Itt: obsolete technology you will never stop using

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i use it to rip cds to flac

my hand for fapping - still better than the fleshlight.

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>DVD
That's a Blu-Ray drive.

how is that obsolete? You can rip CDs, burn CDs, RIP high quality movies, burn high quality movies, the fuck?

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>books
>Not a technology
We got a retarded one here.

Most new pc cases do not include 5 inch bay = obsolete.

CRT

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>Most
Prove it.

Hit: even if you did (you can't), that's not what "obsolete" means, you dumb memester.

I never had a blu ray drive, just went straight from dvd to streaming/downloading.

same

>the book is not a technological product
>the book press is not technology.

New level of brainlet.

Never have adopted bluray yet but I still use a DVD burner drive. I have kept decades worth of cd and dvd media and sometimes still use them. Hell my entire physical movie collection is still on DVD and I don't have any other player for them.

Before we get into an endless cycle of moving goal posts, what would be an acceptable criterion for you to accept that optical media is obsolete?

>obsolete technology
>never stop using it
That's not what obsolescence mean

>high quality
Lmfao. Get your eyes checked, gramps.

Ya this

>books
>not technology
are you fucking retarded? because you sound fucking retarded right now

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my hand

I still back-up to blu-rays

They're safer than HDDs

>one weirdo still records TV to vhs
>vhs is not an obsolete technology

This

A little while ago I was shopping for gaymen headsets and had to go out of my way to find one that used a 3.5mm instead of USB. Why are companies trying to kill off the 3.5mm?

Too reliable

What's the proper way to store Blu-rays so that they last longer than HDD's? Or are HDD's already so brittle that it doesn't make a difference?

kek, idiot

I can "sort of" understand phones for space and possibly waterproofing reasons but we have plenty of space in our ATX towers, no reason not to have it.

Kys asap

>What's the proper way to store Blu-rays
By placing them in some manner of container and then storing that container in a cool, dark, and dry place; like most things.

HDDs have mechanical parts and those mechanical parts tend to degrade with time and/or use. Keeping a bunch of unplugged HDDs in a cool, dark and dry place will probably see them lasting quite a while so long as you only plug them in whenever you're going to add or retrieve data, but discs don't have any mechanical parts and so long as your blu-rays aren't the super cheap Chinese variety will probably last you a couple decades.

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It's objectively not, so whatever fancies your memester taste, faggot.

Obsolete - No longer produced or used

>Book
>Not a technology
You do realize that 'technology' doesn't just include electronics, right, retard? Just about everything Humans created is technology.

I'm glad I haven't used physcial media in more than 15 years now. lol

are there any brands you recommend? I always went for memerex back when I couldn't afford external HDD's and used DVD's to hoard all my shit, but I don't know if they're considered good

I have a huge collection of 12 inch laserdiscs. If you like anime, the Japanese releases were the most lavish treatment of physical media ever - huge $1000 boxsets with 12 inch original art.

image is the Urusei Yatsura 50 disc set that cost $3600 back in the 90s - you can get one for less than $100 in Japan now.

The evangelion movie box is nuts as well.

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Do you realize that books are still produced and used? Therefore, they are not obsolete. Also, the printing press was technology for producing books.

Technology - the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry

Do you walk around with a badge of honor pinned to your shirt claiming how woke you are for not using physical media? Does it help you pick up the ladies? Do you have a virtual fedora too? Just curious.

I laugh everytime I see hardware come with disks. Surely it'd be cheaper to just provide 500mb flash drives with the drivers on them right?

Still manufactured in large scale.
Still being developed on.
Major share in final sales of games and movies.

By your """"logic"""" LTO tapes and HDDs are obsolete because they're markets with a lower revenue and are older technology, a conclusion that is absolutely ridiculous.

Next you'll tell us home theaters are obsolete because soundbars are newer and sales are increasing every year.

Get fucking serious.

> bluray
> obsolete
what a fucking dumb cunt.

>year 2018 + 3/365
>anyone producing 500 MB flash just for the sole purpose of sticking it in USB drive to deliver drivers

>I laugh everytime I see hardware come with disks.
probably because you're more retarded than op. but thanks for using a tripcode so i can filter your future retard shitposting.

please stop tempting me...

Hi tripfag friendo

>1TB on a single platter
>does 160MB/s or so
>extremely reliable
>47 dollars

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but you can put cool stuff in 5.25 bays like fan controllers and hot swap bays

optical media has not once become obsolete. today, bluray is used constantly for video and data. i can still buy hundreds of dvd-rw. even dvd is still alive. how retarded are you exactly? was it car accident? birth defect?

no, cd's are ridiculously easy to make, just a pressed film of aluminium glued to a disc of plastic, probably single-digit cents in bulk

It has to get to where it's universally accepted as worse for every possible application like the case is with VHS. As far as optical media is concerned, CD's are still the best quality for digital audio, though properly recorded and maintained vinyl has even higher audio quality than that, so despite the two formats no longer being the average normie's go-to for music, they're still very viable which makes them not obsolete.

that retard tripfag does not understand basic economics.

CD pressing is still practically free compared to shipping a flash drive and that matters for cheap shit like a PCIe device, USB drives are shipped for stuff like motherboards or NUC-like PCs

This
They do produce 512MB drives but for stuff that does ship with a USB drive its usually 4GB-8GB

HDD's are still cutting edge fag

20TB HAMR this year for much lower cost than SSD.

>though properly recorded and maintained vinyl has even higher audio quality than that
> comparing an analogue to digital media
vinyl sucks cock. i've been buying them for 30+ years. cd is far superior at any level.

does the 12 inch laserdisc player run on open-source firmware?

>even has a higher quality than that
CDs have a hard 96db SnR. The best r2r playback only has a theoretical maximum of 70db.

A CD cost pennies. Or barely a penny in huge quantities. A USB flash drive cost an order of magnitude more, even in bulk.

Also, it's not unreasonable to expect a customer to buy an external optical drive if NEEDED, they're LESS than $20.

And those discs are there as a last resort, and also as a "safeguard" in case of a lawsuit claiming the manufacturer/supplier provided a non-functional or incomplete product.

t. Former international commercial law and consumer rights specialist for 8 years.

Keep getting drivers on mini-cds always download the actual driver though - none of my current machines even have a place to plug one of these in. I'll probably rip out and save the one desktop one of these I have when the computer goes kaput.

I am aware they're getting larger and larger, but the price to GB is the only real reason to use it, thet are essentially obsolete because SSDs are better.

Hard drives also haven't gotten any faster, all the large capacity ones are 5400 RPM, which sucks, and my 1TB blue still is fast because one platter and 7200 rpm. So yes, getting a fast drive bigger than 1TB is where SSDs take it.

God damn it, i gear tearful every time i think of mini disc, i miss that shit so much.

>for much lower cost than SSD
Why won't this meme die
No one uses SSDs for bulk storage except for idiots
It amazes me how much anons use the excuse of "lol hdds are lower price per GB" as a reason not to touch an SSD

Shit
meant for

SSDs are a meme, have fun replacing them every 10 years

>tfw my 512GB 850 PRO SSD is refurbished

I regret spending the $90 for it, should've gotten dual WD10EZEX drives in RAID0 or one for storage and boot.

haha

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You are arguing a point nobody is making dip shit. Obsolescence is based on the use case which includes price.

Also SSD's are not for cold storage either, so add that to your list as well. HDD's are here to stay for much longer whether you like it or not.

so is something only obsolete if it's no longer being mass produced? like VHS?

refer to

We need something thunderbolt-ish

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so basically not most of the things in this thread. got it

>obsolete because SSDs are better.

Get a load of this retard kek

They are better as boot drives that much is for sure but not too much else

They only stopped making Betamax tapes in the last year or two, so it was not obsolete until then. What a run - the first beta player was 1975 and built into a TV.

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Optical media was specifically designed to make money for the music and movie industries. I’m glad physical media is dead.

>faster and more reliable
>literally better in almost every way

microsoft windows

Those books scratch the fuck out of your discs.

I really jate how they got rid of sigret lighters in new cars

Literally every HD I had got mechanical issues, you can’t toy around with these shits if you have one in a laptop or a external HD that you use daily in various places. If you are a fat fuck neckbeard who isn’t going anywhere from his house a HD is fine, but I only buy SSDs nowadays.
0 fucking problems using 2 Sandisk SSDs from 2014, while 3 broken pieces of shit clackity-clack HDs dead (2 Toshiba, 1 Seagate)

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So it's better the industry sell intangible digital shit vs them actually having to sell something physical?

try not dropping your shit chink HDDs

Fucking nice. That box photo just brought back so many fond memories.

I really hate smokers who don’t know what an ash tray is and flip their cigarette butts everywhere. So I guess we’re even.

Who said anything about buying it?

Are you sure those weren't Betacam tapes, not Betamax?

>Seagate
>chink
are you mentally retarded for any casual?

HDDs, in general, are fairly vulnerable against movement. You're really better off using solid state for stuff you lug around constantly.