "just flip my bits up"

They know nothing, that's why IT systems stagnate.

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The only purpose is to swap the dvd drive on a laptop for a 2.5 HDD adapter

They're better for archiving relatively small amounts of data. Optical discs are more reliable that flash drives.

BASED TERRY
The king will always be with us....digitally.

>1TB of dual layer BD-R is ~$50
>External HDDs are $20/tb
There's a reason development has stopped and nobody uses BR for data storage

Other than tightening the tracks, slapping on more layers and pushing the laser to a slightly higher blue frequency, there's not much else you can do with them other than to create a new optical disc that uses UV rays. CDs began at ~650 MB and ended at ~700 MB since manufacturers found out that you can take advantage of the fairly loose tolerance requirements of the tracks and push them closer together but that's it. DVDs started at 4.7 GB and it's still at 4.7 GB for single layer and 8.5 for dual layer.

you probably take the spare tyre out of your car you fucken imbecile

I still rip Blu-rays, so no.

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I would rather keep it inside of my computer case than in a drawer

>2018
>being a zoomer
>not owning anything
>everything is streamed

I find it disgusting how these streaming """""services"""""" are allowed to falsely advertise as HD when even their most premium plan is a fraction of the bitrate of a regular blu-ray, let alone UHD blu-ray
It isn't fair to blu-ray